Show:
Parties and Places
Laws and Decisions
People and Things
Final Jeopardy
100
This party wanted to keep slavery out of the West
What is the Free Soils Party
100
This act decided if Kansas was a slave state, or a free state
What is the Nebraska-Kansas Act
100
_____ was a book that highlighted the evils of slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
100
What kept the number of slave states and the number of free states equal?
What is the Missouri Compromise
200
This group of people battled to keep Kansas a free state
Who are Border Ruffians
200
This law required all citizens to catch slaves, or else suffer a $1000 fine and 6 years of prison
What is the Fugitive Slave Law
200
She wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin, but had never experienced slavery first hand
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
200
This party wanted to keep the West free
What is the Free Soils Party
300
_____ was the nickname for this new state
What is Bleeding Kansas
300
This decision claimed that slaves were property, and that bans on slavery violated the 5th amendment.
What is the Dred Scott Decision
300
This man knocked out senator Charles Sumner with heavy cane because this man supported slavery
Who is Preston Brooks
300
This man supported the Nebraska-Kansas Act
Who is President Franklin Pierce
400
Popular sovereignty decided wether this state was a free or slave state
What is Kansas
400
This compromise kept the number of free states and slave states equal
What is the Missouri Compromise
400
This man proposed a law to keep newly won territories from Mexico free states
Who is William Proviso
500
This creek hosted a battle that involved guerrilla warfare
What is Potawatomie Creek
500
This man supported the Nebraska-Kansas Act
Who is President Franklin Pierce
500
This man was an abolitionist that was knocked out by Preston Brooks
Who is Charles Sumner