1820-1840
What was the name of the compromise that allowed the addition of two new states to the Union? One was a slave state and the other was a free state.
The Missouri Compromise
Which state was added to the Union with the Compromise of 1850?
California
Which act that was created in 1854, repealed the Missouri Compromise?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who lead a raid in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in hopes to arm the slaves with guns?
John Brown
What place was attacked on April 12, 1861?
Fort Sumter
Which state was able to join the Union as a slave state in 1821?
Missouri
What was the name of the law that allowed slave catchers and U.S. Marshals to capture blacks in the North and return them to slavery in the South?
Fugitive Slave Act
Which political party was destroyed as part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Whig Party
What is the name of a person, such as John Brown, that is fighting to end slavery?
abolitionist
Who attacked Fort Sumter?
The Confederates
Which state was able to join the Union as a free state in 1820?
Maine
In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a very important book in Maine. What was the name of the book?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Which political party was created because of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Republican Party
Who was elected President in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
Where was the capital of the United States of America?
Washington D.C.
The Missouri Compromise ______________ slavery north of the 36 degree latitude line in the Louisiana Territory.
prohibited
Who said, "So this is the little woman who started this great war!" about Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the slave, in 1857, that tried to sue for his freedom because he was living in a free territory?
Dred Scott
What did southern states start to do when Lincoln was elected?
secede or leave the Union
Where was the capital of the Confederate States of America?
Richmond, Virginia
Who led a rebellion in 1831 with 60 other slaves in Virginia?
Nat Turner
Which state created the Declaration of Causes in 1852 that claimed the federal government was violating its state's rights?
South Carolina
With the Dred Scott Decision, the U.S. Supreme Court said that no slave or descendant of a slave could be a what?
U.S. Citizen
Which state was the first to secede from the United States?
South Carolina
Who was elected as the first and only president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis