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100
Who was elected president of the United States in 1860 which caused many in the south to be angry?
Abraham Lincoln
100
In 1854, Congress passed a law that allowed settlers in these territories to decide for themselves what to do about slavery, a concept known as popular sovereignty. What territories were these?
Kansas and Nebraska
100
The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all tried to settle what problem?
Slavery
100
To withdraw/ to leave

Secede

100

Why was the Kansas-Nebraska Act proposed?

To expand the railroad to California.

200

Who was an extreme abolitionist and tried to start a rebellion at Harper's Ferry?

John Brown

200

Which state challenged the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

California.

200

A proslavery government sent a group to find the antislavery government to arrest but they were gone. This group decided to ransack the place. What is the name of this event?

Sack of Lawerence

200

A crime betraying one's country.

Treason

200

Who was involved in the caning in congress? 

Preston Brooks, relative of Butler, caned Charles Sumner because of his comment about Butler.

300
Who was Jefferson Davis?
President of the Confederacy
300
Which part of the country felt that state governments should have more power than the federal government?
South
300
The Fugitive Slave Law required people to do what (even if they disagreed with slavery)?
Return runaway slaves to their owners.
300

To end.

Abolish

300

What political party was created before the 1856 Presidential election? 

Republican party (split from the Whig party)

400

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

400

What two states entered the Union in the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

Missouri-slave state

Maine-free state

400

The Dred Scott decision was a blow to the abolitionist movement. What was the ruling?

The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were property and not citizens.

400

Popular sovereignty

The right of people to make political decisions for themselves by voting.

400

Which political party split in the 1860 election?

Democratic party (Northern & Southern)

500

Who debated for the senate seat in Illinois?

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas

500

Name the first state to secede.

South Carolina

500

This law, passed in 1820, created an invisible line across the US; north of the line would be free, south would be slave.

The Missouri Compromise or the Compromise of 1820.

500
Series of routes used by slaves to escape the south.

Underground Railroad

500

Name the 4 parts of the Compromise of 1850.

1. Abolished slave trade in DC.

2. Granted Cali as a free state

3. Created Utah & New Mexico Territory with popular sovereignty.

4. Created the Fugitive Slave Act.