Early Problems
References to slavery were struck from this founding document to gain Southern signatures.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
Compromises were needed when this was gained.
What is land?
This was the number of candidates running for president in 1860.
What was 4?
She was a famous conductor along the Underground Railway.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Lincoln was here on the political response spectrum.
What is a moderate?
Eli Whitney's invention that "saved" slavery.
What was the Cotton Gin?
This drew the 36ยบ-30' line.
What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
In 1860 this was the main political party of the North.
Who were the Republicans?
He and his sons caused Kansas to bleed.
Who was John Brown?
When John C. Calhoun said that slavery was a "positive good," he was being this
What was a conservative?
This was the year the first slaves were brought to British America.
What was 1619?
This compromise in the Constitution was NOT a statement about the humanity of slaves.
What was the 3/5 Compromise?
Lincoln's main political rival in 1858 and 1860.
Who was Stephen A. Douglas?
Beecher's Bibles
What were guns?
They might fight to spread slavery.
Who were reactionaries?
The fugitive slave clause in the Constitution lacked these?
What were teeth?
This nullified the Missouri Compromise.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
Most people who voted in the election did not do this.
What was vote for Lincoln?
Charles Sumner did this which nearly got him killed on the floor of the Senate.
What was give a speech?
Liberals believe that this institution could help end slavery.
What was the government?
Slavery was here during most of the Colonial period.
What was everywhere?
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act both involved this land.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
The main reason why the northern states had more people and hence more electoral votes.
What was immigration?
The Dred Scott decision said this about the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
John Brown and William Lloyd Garrison
Who were radicals?