Law passed in order to get Southerners to agree to California's entry into the Union as a free state
What is "the Fugitive Slave Act"?
100
His debates with Stephen Douglass gave him a national reputation as a powerful voice opposing slavery's expansion
Who is "Abraham Lincoln"?
100
State added to the Union immediately before Missouri as part of the Missouri Compromise
What is "Maine"?
100
Of these, the law that was passed earliest: Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Fugitive Slave Act, Missouri Compromise
What is "Missouri Compromise"?
100
It was a speech delivered in March of 1861 that said that secession was unacceptable, but also declared the people of the seceding states "friends" not "enemies"
What is "Lincoln's First Inaugural Address"?
200
Law that divided U.S. territories into slave and free on either side of an arbitrary line
What is the "Missouri Compromise"?
200
He was elected to be the first president of the Confederate States of America
Who is "Jefferson Davis"?
200
Anti-slavery capitol of Kansas which was violently attacked by border ruffians in the Spring of 1856.
What is "Lawrence, Kansas"?
200
Event that caused John Brown to "consecrate his life to the destruction of slavery"
What is "the murder of abolitionist Elijah P. Lovejoy"?
200
This compromise preserved the balance of power in the Senate between the free and slave states.
What is the "Missouri Compromise"?
300
Law that the Supreme court overturned as unconstitutional in its Dredd Scott v. Sandford decision
What is the "Missouri Compromise"?
300
He led a failed slave revolt in late 1859
Who is "John Brown"?
300
Free state that Dredd Scott argued he ceased being a slave in after being taken there by his master.
What is "Illinois"?
300
A word for the extreme regional loyalties that divided Americans during the antebellum period
What is "sectionalism"?
300
It infuriated abolitionists because it made their attempts to help slaves escape to freedom illegal.
What is the "Fugitive Slave Act"?
400
Law which introduced the concept of "popular sovereignty" in 1854
What is the "Kansas-Nebraska Act"?
400
He championed the idea of "popular sovereignty" and was the architect of the doomed "Kansas-Nebraska Act" of 1854
Who is "Stephen Douglas"?
400
Location of the first shots fired by the Confederate army on the Union army.
What is "Fort Sumter, South Carolina"?
400
Latitude of the dividing line between slave and free territories after 1820.
What is "36 degrees. 30 minutes North Latitude"?
400
Ironically, no one was killed in this battle, which was the first in America's deadliest war yet.
What is the "Battle at Fort Sumter"?
500
First election year in which a Republican was elected President.
What is "1860"?
500
He unsuccessfully proposed a series of amendments to the Constitution as a last-ditch effort to form a compromise that would prevent the breakup of the Union after Lincoln's election to the presidency
Who is "John Crittenden"?
500
Of these, the state that seceded from the Union last: Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi
What is "Virginia"?
500
Political party that became almost exclusively a Southern, pro-slavery party after various anti-slavery politicians formed their own new parties
What is the "Democratic Party"?
500
It alarmed Southerners, and made them begin to arm themselves against abolitionist agitators who sought to end slavery in the South.