Growing Tensions Over Slavery
Compromises Fail
The Crisis Deepens Category
The Coming of the Civil War
Key Terms and People
100
Proposed by Henry Clay; passed through congress. Created the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
100
Some free African-Americans fled to where after the Compromise of 1850.
What is Canada?
100
This Supreme Court decision declared that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
100
A southern attack on this fort kick started the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
A war is between two parties initially from the same country.
What is a Civil War
200
Southerners feared this state entering the union because they would no longer have an equal say in slavery.
What is California?
200
This state was called "_______ _______" because of all the violence that occurred there due to slavery. *think of John Brown
What is Bleeding Kanas?
200
His opposition to the Kanas-Nebraska Act brought him back into politics.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
Lincoln sent food to federal troops at this fort.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
Wrote the bestseller book "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
A proposal to keep slavery out of all states from the Mexican-American War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso
300
The Southerners called this book "propaganda".
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
The main goal of this party founded in 1854 was to stop slavery from spreading into the Western Territories.
What is the Republican Party?
300
The year the Civil War ended.
What is 1865?
300
The idea that the people in a territory would decide whether or not they wanted slavery to be legal.
What is Popular Sovereignty
400
Fueled the fight over slavery in 1858.
What is the land received from the Mexican-American War?
400
The Northerners hated the Fugitive Slave Act because it made them feel like they were ...
What is participating in the slave trade?
400
This party spilt apart in 1854 and fed members to the new antislavery Party.
What is the Whig Party?
400
This was the first state to secede from the union.
What is South Carolina?
400
Filled a lawsuit against his master for being a slave in a free state.
Who is Dred Scott?
500
Not a state; slavery was banned there in 1850.
What is the District of Columbia?
500
Fought against Compromise of 1850 but died; after his death the compromise passed.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
500
This major African American leader said that the Dred Scott decision gave him brighter hopes.
Who is Fredrick Douglas?
500
He was the Constitutional Union candidate for the election of 1860.
Who is John Bell?
500
Supreme Court Justice; announced decidtion regarding African American slave rights in free states.
Who is Roger B. Taney?
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