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allowing people to decide
What is popular sovereignty
100
wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe
100
allowed Missouri (MO) to enter union as slave state
What is Missouri Compromise
100
Name the speech/address *Lincoln said he would not interfere with slavery in states where it already existed *no state could lawfully leave the union *pleaded for reconciliation (did not want war)
What is Lincoln's first Inaugural Address
100

What was a last ditch  political attempt to avoid civil war

Crittenden Compromise

200
a conflict between citizens of the same country
What is civil war
200

Ruled against Dred Scott in the Supreme Court

Roger B. Taney

200
required all citizens to return runaway slaves or be fined/imprisoned
What is Fugitive Slave Act
200
Name the debate: these 2 candidates debated 7 times over slavery
What is Lincoln-Douglas debate
200
an exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country
What is sectionalism
300

members of anti immigrant groups

know nothings

300

Chief Advocate for Popular Soverignty

Stephen Douglas

300
*chose to ignore Missouri Compromise *allowed Kansas and Nebraska to use Popular Sovereignty *caused more tension between North and South
What is Kansas- Nebraska Act
300
Name the attack: U.S. fort in Charleston Harbor was attacked by southern Confederates It was the beginning of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter
300

northern laws to nullify the fugitive slave act

personal liberty laws

400

Called for the banning of slavery in the territories gained in the Mexican Cession

Wilmot Proviso

400

Republican Candidate for President in 1860

Abraham Lincoln

400
*California admitted as free state (upset South) *Utah & New Mexico follow popular sovereignty *slave trade abolished in D.C. *pass Fugitive Slave Law (upset North)
What is Compromise 1850
400
Name the court case: *Dred Scott, a slave, sued for his freedom *supreme Court ruled Scott was still a slave and property *Constitution still protected slavery
What is Dred Scott Case
400
an abolitionist that led a raid on Harper's Ferry
What is John Brown
500
group of people crossing state border to cast votes in another state
What is border ruffians
500
proposed five main points known as the Compromise of 1850
What is Henry Clay
500
name the state "Bleeding_________"
What is Kansas
500

name the first state to secede from the Union

What is South Carolina

500
first Republican president of the United States elected in 1860
What is Abraham Lincoln