This person filed a lawsuit for his freedom in 1846.
Who is Dred Scott?
100
This law required all American citizens to help catch runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
100
This man was involved in two major violent acts against supporters of slavery. One was in Kansas, the other was in Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
100
This is the term used for leaving the country.
What is secession?
200
This nullified the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
This person believed in popular sovereignty, which he stated in congressional debates.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
200
During this Supreme Court Case, a person who had lived in free and slave states with his master was not considered a free person; he was still a slave in the eyes of the law.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
200
These were people from Missouri who traveled into Kansas to vote in their elections, trying to influence Kansas to also be a slave state.
What are border ruffians?
200
Abraham Lincoln was a leader in this political party.
What is Republican?
300
This method of decision-making allowed individual states/territories to decide whether that state/territory would be free or slave.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
This person stated that he believed slavery was wrong, and that the Republican Party was against slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
Roger Taney ruled that the federal government could not limit this in any U.S. territory or state.
What is slavery?
300
This Senator and abolitionist spoke out strongly against government officials who supported slavery.
Who is Charles Sumner?
300
This was the first state to seceed.
What is South Carolina?
400
This Western state became free in the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
400
This person burst into the Senate and caned a Senator in 1856.
Who is Preston Brooks?
400
This 1859 raid, aimed at arming slaves against masters, was unsuccessful.
What is John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry?
400
This political leader believed slavery was morally wrong, but his priority was preserving the union of the entire United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
This is an example of a border state during the Civil War.
What is Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland or Delaware?
500
These are the 5 elements of the Compromise of 1850.
What are: 1) California is a free state; 2) New Mexico has no limits on slavery; 3) New Mexico/Texas border is resolved in favor of New Mexico; 4) The slave trade is outlawed in Washington, D.C.; 5) Fugitive Slave Act
500
In 1857, this Chief Justice ruled that African Americans can never be U.S. citizens.
Who is Roger Taney?
500
These were 2 consequences for violating the Fugitive Slave Act.
What are fines and imprisonment?
500
This political party had the motto "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Speech, and Free Men".