Sticky Darts
"Bleeding Kansas"
What put the issue of slavery to popular vote?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What event included the Fugitive Slave Act?
Compromise of 1850
What was the line that marked the division between slave states and non-slave states?
36 30' North Latitude
Who was a violent abolitionist?
John Brown
What called for the banning of slavery in any lands U.S. acquired from Mexico?
Wilmot Proviso
What was a pro-slavery activist who crossed the Kansas border to vote?
Border ruffians
Arsenal
Which case said that the Supreme Court decision showed the Constitution protected slavery?
Dred Scott
Who led the raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va.?
John Brown
President Lincoln was largely unknown before which election?
1858 congressional election
The issue of ____________ created a break in the Democratic Party during the 1860 presidential election.
slavery
Which event marked the beginning of the Civil War?
attack on Fort Sumter
Who did Lincoln have 7 debates against while running for senator of Illinois?
Stephen A. Douglas
What does abstain mean?
choose not to vote
Who believed that neither Congress nor local governments had the authority to ban slavery from a territory?
John C. Calhoun
Lincoln and __________ other candidates ran for president in 1860.
3
After the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency, the Southern states debated the question of ___________, or withdrawing from the Union.
secession
Which was the first state to vote to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis