People
The most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
The first capital of the confederacy was?
Montgomery
What law only needed a person to claim an African American was a runaway slave, which then resulted in the African American being taken back into slavery?
The Fugitive Slave Act
When did the Civil War begin?
April 12, 1861
What book written about slavery conditions, do many historians consider one of the causes of the Civil War? ______
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Won the Presidential Election of 1856
James Buchanan
By Feb 1, 1861 the states of South Carolina, Mississippi, ________, Alabama, Georgia, _______ and Texas had all voted to secede from the union.
Florida/Louisiana
In the Dred Scott Decision the Supreme Court of the US, ruled in favor of Scott's owner, with the opinion that ________.
Scott was an African American and therefore was not a citizen
What became a political issue itself and further intensified the sectional conflict rather than removing the issue of slavery in the territories from politics as hoped? ______
The Dred Scott Decision
The discovery of gold in california led to 80,000 people moving to California. These settlers were known as _______
49ers
Who won the election of 1860?
Abe Lincoln
Which Upper South state seceded from the Union upon President Lincoln calling for 75,000 troops?
Virginia
Northern whigs who were linked to southern cotton were called ______ whigs.
Cotton
What was the outcome of the Gadsden Purchase?
The United States bought an area of land in southern New Mexico and Arizona from Mexico for $10 million dollars.
Why did President Polk believe no one would take slaves to the Southwest? ______
The climate would not support plantations
Jefferson Davis
Where did the first battle of the Civil War take place?
Fort Sumter
This party agreed that slavery should not be permitted in the territories.
Republican
John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry in Virginia hoped to accomplish this? _______
Arm slaves and begin a rebellion against slaveholders.
The opening of Oregon and admission of California to the Union convinced Americans to connect the West Coast to the rest of the country with?
Transcontinental Railroad
After the issue of the Wilmot Proviso, this senator came out with the idea of popular sovereignty?
Lewis Cass
The dissolution of the Union began in this state where anti-Northern secessionist sentiment had long been intense:
South Carolina
What amendment did Crittenden's Compromise attempt to add to the constitution?
The Guarantee of slavery where it already existed.
What did David Wilmot propose in his Wilmot Proviso? _______
That any territory gained from Mexico would not have slavery.
_______ allowed slavery in Kansas
LeCompton Constiution