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Mexican Cession and the Compromise 1850
Fugitive Slave Act & Anti-Slavery Literature
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Politics
Dred Scott & Harpers Ferry
100
What was the proposal to ban slavery in all of the Mexican Cession?
What is the Wilmot Proviso
100
Who was arrested under the Fugitive Slave Act that sparked an increase in the amount of people joining the abolition movement?
Who is Anthony Burns
100
Introduced, in 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act divided what region of land into two territories?
What is the Louisiana Purchase.
100
What Political Party was created, following the Kansas - Nebraska Act?
What is the Republican Party.
100
Was Dred Scott granted freedom following his Supreme Court trial?
What is no
200
What is the term is given to favoring the interests of a region over those of the country?
What is sectionalism.
200
Who determined whether or not a fugitive slave should be sent back to slavery or freed?
Who are the commissioners.
200
The Kansas - Nebraska Act eliminated what?
What is the 36° 30' line (Missouri Comprise)
200
In 1854 the Republican Party rallied around what issue?
What is the spread of slavery into the west.
200
What was the first question proposed by the Supreme Court, to determine the verdict in the Dred Scott Case?
Whether or not Dred Scott was a citizen.
300
This compromise ended the balance between the North and the South.
What is the Compromise of 1850.
300
Why were many Northerners horrified by the Fugitive Slave Act?
Because many free African Americans were being sent in to slavery.
300
What name was given to the act of destruction from the Pro-Slavery Legislation?
What is the Sack of Lawrence?
300
During the Lincoln - Douglas debates, Abraham Lincoln accused the Democrats of wanting to do what?
What is spreading slavery to the west.
300
What was the second question proposed by the Supreme Court, to determine the verdict in the Dred Scott Case?
Whether or not Scott's stay in the free states made him free?
400
Who wanted Congress to allow the south to be able to peacefully secede from the union?
What is John C. Calhoun
400
Where did Harriet Beecher Stowe hear stories about slavery?
What is Ohio
400
John Brown's response to the Pro Slavery's attack towards the Anti-Slavery Legislation is referred to as what?
What is the Pottawatomie Massacre.
400
What was the purpose of the Lincoln - Douglas debates?
What is to announce their candidacies to the people. (introduce themselves to the public)
400
What was the third question proposed by the Supreme Court to answer the verdict of the Dred Scott Case?
Whether or not Congress had the right to prohibit slavery in federal land.
500
Allowing States or territories to decide whether or not to permit slavery, is referring to what idea?
What is popular sovereignty.
500
What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write?
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin.
500
What was the final consequence of the Kansas - Nebraska Act, killing over 200 people?
What is a civil war.
500
What was the idea where the local police would enforce the decision of a state based on popular sovereignty?
What is the Freeport Doctrine
500
Why was John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry a failure?
Because the slaves did not come.