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Reason the admission of Missouri as a slave state was controversial.
What is it would upset the balance in the Senate?
100
Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act led to this.
What is more anger in the North?
100
Stephen A. Douglas proposed letting people decide about slavery through this.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
The main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
What is slavery?
100
Theory used by Southerners to justify secession.
What is states' rights?
200
Plan that specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands that might be acquired from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
200
First territory to shed blood in a civil war over slavery.
What is Kansas?
200
Supreme Court decision that further divided the nation over the issue of slavery.
What is the Dred Scott case?
200
Presidential candidate of 1860 whose name did not appear on the ballot in most Southern states.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
This senator from Kentucky who tried to save the Union by proposing a last-minute compromise.
Who is John Crittenden?
300
This man won the election to the seat of U.S. Senator from Illinois after the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
300
Winner of the 1848 presidential election.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
300
Henry Clay's plan allowing California to enter the Union as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
Author of "Civil Disobedience"
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
400
Chief Justice who ruled on the Dred Scott decision.
Who is Roger B. Taney?
400
Stephen A. Douglas's response to slavery.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
400
This man proposed the Missouri Compromise.
Who is Henry Clay?
400
This was formed on February 4, 1861.
What is the Confederacy?
400
Violent abolitionist.
Who is John Brown?
500
Opponent of Abraham Lincoln in the election of 1860.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
500
Location of the first attack of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
500
President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
500
This repealed the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500
This man proposed amendments to protect slavery.
Who is John Crittenden?
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