In 1854, Congress passed a law that allowed settlers in these territories to decide for themselves what to do about slavery, a concept known as popular sovereignty.
What are Kansas and Nebraska?
100
This law created an invisible line across the US; north of the line would be free, south would be slave.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
Resulted in mass numbers of people moving west and California’s petitioning to become a state.
What is the California Gold Rush?
100
The pride Southerns had in their way of life could be considered a version of this.
What is Sectionalism?
200
Was vehemently against slavery and tried to start a rebellion at Harpers Ferry?
Who is John Brown?
200
What part of the country benefited from tariffs?
What is the North?
200
The policy that required all citizens to turn in runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
The event(s) that made Abraham Lincoln a national figure.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
200
The belief that America deserved to conquer the territories to the West and South.
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
He ran against Lincoln TWICE!
Who is Stephen Douglas?
300
Missouri Border Ruffians and Free Soilers settled here to try to influence the decision on slavery in this new state.
What is Kansas?
300
The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all tried to settle this issue.
What is Slavery in the Territories?
300
This event repealed the Missouri Compromise and changed the rules for determining whether there would be slavery in the territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
These were the main differences in the economies of the North and the South.
What is the difference between agricultural (Southern) and industrial (Northern) economies?
400
He was the chief proponent of the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
This free state joined the Union as part of the Missouri Compromise.
What is Maine?
400
This Supreme Court Decision threatened to allow slavery to spread throughout the Western Territories.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
400
This event was viewed as courageous in the North and terrorism in the South.
What is John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry?
400
The right of people to make political decisions for themselves.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
500
He printed The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
500
The Compromise of 1850 prohibited the slave-trade in these two "states"?
What are the District of Columbia and California?
500
This law determined that the land in the Mexican cession would be divided into two territories.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
The war in which young officers like Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee had their first combat experience.
What is the Mexican-American War?
500
The kind of economic system in which you buy and sell goods and set prices according to supply and demand.