This was the main issue separating the states prior to the Civil War.
What is slavery?
100
He was the leader of the largest slave rebellion.
Who was Nat Turner?
100
He was a slave who traveled with his master to Wisconsin and claimed that this act made him free.
Who was Dred Scott?
100
This is the fort that South Carolina rebels fired upon, marking the beginning of the Civil War.
What was Fort Sumter?
100
He was the president who believed that slavery was a moral issue.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
200
This amendment stated that Missouri could join the union, but only as a free state.
What is the Tallmadge Amendment?
200
This allowed California to be admitted as a free state and the southwestern territories to be set up with no restriction on slavery.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
200
He was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision.
Who was Roger Taney?
200
This state was the first to secede from the Union.
What was South Carolina?
200
This law stated that a runaway slave had almost no legal rights.
What was the Fugitive Slave Law?
300
During the Civil War, the north was called the ________.
What is the Union?
300
Her vision was of a slave being beaten to death by his master.
Who was Harriet Beacher Stowe?
300
This act was proposed to build a railroad to California.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
Someone who tried to escape from slavery was called ______.
What was a fugitive?
300
He won 40% of the votes in the election of 1860.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
400
This was the dividing line that was established on the Missouri and Arkansas border that made territory north of it free and south of it open to slavery.
What is the 36-30 parallel?
400
These territories were declared open to slavery under the Compromise of 1850.
What were Utah and New Mexico?
400
After the Dred Scott case, African Americans were told that they would never be _______.
What are citizens?
400
This is the act of withdrawing from a union.
What is secession?
400
This bill stated that any territory gained from the Mexican War would not be open to slavery.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
500
Congress's refusal to accept any more petitions about slavery.
What is the gag rule?
500
This state entered the union as a free state because of the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
500
This book enraged many northerners and changed their opinions about slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
500
It was hoped that this case would settle the issue of slavery once and for all.
What was the Dred Scott case?
500
Under this law Northerners were supposed to return runaway slaves to their masters.