Slavery
Which controversial doctrine promoted that the people of a federal state could decide whether to join the union as a slave or free state?
Popular Sovereignty
What was the name of the proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War in 1846?
Wilmot Proviso
Which act allowed the people of two states to decide whether they would be a free or slave state?
Kansas Nebraska Act
Which female abolitionist was a leader in the Seneca Falls Convention and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Where was the Slave trade prohibited, but slavery upheld as a result of the Compromise of 1850?
Washington DC.
What act was 1/3 of the Compromise of 1850 and helped temporarily ease secession threats by forcing the North to assist southern states with capturing runaway slaves?
The Fugitive Slave Act
What was a proposal by the South to acquire Cuba as a territory with slavery?
The Ostend Manifesto
As a result of the Compromise of 1850, which territorial possession of the South was reduced?
Texas
What is the name of the female abolitionist and author whom is famous for the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What did this 1857 Supreme Court case officially state: Dred Scott v Sanford?
Denied the slave, Dred Scott, his request stating that no person of African decent could become a US citizen
What was the name of the movement to prohibit slavery from expanding to western territories following 1846?
Free Soil Movement
Which controversial election lead to Abraham Lincoln as president and triggered the secession of the South?
Election on 1860
What purchase costed America $10 million to acquire 30,000 square miles of land?
Gadsden Purchase
What was the name of the abolitionist who lead a slave revolt by capturing armories and giving armed weapons to slaves?
John Brown
What was one of the first radical newspapers that denounced slavery?
The Liberator
What was the name given to the ongoing violent conflict between Kansas and Nebraska?
Bleeding Kansas
What political platform did Abraham Lincoln originally campaign on and what did that platform advocate for?
Free Soil platform, which argued slavery should remain in its current state and not expand westward
Where was the northern barrier between America and Canada eventually decided on and why?
49th Parallel to avoid another war with Britain while fighting Mexico at the same time.
Who coined the term “Popular Sovereignty”?
Stephen A. Douglass
Who was the senator of South Carolina who first seceded from the Union?
John C. Calhoun
What amendment was originally passed by Congress but later ruled unconstitutional because it put restrictions on states as a condition to join the Union?
Tallmadge Amendment
What were the laws put in place by the North that were beneficiary to slaves who escaped the South and counteracted the Fugitive Slave Act?
Personal Liberty laws
What was the result of popular sovereignty in Kansas and how did this affect the relationship between the North and South?
Kansas became a free state and this elevated tensions between the North and South because the ratio of Free : Slave states became more unproportional.
What was the name of the argument the South made about slavery?
Positive Good
What act attempted to deal with issue of Native Americans by placing them on reservations and removing their tribal identities?
Dawes Act