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Let's Compromise
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Important People
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Mixed Bag
100

This law prohibited slavery in the territories of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

Northwest Ordinance

100
This state had the highest number of casualties per capita during the Civil War due to unrest before the war.
Kansas
100
Led a Slave rebellion that prompted the south to pass slave codes.
Nat Turner
100
Rights and powers held by the states vs. the federal government
States Rights
100
This State was the first to succeed during the Civil War.
South Carolina
200
This compromise repealed the Compromise of 1820 and relied on the principle of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
200
This western state surprisingly was admitted as a free state in 1850. 
California
200
Wrote the fictional novel Uncle Tom's Cabin that focused on the inhumanity of the slavery sytem.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
200
Determined by the will of the people
Popular sovereignty
200
What caused many southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America?
The election of Abraham Lincoln
300
The failed proposal sought to prohibit slavery in territories acquired from the Mexican-American War.
Wilmot Proviso
300
The party weakened and split prior to the Civil War.
The Democratic Party
300
Became the President of the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis
300
Established that people of African heritage could not be citizens
Dred Scott Case
300
Laws that prevented slaves from reading and writing and required all African-Americans to have a pass when travelling.
Slave Codes
400
This restricted slavery north of the 36'30 parallel in the Louisiana Territory.
Th Missouri Compromise
400
The party that nominated Abraham Lincoln for president.
The Republican Party
400
The most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
400
When Americans become overly loyal to a section of the country.
Sectionalism
400
The south wanted what document changed to protect slavery.
The Constitution
500
This compromise included the Fugitive Slave Law.
The Compromise of 1850
500
A fort in South Carolina where the first shots were fired by Abner Doubleday that started the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
500
Stopped the south from seceding in the 1830's with the Force Bill.
Andrew Jackson
500
A network of escape routes to help slaves run away to freedom in the north.
Underground Railroad.
500
This state practices slavery but remained part of the Union. (4 options)
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri