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allowing people to decide
What is popular sovereignty
100

The main "conductor" in the Underground Railroad

Who is Harriet Tubman

100
allowed Missouri (MO) to enter union as slave state
What is Missouri Compromise
100

Random: which # president was Lincoln?

16th

100
a person who dies for a great cause
What is martyr
200
a conflict between citizens of the same country
What is civil war
200
President of the Confederate States of America
What is Jefferson Davis
200
required all citizens to return runaway slaves or be fined/imprisoned
What is Fugitive Slave Act
200

Name the reason the Southern States seceded. Hint: it has to do with an election

What is Lincoln was elected as President

200

The location of John Brown's attack on a federal arsenal?

Where is Harper's Ferry

300

Someone who does not support slavery & fights for slavery to end

Who is the abolitionists?

300

The name of Dr. Emerson's wife

Who is Eliza Sanford

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
a runaway
What is fugitive
400

What is the vocab word for when states were leaving the Union

What is secession?

400
Chief Justice on the Dred Scott Court Case
What is Roger B. Taney?
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

Who is Abraham Lincoln