Vocab
This means to break away:
What is secede?
This person took part in both the raid on Harper's Ferry and Bleeding Kansas as abolitionist who murdered pro-slavery backers and was later hung for treason:
Who was John Brown?
This 1854 act led to, "Bleeding Kansas", by allowing popular sovereignty decide slavery's fate in Kansas and Nebraska:
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Known as, "Moses", she was a former slave who was a conductor for the Underground Railroad:
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This is Mr. Enget's favorite MLB team:
Who are the Minnesota Twins?
These were laws that countered the Fugitive Slave Act by granting rights to escaped & free blacks:
What were personal liberty laws?
This was the site of first shots of the Civil War:
What is Fort Sumter, South Carolina?
The Compromise of 1850 created this law where all citizens were required to aid in apprehending runaway slaves:
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
Jefferson Davis was this:
What was the first president of the Confederate States of America?
This state was the first to secede after the election of 1860:
What is South Carolina?
This is popular sovereignty:
What was a political policy that permitted the residents of federal territories to decide on whether to enter the union as free or slave states?
After the Mexican War, this law stated neither slavery nor involuntary servitude would be allowed in new American territories:
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
This decision determined that slaves could not bring a suit into federal court and deemed the Missouri Compromise as unconstitutional:
What was the Dred Scott decision?
This slave sued for his freedom after his owner died, but was denied by the Supreme Court since he was not a citizen:
Who was Dred Scott?
This party strongly opposed strong government, championed state rights, and although divided, supported the expansion of slavery during the 1850's:
What is the Democratic Party?
This was the Underground Railroad:
What was a loosely-connected network of safehouses where black and white abolitionists helped escaped slaves find freedom and safety?
This is was a failed last-ditch attempt to keep the Union together by giving the South concessions to expansion of slavery into the territories:
What was the Crittenden Compromise?
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 stated this:
What was the prohibition of slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of Oklahoma, except Missouri?
Despite losing to Stephen Douglas in 1858 for the Illinois senate seat, this individual was the Republican Party's first presidential candidate and won the 1860 election to become the 16th U.S. President:
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This is our homecoming opponent for football:
Who is North Prairie?
This political party was established around an antislavery platform in 1854:
What is the Republican Party?
The biggest issue that led to the Civil War did surround slavery, but the South claimed this was the cause:
What is states' rights?
These were four provisions of the Compromise of 1850:
What was California was admitted as a free state, popular sovereignty would decide slavery in Utah/New Mexico, stricter Fugitive Slave Act, & the slave trade in Washington D.C. was outlawed?
This man supported popular sovereignty, debated Lincoln many times, and headed the Northern Democrats in the Election of 1860:
Who was Stephen Douglas?
These were the names of the two sides of the American Civil War:
What was the Union (North) & the Confederacy (South)?