Social Studies 1
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
An bill that stated a person could be fined or imprisoned for aiding a fugitive slave.
Who was Lincoln's opponent during his election?
Stephen A Douglass
Why was the admission of Missouri as a slave state controversial in the senate?
it would upset the balance between free states and slave states.
Douglas stand that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholders rights came to be known as-------
THE FREEPORT DOCTRINE
----------- specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands that might be acquired from Mexico
THE WILMOT PROVISO
letting the people decide.
John Brown
What repealed the Missouri Compromise?
The Kansas- Nebraska Act.
who won the 1848 presidential election?
ZACHARY TAYLOR
--------- proposed amendments to protect slavery and was the senator from Kentucky who tried to save he union by proposing a last minute compromise
JOHN CRITTENDEN
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Who became the president in 1853?
Franklin Pierce
John C __________ was a republican candidate in 1856
FREMONT
Which party endorsed the Wilmot Proviso?
FREESOIL
The Dred-------- case ruled on by Roger B Taney was a supreme court decision that divided the nation even more
SCOTT
the enforcement of the fugitive slave act led to more anger in the-------
NORTH
What was the main topic of the Lincoln- Douglass debates?
slavery
The main issue in the election of 1844 was an annexation of ----------
TEXAS
in the congressional election of 1858, the senate race in which state was the center of national attention
ILLINOIS
southerners qualified declaration, This theory is called -------
STATE RIGHTS
Who proposed the Missouri Compromise?
Henry Clay
Who wrote the essay "Civil Disobedience"
Henry David Thoreau
Where was the first attack of the civil war?
FORT SUMTER
Who won the presidential election of 1860?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
_______ formed on February 4, 1860
THE CONFEDERACY