This state is the name of multiple compromises made in the 1800's
What is Missouri?
100
The consequence for people to defy the Fugitive Slave Act would be this
What is jail and a fine?
100
The right of people to create their government
What is popular sovereignty?
100
This senator proposed the Missouri Compromise
Who is Henry Clay?
100
This band of proslavery men rode across the Missouri Border to cause trouble
What are the Border Ruffians?
200
Senator Henry Clay's 1820 proposal which stated that Missouri could be admitted as a slave state and Maine would be admitted as a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
200
Judges were more likely to send an accused runaway to the south because of this
What is they were paid more for each runaway they sent to the South
200
a war between people of the same country
What is civil war?
200
This author penned "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
These debates took place between two senate candidates that focused on slavery.
What is the Lincoln- Douglas debates?
300
This compromise was again drafted by Senator Clay and consisted of 5 separate parts
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
This act called for a division of a territory into two territories. People in each of these territories would vote to decide whether they were free or slave states.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
use of hit and run tactics
What is guerrilla warfare?
300
This Senator refused to compromise and said that fugitive slaves must be returned to the South.
Who is John Calhoun?
300
This abolitionist man who started a raid in Kansas was later sentenced to death and was thought of a hero in the north
Who is John Brown?
400
This proposed law called for a law to ban slavery in any territories won from Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
400
People from this area supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act because they felt their people would move across the border and vote for that state to be like their territory.
What is the South?
400
willing to give up one's life for his or her beliefs
What is a martyr?
400
This man was attacked in the Senate after criticizing Andrew Butler and other proslavery senators.
Who is Charles Sumner?
400
The first state to secede from the union
What is South Carolina?
500
This act was part of one compromise that forced Northerners to participate in slavery
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
500
This group of people openly protested this new act by openly challenging the Fugitive Slave Act
What is northerners?
500
to remove
What is secede?
500
An enslaved man from Missouri who filed a lawsuit for his freedom
Who is Dred Scott?
500
What was the Supreme Court ruling of the Dred Scott v. Sanford case?
Scott could not file a lawsuit because as a slave, he was not a citizen. Also, that slaves were considered property