Passed as part of the Compromise of 1850. It stated that all runaway slaves would have to return to their masters.
What is Fugitive Slave Act
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True or False: The land received after defeating the Mexican army caused a growing divide in American politics and society because the new territories had to be decided whether they would be free or slave states.
What is True
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This state wanted to join the Union; it set in motion the Compromise of 1850
What is California
100
This state was the first to secede.
What is South Carolina
100
Who attacked Charles Sumner with a gold handled cane?
What is Representative Preston Brooks
200
What was Dred Scott's argument before the Supreme Court?
What is He argued that he should be free because he once lived in a free territory and state.
200
Senator Lewis Cass proposed that the citizens of each new territory should decide whether to permit slavery, this idea was known as
What is Popular Sovereignty
200
An act of rebellion against the established government
What is insurrection
200
Led the raid on Harper's Ferry and was hanged for treason.
What is John Brown
300
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise act and allowed white male settlers to determine by popular sovereignty, whether a state will be free or slave state.
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act
300
Mexican troops launched assault on Texan missionary. The Texans fought bravely, fighting until the last man and delaying the Mexican army. This battle inspired many Texans to rise up and defeat the Mexican army
What is Battle of the Alamo
300
Conflict over slave owners bringing their slaves into Kansas in an attempt to admit Kansas as a slave state. Abolitionists fought them on the border, this conflict was known as..
What is Bleeding Kansas
300
The attack on this fort launched the civil war as Lincoln sent supplies to this fort but was misinterpreted as a war ship by Confederate president Jefferson Davis and captured the ship upon it's arrival on this fort.
What is Fort Sumner
300
Gave a speech that included the line "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
What is Abraham Lincoln
400
Introduced by Henry Clay to address the growing tensions between Missouri entering as a slave state and established the 36/30 line which admitted Missouri as a free state and Maine as a slave state.
What is Missouri Compromise
400
This bill stated that slavery nor involuntary servitude shall never exist in any territories acquired from Mexico.
What is Wilmot Proviso
400
The law administrated by military forces that is invoked by a government in an emergency
What is martial law
400
This abolitionist actually supported the Dred Scott decision because he believed it would help many Northerners join the fight against slavery.
What is Fredrick Douglass
500
True or False: At First Congress did not pass Clay's bill because President Taylor opposed it.
What is True
500
Sparked the Mexican-American war by congress agreeing to annex the territory of Texas, admitting it as a slave state, and setting off the tensions about the border between Mexico and America
What is Texas Annexation
500
the practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the legislature
What is referendum
500
The states that seceded after the firing on Fort Sumter.
What is What is Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia.
500
Senator from Illinois who supported popular sovereignty.