Even though I lost the Senate race to Stephen Douglass, I made a huge impact on the country.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
100
An act that was a part of the Compromise of 1850, it gave slaveowners the right to enter free states to capture escaped slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
100
People in the territory or state would vote directly on issues, rather than having their elected representatives decide
What is popular soverignty
100
The Kansas-Nebraska Act lead to violence in this state
What is Kansas
200
I am a Senator from Kentucky who is known as the Great Compromiser and wanted to resolve the issues that bitterly divided northerners and southerners.
Who is Henry Clay
200
This act proposed that slavery in the new territories would be decided by popular soveirgnty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
200
to withdraw from
What is sesession
200
These helped Abraham Lincoln become well-known
What is the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
300
I am a South Carolina Senator who was against compromise and argued for States Rights.
Who is John C. Calhoun
300
This court case stated that slaves were property of their owners when a slave sued his owner for his freedom.
What is Dred Scott vs. Sandford
300
Runaway enslaved people
What is a fugitive
300
John Brown attempted to lead a slave revolt in this city.
What is Harpers Ferry
400
I am a Senator from Massachusetts who argued for compromise and wanted to end sectionalism.
Who is Daniel Webster
400
This preisdential candidate guaranteed the south that he would not interfere in the states where slavery currently existed, but the south was still against him.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
400
A war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country
What is civil war
400
South Carolina was the first to do this
What is seceed
500
I wrote a very controversial book that offended southerners and gave northerners a view of slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
500
This proposed that Congress ban slavery in all territory that might become part of the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso
500
False or misleading information that is spread to further a cause
What is propaganda
500
The bombing of this place is considered the start of the Civil War