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Compromise
Bleeding Kansas
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Race & Rebellion
States
100
Compromise that divided the free north from the slave south
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
Town burned down by supporter of slavery on May 21st, 1856
What is Lawrence?
100
South Carolina secedes in response to the election of this president.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Reason the South secedes
What is slavery/election of 1860?
100
Home state of both Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln
What is Illinois?
200
Controversial law made in return for making California a free state
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
Event in which one congressman caned another nearly to the point of death
What is the Brooks-Sumner Affair?
200
Supporter of popular sovereignty and Lincoln's main rival.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
200
First Republican President
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
State made free by the Compromise of 1850
What is California?
300
Man responsible for proposing the Compromise of 1850
Who is Henry Clay?
300
Where John Brown exacted revenge with a broadsword against supporters of slavery
What is Pottawatomie Massacre?
300
Radical opponent of slavery who uses violence to fight violence
Who is John Brown?
300
Makes Lincoln a celebrity
What are the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
300
Experienced a miniature civil war over the issue of slavery
What is Kansas?
400
This court case found the federal compromises on the issue of slavery unconstitutional.
What is Dredd Scott v. Sandford?
400
Belief that the people should decide an issue
What is Popular Sovereignty?
400
Doughface democrat elected in 1856 because people think he will be moderate.
Who is James Buchanan?
400
Doctrine introduced by Douglas supporting popular sovereignty
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
400
The state where the Republican party was officially formed
What is Michigan?
500
Compromise passed that allow slaves to be counted in a states representation
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
500
Introduces Popular Sovereignty into Kansas
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
500
Party formed in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is the Republican Party?
500
John Brown's famous attempt at arming slaves in Virginia
What is Harper's Ferry?
500
Apparently people from this state like to cane their colleagues.
What is South Carolina?