Missouri Compromise
This state became a slave state in this compromise.
Missouri
This state was admitted as a free state under this compromise.
California
This is the name of the man who came up with the Act
Stephen Douglas
This is the state that Dred Scott was originally enslaved in.
Missouri
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
South Carolina
This state broke off from Massachusetts and became a free state.
Maine
Under this compromise, new territories were able to choose if slavery was allowed. This is known as _____________ _______________.
Popular sovereignty
The Kansas-Nebraska Act said that ____________ ______________ would be used to decide if slavery was allowed in the new states.
popular sovereignty
This is the state that Dred Scott and his owner moved to.
Illinois
This is the name of the nation that the states that seceded formed.
The Confederate States of America
The line of latitude was drawn in the western territories. Above the line was _____________, below the line was ________________.
Free, Slave
This was banned in the capital under this compromise.
The people who crossed the border from Missouri into Kansas, making it a slave state, are known as this.
Border ruffians
Enslaved
John Crittenden proposed that we amend the constitution, and put this former Compromise in place permanently
Missouri Compromise
This is the name of the man who came up with the Missouri Compromise
This law was passed to please the South, since the North had a law passed as well.
The Fugitive Slave Law/Act
This is the name given after violence broke out in the state of Kansas due to the results of the Kansas Nebraska Act.
Bleeding Kansas
The judge said that slaves were not American citizens. Instead, he said they were ________________.
Property
This is the name of the Fort that the Confederates took over, marking the start of the Civil War
An exaggerated loyalty to a particular region is known as ______________.
This is the name of the man who came up with this Compromise
Henry Clay
This is the name of the Congressman who was attacked by Preston Brooks after giving an hours long speech criticizing slave supporters during the events of Bleeding Kansas
Charles Sumner
This is the name of the judge in the Dred Scott case.
Roger B. Taney
When soldiers in the fort needed supplies, Lincoln sent a telegram to Jefferson Davis saying this is what he was going to do.
Send an unarmed expedition in with supplies. Union would not fire unless fired upon.