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Acts/Compromises
People
Election of 1860
Misc
100
a runaway person
fugitive
100
True or False: The Kansas-Nebraska act divided a territory into two parts
True
100
Who was known as The Great Compromiser?
Henry Clay
100
Who won the election?
Abraham Lincoln
200
a proslavery person who rode from Missouri to Kansas to battle antislavery forces
Border Ruffian
200
The __________________ attempted to settle disputes in territories won from Mexico.
The Compromise of 1850
200
True or False: Abraham Lincoln beat Stephen Douglass in the Senate race
False
200
True or False: Abraham Lincoln won the election by a small margin
True
200
Why was there conflict in the western territories over slavery?
The legality of slavery had to be decided in the lands added from the Mexican Cession; could have created an unequal balance
300
one who sacrifices his or her own life for beliefs
martyr
300
The __________________ divided the Louisiana Purchase in half (free in the north, slave in the South)
Missouri Compromise
300
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
300
Which party was Abraham Lincoln a member of?
Republican
300
To what area did the Missouri Compromise apply?
Lands purchased in the Louisiana Purchase
400
define popular sovereignty
the right of people to create their own government
400
Which Compromise or Act kept the balance of slave and free states for almost 30 years?
The Missouri Compromise
400
Who was John Brown?
An abolitionist who inspired other abolitionist (also tried to organize a slave revolt)
400
What effect did Abraham Lincoln's election have on national unity?
Southern states seceded
400
How did Uncle Tom's Cabin effect the Northerners AND Southerners?
It heightened the tensions between them
500
How did northerners react to the Fugitive Slave Act?
They did not agree with it and stated they don't respect it and won't obey it
500
What was the effect of the Dred Scott decision on the United States?
It reversed the Missouri Compromise and said it was unconstitutional
500
What were Stephen Douglass' views on slavery?
He did not care either way. He did not support it or oppose it.
500
How did the Civil War begin? (think who and where)
Confederate troops attacked Fort Sumter, South Carolina