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The man who devised this plan, that he believed would benefit all Americans, was nicknamed "The Great Compromiser."
Who was Henry Clay?
100
This legislation attempted to appease both the North and south on the issues surrounding of slavery.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
100
Most Southern politicians belonged to this party.
What is the Democratic Party?
100
This was the first state to secede after the Tariff Act of 1832.
What is South Carolina?
100
The controversial book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, that exposed the practice of slavery to the whole nation.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
This man became the first president of the Confederate States of America in 1861.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
200
This law, passed in 1850, required Northerners to return escaped slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
In 1848 anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats joined together to form this party.
What is the Free Soil Party?
200
The South won the first battle of the Civil War here.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
This bill, which never was passed, proposed that all new U.S. territories be free states.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
300
He was the first presidential candidate of the new Republican Party.
Who was John C. Fremont?
300
In 1857, this decision effectively legalized slavery in U.S. territories.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
300
After their party split in 1854, many northern Whigs joined this party.
What is the Republican Party?
300
The Wilmot Proviso worried Southerners because it proposed to ban slavery in this region.
What is the Western Territory?
300
This doctrine says that individual states have the right to nullify federal laws they disagree with. limiting the power of the federal government.
What is the States' Rights Doctrine?
400
He was the author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
400
This law enraged abolitionists and led to a violent mini-Civil War in a western state.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
These public debates made a young congressman from Illinois famous.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
400
The location of an attack by abolitionist John Brown and his supporters against a U.S. armory.
What is Harper's Ferry?
400
The period of time between 1814-1824 when the country experienced a resurgence of nationalism.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
500
The Tariff Act of 1828 increased the prices on imported goods, prompting this senator from South Carolina to push for nullification.
Who was John C. Calhoun?
500
This act placed taxes on many foreign products to discourage the practice of "dumping."
What is the Tariff Act of 1816?
500
This man was the presidential candidate of the Southern Democrats, losing to Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election.
Who is John Breckinridge?
500
This state earned this nickname after violent protests broke out between pro- and anti-slavery groups.
What is "Bleeding Kansas?"
500
The view that each state had "the right to do as it pleases on the subject of slavery."
What is "popular sovereignty"?