Review of Antebellum Reformers, Slave State Free State Compromises, Prelude to Civil War

Slave state/free state compromises

100

Who was known as the Great Compromiser for helping the North and South compromise?

Henry Clay of Kentucky

200

Which compromise kept the balance of free states and slave states by adding Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state?

Missouri Compromise of 1820

300

Which slave state/free state compromise led to a virtual civil war in Kansas?

Kansas-Nebraska Act

400

Which slave state/free state compromise was triggered by California's application for statehood?

Compromise of 1850

500

What was given to make the South happy as part of the Compromise of 1850?

the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Reformers of the Antebellum Period

100

What religious event of Antebellum America inspired various social reform movements?

Second Great Awakening

200

He escaped slavery and became a best-selling author and well-known anti-slavery speaker.

Frederick Douglass

300

She escaped slavery and then helped other slaves escape by working with the Underground Railroad.

Harriet Tubman

400

These sisters grew up on a slave plantation in Charleston before they became abolitionists.

Sarah and Angelina Grimke

500

This abolitionist killed pro-slavery people in Kansas and tried to take over a gun warehouse in Virginia.

John Brown

Events leading to the Civil War

100

The most notorious ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court

Dred Scott vs. Sandford 1857

200

This was the trigger for 11 southern states to secede and for the Civil War.

election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860

300

Political party that wanted to stop the spread of slavery into the western territories.

Republican Party

400

Under this law, northerners had to return runaway slaves and anyone who helped a slave escape could face a fine or jail time.

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

500

Would leave slavery where it already existed but would stop it from spreading to the western territories

Free Soil position

Confederate States of America

100

First state to secede after Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860

South Carolina

200

Total number of states in the Confederate States of America

11

300

President of the Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis of Mississippi

400

Greatest military leader of the Confederate States of America

Robert E. Lee

500

Issue that led to Civil War

slavery

Miscellaneous

100

I am going to ace the test.

Yes

200

Two reasons the USA did not annex Texas when it first became independent of Mexico

It was a slave state and Mexico would get mad.

300

Pennsylvania congressman who wanted to prohibit slavery in any land taken from Mexico

David Wilmot

400

Slave trade was banned where under the Compromise of 1850?

Washington, D.C.

500

What southern states kept threatening to do whenever the issue of extending slavery came up

Secede, or pull out of the USA