People
Politics
Politics 2
States
Vocabulary
100

Became the president of the Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis

100

Abolitionists sent petitions against slavery to Congress. What did the Southern representatives and senators convince other representatives to do? 

Ignore the petitions. 

100

Why did Americans want a transcontinental railroad? 

Connect eastern states with California

100

Both sides committed robberies and murder, burning down settlements and pillaging property. This was the result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. What was the account called? 

Bleeding Kansas

100

The power the slave owners held in both government and society

Slave-ocracy

200

He and his sons seized an arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Va

John Brown

200

Which side won the election of 1860? Democrats proslavery, Democrats against slavery, Republicans- anti-slavery.

Republican- anti slavery

200

Where did the Confederate States of America vote in their first/only president? 

Montgomery Alabama

200

What state was the first to secede from the Union? 

South Carolina

200

Bands of free-soilers who were armed

Jayhawkers

300

A slave in Maryland who escaped to freedom. An eloquent speaker; traveled the anti-slavery speaking circuit

Frederick Douglass

300

Who was president before Abraham Lincoln took office? 

James Buchannon 

300

What would the Kansas-Nebraska Act do? 

Divide Nebraska territory into two- Kansas and Nebraska. They would be organized without reference at all. They would use popular sovereignty for the slave question.

300

What state left the Union as a direct result of Lincoln asking for volunteers?

Virginia

300

Settlers from the Northeast that were antislavery

free soilers
400

The nominee for the Democrat party that rejected  a pro-slavery plank (platform).

Sen. Stephen Douglas

400

What were the last two federal forts in the Southern hands? 

Fort Pickens and Fort Sumter

400
Describe one of the plans for the transcontinental railroad: 


Stephen Douglas

Jefferson Davis

Douglas- Begin in St Louis- end in San Francisco

-in Northern part  would not attract Southerners

Davis- dream- a southern empire; begin in New Orleans and end in California

400

Which state did Lincoln use the army to jail pro southern legislators so that the state government could not vote for secession 

Maryland

400

An evil other than a moral evil or sin

material evil

500

Commander of Fort Sumter after succession; forced to surrender the fort after being bombarded. 

Major Robert Anderson

500

What act repealed the Missouri Compromise?

Kansas-Nebraska Act

500

Give three parts of the Compromise of 1850

California would be a free state

New Mexico and Utah would be slave states

Added fugitive slave law

Slavery would be abolished in DC.

500

Which states were called "border" states? 

Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri

500
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