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Sectionalism I
Sectionalism II
Sectionalism III
Sectionalism IV
Sectionalism V
100
The Missouri Compromise and Kansas-Nebraska Act were mainly about this issue
What is SLAVERY
100
This abolitionist helped slaves escape
Who is Harriet Tubman
100
The people vote
What is popular sovereignty
100

The "section" of the U.S. relied on forced free labor and agriculture

What is the South

100
Thinking of a map of North America, what country in the NORTH would slaves in the U.S. runaway to (they would do this because of the Fugitive Slave Act)
What is Canada
200

Belief that people are born with an inner knowledge of right and wrong

Transcendentalism

200
This law or act made it so that it was illegal to help a slave runaway and allowed slaves to be returned to their owners if caught.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
200
This happened to Nat Turner after he led the rebellion
What is executed
200

Name of the line separates free from slave territory

What is the Missouri Compromise Line or 36-30 line

200

The harsh laws punished northerners who did not turn in runaway slaves and slave owners.  Led to violent abuse of captured slave.

Fugitive Slave Laws

300
This New Yorker led a journey to kill 5 slave owners
Who is John Brown
300

William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist paper

The Liberator

300
This word best describes native born citizens over immigrants
What is nativism
300

Dred Scott did not win his court case but he was not considered a __________.  He was considered property.

What is a citizen?

300
Escaped slave, famous orator (speaker), published the North Star

Frederick Douglass

400
This was an anti-immigration party
What is the Know-Nothing Party
400

No slavery north of the 36-30 line

Missouri Compromise

400
This was the main reason for population growth in California
What is the Gold Rush
400
This book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
400

This document tried to make it so that there would be no slavery on Mexican soil. Hint: WP

What is Wilmot Proviso

500
This slave sued for the right to be free
Who is Dred Scott
500
California entered the Union as a free state because of this compromise
What is the Compromise of 1850
500

This describes the fight between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers (John Brown's raids, Sumner-Brooks caning)

What is Bleeding Kansas

500

The U.S. acquired the land that reached the Pacific coast through this treaty that ended the Mexican-American War.

What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

500
After ______ was elected in 1860, _______ seceded and formed the _____________ ______ of _______

Lincoln, SC, Confederate States of America