Sectionalism - 1800-1830
Sectionalism - 1831-1860
Important People
Civil War
Miscellaneous
100

Coming about in the 1820s, this group's goal was to outlaw slavery?

Abolitionists or Abolitionism

100

He was elected president in the controversial election of 1860?

Abraham Lincoln

100

He was the general of the Confederacy during the Civil War

Robert E. Lee

100

The south become known as the Confederacy and the north became known by this name?

Union

100

The term used when a potential state votes on the issue of slavery is?

Popular Sovereignty

200

This future state was acquired from Spain in 1819, satisfying the southern expansionists?

Florida

200

The area known as the Oregon Territory was gained through a treaty with this country?

Great Britain

200

In 1863, he delivered the Gettysburg Address at the site of the battle?

Abraham Lincoln

200

President Lincoln's main objective upon being elected was this?

Preserve the Union

200

The 1st southern state to secede from the Union

South Carolina

300

As part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Missouri would come in as a slave state and this state would enter in as a free state?

Maine

300

The name of the law, passed in 1850, that required escaped slaves to be returned?

Fugitive Slave Law

300

She was one of the key "conductors" of the Underground Railroad, making 19 trips to help runaway slaves to safety?

Harriet Tubman

300

The General that oversaw the North's victory and the end of the war was?

Ulysses S. Grant

300

This historical fiction novel written to show the evils of slavery and published in 1852

Uncle Tom's Cabin

400

The belief that the United States was "chosen" to expand westward?

Manifest Destiny

400

The violence that erupted as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act led to this name given to the Kansas territory?

Bleeding Kansas

400

Once a slave himself, this abolitionist became the face of the movement, writing books, establishing newspapers and pressuring Congress to end slavery?

Frederick Douglas

400

This was issued on January 1, 1863 and stated that slaves in areas that are still in rebellion are now "forever free".

Emancipation Proclamation

400

As a result of the Compromise of 1850, this state entered the union as a free state

California

500

As a result of the Missouri Compromise, slavery was outlawed north of this latitude line within the Louisiana Purchase?

36/30 line

500

This 1857 supreme court case ruled that slaves were considered property and could be taken into free states?

Dred Scott v. Sanford

500

This Southern Democrat ran in the election of 1860, got the 2nd most votes and favored the extension of slavery westward?

John Breckinridge

500

The 1st former slave, Union infantry regiment to fight in the Civil War, the 54th, came from what state?

Massachusetts

500

The name of antislavery newspaper that was started in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison

The Liberator