Sectionalism
Compromises and Acts
Abolition + Resistance
Conflict and Violence
Politics and Elections
100

Region that had economy based on plantations and slave labor

What is the South?

100

1820 agreement that kept the balance between free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state

What is the Missouri Compromise?

100

The name of the network of secret routes and safe houses that helped enslaved people escape to freedom

What is the Underground Railroad?

100

Event involved pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers clashing in Kansas

What is “Bleeding Kansas”?

100

Elected President of the United States in 1860

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

200

Region that had economy based on industry and manufacturing

What is the North?

200

Compromise that admitted California as a free state and included a stronger Fugitive Slave Law

What is the Compromise of 1850?

200

The escaped slave and famous speaker who published “The North Star”

Who is Frederick Douglass?

200

The name of the violent act where a senator was attacked with a cane on the Senate floor in 1856

What is the Sumner-Brooks Caning?

200

Political party formed in the 1850s to stop the spread of slavery

What is the Republican Party?
300

This word means loyalty to a region rather than the whole country

What is Sectionalism?

300

Law, passed in 1854, that allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska territories

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

300

The name of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel that changed many Northerners’ views on slavery

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?

300

Physically connected western cities rapidly during the gold and silver rushes

What are railroads?

300

 African American who sued for his freedom but was denied by the Supreme Court

Who is Dred Scott?

400

The line that line divided free and slave states in the Missouri Compromise

What is the 36°30′ line?

400

Law that required citizens to return runaway slaves, even in the North

What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

400

The name of the woman who helped hundreds of slaves escape via the Underground Railroad

Who is Harriet Tubman?

400

Term that describes the idea that territories should vote to decide on slavery

What is popular sovereignty?

400

The name of the new nation formed by the seceded states

What is the Confederacy?

500

Year gold was discovered in California

What is 1849?

500

Overturned by the Kansas-Nebraska Act

What is the Missouri Compromise?

500

Radical abolitionist who led the raid on Harper’s Ferry in 1859

Who is John Brown?

500

The name of the fort attacked by Confederate forces in 1861, starting the Civil War

What is Fort Sumter?

500

Elected President of the Confederacy

Who was Jefferson Davis?