The Fugitive Slave Act
Breaking in the Union
Compromise of 1850
The Dred Scott Decision
Election of 1860
100
The Fugitive Slave Act
What was a federal crime to help out run away slaves?
100
Secession
What is the act of formally withdrawing from the Union?
100
Five
How many main parts of the compromise did Henry Clay propose?
100
Dred Scott
Who is the slave that was working for an army surgeon?
100
Democrats.
What was the first party to meet, to nominate a presidential candidate?
200
Slaveholders and their agents
What was the act in which these people could take suspected fugitive slaves before U.S. commissioners?
200
Lincoln would move to abolish.
What is a fear of many southern whites?
200
The Missouri Crisis of 1819-1820 and the Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833
What did Henry Clay settle?
200
Roger Taney
Who is the Chief Justice of Supreme Court, who came from a slaveholding family in Maryland?
200
The party split in two.
When northern and southern members could not agree, what happened?
300
Anthony Burns
Who caught the nation's attention?
300
South Carolina's legislate called for a convention.
What is the event that occurs 4 days after Lincoln's election?
300
Senator William Seward
What is the senator who spoke for antislavery northerners?
300
African American were not citizens under the U.S. constitution.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
300
Senator Stephen Douglas.
Who did the northern democrats chose?
400
$1,000 fine
What is the fine for anyone who hid or helped a runaway slave?
400
December 17, 1860
What day did the convention open?
400
Because he was dying.
Why did another senator read Calhoun's speech?
400
That it was unconstitutional.
What did Taney think of the Missouri Compromise Restriction on slavery north of the 3630'?
400
Current Vice President John C. Breckinridge.
Who did the southern democrats back up?
500
Canada
What is the place where African Americans escape potential prosecution?
500
John J. Crittenden
What is the senator of Kentucky who proposed a series of constitutional amendments to satisfy the South?
500
That letting California enter as a free state would destroy the balance between the two sections of the country.
What did Calhoun argue?
500
They feared the spread of slavery would not stop with the federal territories.
What did northerners fear?
500
The Constitutional Union Party.
What was the new political party?
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