This helped northern manufacturers but hurt southern farmers causing S. Carolina to threaten secession.
Tariff of 1828, also known as "Tariff of Abominations".
100
Just like he did in 1820 with the Missouri Compromise this Congressman crafted the Compromise of 1850 to keep both north and south interests in balance.
What is Henry Clay
100
The Kansas-Nebraska Act opened up the area west of Missouri and Iowa for settlement using _________________________ to determine whether the area would be free or slave.
What is popular sovereignty
100
Henry Clay created so many good compromises while in Congress he was given this nickname.
What is Great Compromiser
100
Lincoln was the candidate of the _______________ party in 1860.
What is Republican
200
This crisis in the early 1830's was caused by a southern state refusing to follow the 1828 tariff.
What is the Nullification Crisis
200
The Compromise of 1850 allowed _____________ to enter the union as a free state and the Utah and New Mexico territories to use ________________ to decide whether they would be free or slave.
What is California; popular sovereignty
200
The Kansas-Nebraska Act angered the __________________ groups because it nullified the 36-30 latitude line agreement created by the _______________________.
What is anti-slavery; Missouri Compromise
200
This South Carolina Congressman led the efforts against the Tariff of Abominations and created the Nullification Crisis in the 1830's. He was the first to mention secession.
What is John C. Calhoun
200
The presidential election of 1860 saw four candidates trying to win the presidency, but the party that scared the pro-slavery states the most was the Republicans who said they would not disturb slavery ______________________.
What is where it already existed.
300
What was the agreement called where Missouri was allowed to enter the union as a slave state and Maine was allowed to enter the union as a free state?
What is Missouri Compromise
300
The Compromise of 1850 gave New Mexico some of _______________ territory and abolished the slave trade in ________________.
What is Texas; Washington D.C.
300
Kansas was hotly divided over the slavery issue and residents began fighting over the issue for the first time in the country, these skirmished were known as ___________________________.
What is Bleeding Kansas
300
This man was a Senator from Massachusetts and Secretary of State under three different presidents who gave many passionate speeches against secession.
What is Daniel Webster
300
Lincoln won the election in 1860 which caused __________________ to be the first state to secede in December of 1860.
What is South Carolina
400
In the Missouri Compromise legislators agreed that all areas in the Louisiana Purchase north of the ____________ would not allow slavery.
What is 36-30 latitude line
400
The Compromise of 1850 created the _________________ which allowed southern slave owners the right to track slaves into the north and required government officials in the north to help the southern slave owners.
What is Fugitive Slave Act
400
Missouri sent people to Kansas to illegally vote for slavery in Kansas so Kansas would become a slave area, these Missourians were known as ______________________.
What is border ruffians
400
This Supreme Court decision in 1857 officially labeled slaves as property rather than people who cannot sue their owners.
What is Dred Scott decision
400
Once one state seceded five others, including Texas, seceded in February, 1861 to create the ________________________________.
What is Confederate States of America
500
The Missouri Compromise agreed upon in the year ______ was important to keep the amount of _______ and __________ states in balance in the nation at this time.
What is 1820; free; slave
500
The Fugitive Slave Act caused anti-slavery groups to _______________________________ to help slaves secure their freedom and was very ________________ in the north.
What is increase their efforts; unpopular
500
Because of the heated incidents in Kansas this senator was beaten with a cane by another Congressman for his divisive and condescending speech in Congress.
What is Charles Sumner
500
The Dred Scott decision said Congress or even voters could not prohibit _______________ anywhere in the U.S.
What is slavery
500
When the southern states seceded President Lincoln informed them he would hold all federal property in the south, but when he tried to resupply _______________________ the confederates attacked the fort starting the _____________________.