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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
What was the sentiment (or feeling) about slavery in the North?
Against it.
100
What was the feeling about slavery in the south?
For it.
200
Who was vehemently against slavery and tried to start a rebellion at Harper's Ferry?
John Brown
200
How did the Fugitive Slave Law effect White Americans in the north?

It forced them to report runaway slaves or be fined/sent to prison

200

In the Compromise of 1850, each side got something. What did the North get and what did the South get?

North-California as a free state and no slave trade in Washington D.C. 

South-The Fugitive Slave Law

200

Though many farms still existed in the north, more and more of its economy was becoming based on what?

Manufacturing (or factories.)

200
What was much of the South's economy based upon?
Agriculture (or farming.)
300
Abraham Lincoln Debated Stephan Douglass in 1858. The debates became famous in terms of the two positions the men took on this topic.

What is slavery?


300
Which part of the country felt that state governments should have more power than the federal government?
South
300

John Brown was viewed very differently by the North and the South. Explain both viewpoints

North-Hero or Martyr

South-Villian/ Terrorist

300

Durring the Election of 1860, which candidate won all the Northern States?

Abraham Lincoln
300

One Southern state argument why they should be allowed to secede was the threat to their institution of slavery, what was another?

State's RIghts, Broken Compact

400

In the Lincoln Douglass debates, Douglass argued that slavery in the new territories should be decided by popular soverignty. What did Lincoln argue in relation to slavery in the new territories?

It should not be allowed to spread

400

This state got the nickname "Bleeding" because of all the bloodshed that took place there due to one law passed by Congress. It also served as a preview to the Civil War.

"Bleeding Kansas"

400

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

The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were property, no matter where their owners took them and since they weren't citizens, couldn't attempt to sue for their freedom

400
Describe what popular sovereignty is.
The right of people to make political decisions for themselves.
400
Name at least four states that seceded from the Union.
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas
500

What is Lincoln's main point to the South in his 1861 Inaugural Address? And what is one reason he gives to support this.

THey should stay a part of the Union, he won't touch slavery where it exists, and the evidence is there in his previous speeches that proves he won't get rid of it and views it as illegal to even if he wanted to.

500

According to the Missouri Compromise one state came in free, and the other came in as slave state. Which two states were they?

Missouri and Maine

500
This law, passed in 1820, established Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also 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

Name the book that convinced many in the North that slavery was wrong. Who wrote it, and why was it so effective?

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 

500

In their Declaration of Secession, Georgia argued that Southern states deserved equal rights to the new western territories. What did they use as a reason why they deserved equal status there, and why was it so important to them other than simply "slavery"

They shed blood and money in the wars to acquire the territories the same as the North did. It mattered in terms of representation in Congress and only allowing free states would create a Congress that could pass too many laws overpowering them and changing their way of life.