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100
Elected president of the United States in 1860 which angered many in the south.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
The presidential candidate whose name did not appear on the ballot in most Southern states in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
According to this law, a person could be fined up to $1,000 for helping escaped slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
100
This region of the United States was against slavery.
What is the North?
100
The first territory to shed blood over the issue of slavery.
What is Kansas?
200
The person who was vehemently against slavery and tried to start a rebellion at Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
200
This congressman proposed the Missouri Compromise.
Who is Henry Clay?
200
The Supreme Court case that increased division between the North and the South leading up to the Civil War.
What is the Dred Scott case?
200
Though many farms still existed in the north, more and more of its economy was becoming based on what?
What is manufacturing (or factories)?
200
The Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska Act both tried to settle this problem.
What is slavery?
300
The president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
This politician opposed Abraham Lincoln in two separate elections.
Who is Shephen A. Douglas?
300
The first attack of the Civil War occurred at this location in the South.
What is Fort Sumter?
300
The Dred Scott decision was a blow to the abolitionist movement because Chief Justice Taney said this about slaves.
What is slaves are property (even in the North)?
400
This person wrote a book about slavery called "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
This presidential candidate won the election of 1856 with support from Southern voters (Democrats).
Who is James Buchanan?
400
Stephen Douglas's stand that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws that protect slaveholders' rights.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
400
Formed on February 4, 1861.
What is the Confederacy?
400
There was a bitter debate over the annexation of this state during the 1844 election.
What is Texas?
500
This person was the politician who proposed the Freeport Doctrine.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
500
The senator from Kentucky who tried to save the Union by proposing a last-minute compromise (to re-instate the Missouri Compromise).
Who is John Crittenden?
500
This plan specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands that might be acquired from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
500
This presidential candidate received support from Southern voters in the election of 1856.
Who is James Buchanan?
500
Besides slavery, Southerners were also fighting for this.
What is states rights?