Important People
The Nation's First Ever Republican President
Abraham Lincoln
This drew a line at coordinates 36' 30 across the Louisiana Territory, banning slavery North of the line forever. It also admitted Maine to the union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
The Missouri Compromise
This act allowed enslavers to travel to the Northern states to capture slaves who had escaped.
The Fugitive Slave Act
What did proslavery settlers do to the antislavery government settlers in Lawrence, Kansas, on May 21, 1856?
Attacked the community, burned a hotel, looted homes, and tossed the printing press of an abolitionist newspaper into the river.
What does the "house" represent in this statement made by Abraham Lincoln: "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
The "house" represents the Union
Praised as a martyr by Northerners, he was executed after the raid on Harper's Ferry
Abolitionist John Brown
The Fugitive Slave Act was the most important piece of the...
Compromise of 1850
Allowing local people to vote on slavery was called...
Popular sovereignty
What speech made by Senator Stephen Douglas drove Senator Preston Brooks to beat him bloody in the Senate?
"The Crime Against Kansas"
What is the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Preston Brooks beat this Senator with his cane in 1856...
Charles Sumner
An 1854 law, known as the Kansas-Nebraska Act, granted Kansas and Nebraska what right?
The right to decide if their territory would be a slave state
Angry citizens drove slave catchers out of this Northern city
Boston
As revenge for the attack on anti-slavery settlers in Lawrence, Kansas, this abolitionist invaded the town of Pottawatomie, Kansas, hacking five suspected slavery supporters to death with swords.
John Brown
What set of debates helped Lincoln become a national figure?
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Author of the 1851 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, that brought the horrors of slavery home to Northerners.
Harriet Beecher Stowe?
An 1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from the War with Mexico
The Wilmot Proviso
This agreement outlawed the slave trade in Washington DC
The Compromise of 1850
This enslaved man led a rebellion that killed 55 white people and pushed the Union closer to Civil War
Nat Turner
Who attacked Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, effectively starting the Civil War?
The Confederate States of America
An enslaved man who, in 1857, sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court.
Dred Scott
The Compromise of 1850 allowed what two territories to decide whether to allow slavery
New Mexico and Utah
Why were enslaved Africans trafficked to the Americas?
To provide free labor to enslavers
Who did John Brown intend to arm when he set out to seize the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry?
Enslaved people
The South secedes from the Union, after which political figure wins the presidency?
Abraham Lincoln