This state, populated by prospectors looking for gold, was admitted to the Union as a result of the Compromise of 1850
California
The name of the law that forced Northerners to return runaway slaves
Fugitive Slave Act
What Lincoln was doing when we has assassinated
Watching a play
The side that had an industrial-based economy
The Union
John Brown was a radical abolitionist who took what action against pro-slavery individuals in Kansas?
Cut them to pieces with a sword
The Missouri Compromise (1820) established a line, above which, slavery could not spread. It also allowed this northeastern state into the Union as a free state to balance Missouri's entry as a slave state
Maine
What Preston Brooks did to abolitionist senator Charles Sumner, after Sumner gave a speech against slavery.
Beat him with a cane
The result of Lincoln's election for senator of Illinois
He lost
The side fighting that had an agricultural-based economy
The Confederacy
The term for the secret network of anti-slavery activists, who aided escaped Enslaved Peoples to reach freedom
The Underground Railroad
The term used to describe giving an opponent what they want in order to avoid a conflict
Appeasement
This supreme court case, named for an enslaved man seeking his freedom, led to the decision that the US Government had no power to stop the spread of slavery
Dred Scott (v. Sandford)
The name of the Confederate sympathizer who killed Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
This side had strong civilian support, as the war was fought in their territory
The Confederacy
William Lloyd Garrison protested slavery by burning publicly what?
The U.S. Constitution
The Compromise that the Fugitive Slave Act came from
The Compromise of 1850
Named for two states that were created from it, this act made the Missouri Compromise line obsolete by allowing for Popular Sovereignty in the states (right to vote on legality of slavery)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
How Lincoln avoided assassination when traveling to his Presidential Inauguration
He wore disguises
The term used to describe a type of warfare that does not take into consideration the needs or concerns of civilians. It's main focus is winning the war through harsh tactics
Total War
Abolitionists and pro-slavery forces clashed in the midwest. What is the name of this event (named for the state where it took place)?
Bleeding Kansas
The effect that the Compromise of 1850 had on Washington DC's slave trade
It banned it
This state seceded first, and sparked the Civil War by attacking a federal fort located within it
South Carolina
The reason Lincoln was able to win his presidential election in 1860, despite not being the most popular candidate
He faced divided opposition
The attack on this fort by Confederate forces led to the beginning of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
The name for the formal abolition of slavery, issued by Lincoln
The Emancipation Proclamation