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Politics
Violence and Conflict
Tariffs and misc.
Slavery Disputes
100
Who won the election of 1860?

Abraham Lincoln

100

Who lead the raid on Harpers Ferry? (Weapons armory).

John Brown

100

What is a tariff?

Tax on imported goods. 

100

What was the fugitive slave act?

Made all people responsible for helping return escaped slaves. 
200

What is the name for the economic downturn that effected the whole world? Did it effect the North or South more?

Panic of 1857. North. 

200

What is the name of the violence that occurred as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska act?

Bleeding Kansas
200

What is the purpose of a tariff?

Encourage people to buy domestic goods.

200

Why was the North upset about the Fugitive slave act?

They felt like they had to take part in slavery.

300

What was the Missouri Compromise? List both parts.

Missouri slave state, Maine free state. 36-30 line. North free, South slave. 

300

Abolitionist newspaper writer murdered for his writing. 

Elijah Lovejoy

300

What is the name of the crisis in which South Carolina was upset about tariffs and attempted to secede from the union?

Nullification crisis.

300

Who was the slave who was taken to a free state and sued for his freedom?

Dred Scott

400
How did the South react to the election of 1860? why did they react that way?
Several Southern states seceded from the union. This was because they thought they were going to have their rights stripped away by the new president. 
400

The name for someone who dies for their beliefs and furthers their cause?

Martyr
400

What effect did Uncle Toms cabin have?

Showed people in the North (and some in the South) how bad slavery was.
400

How did enslaved peoples communicate with each other to get routes to freedom, what was this route to freedom?

Song, Underground railroad.

500

List the 5 compromises in the compromises of 1850, put a "N" or "S" to represent who it benefited.

California-N

Utah New Mexico- S

Fugitive Slave Act- S

Slave trade banned DC - N

Texas Border- S

500

What core principle was established to decide whether Kansas and Nebraska would be free states?

Popular Sovereignty (Popular vote)

500

Who was the first state to secede?

South Carolina

500

What rulings did the supreme court make in the Dred Scott case? List all 3

1. African Americans, free or slave, could not be US citizens.

2. 5th amendment rights protected slave owners "right to property"

3. Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.