-Missouri would be admitted to the U.S. as a slave state and Maine would be created as a free state
-Congress agreed that as the U.S. expanded westward states north of 36 degrees 30' N latitude would be free states
What is the two main points of the Missouri Compromise?
100
Voters in the Kansas territory would decide whether to become a free or slave state.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
Order all citizens of the U.S. to assist in the return of enslaved people who had escaped from their owners.
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
100
A federal fort located in Charleston, South Carolina
What is Fort Sumter?
200
Christianity
What is the main religion that opposes slavery?
200
It was formed to oppose slavery.
What is the purpose of the Free Soil Party?
200
Topeka and Lecompton
What is Kansas's antislavery and proslavery capitals.
200
John C Breckinridge
What is the name of the Southern Democratic nominee for the Election of 1860?
200
This tried to supply the fort but was fired upon by Confederate forces and was forced to turn back.
What is a federal ship?
300
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
What is written by Harriet Beecher Stowe during prior to the Civil War?
300
An act that destroyed the Whig party, divided the Democratic party, and created the Republican party.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
In 1856 tensions in Kansas broke out into open violence
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
300
Stephan Douglas
What is the name of the Northern Democratic nominee for the Election of 1860?
300
An act of rebellion committed by the Confederates.
What is when Confederates fired on federal property?
400
Type of transportation that positively effected the North during the Civil War
What is railroads?
400
A movement to ensure that native-born Americans receive better treatment than immigrants.
What is Nativism?
400
On May 18 and 20 Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, who was a leading Republican and was against slavery, gave a speech which attacked Southerners for attempting to force slavery into the Kansas territory
What is "Bleeding Sumner"
400
Abraham Lincoln
What is the name of the Republican nominee in the Election of 1860?
400
The result of when the Upper South saw Lincoln calling for volunteers to take back Fort Sumter as an act of war.
What is when the upper south seceded from the Union?
500
Object that was used for communication and benefited the North
What is the telegraph?
500
Order all citizens of the U.S. to assist in the return of enslaved people who had escaped from their owners.
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
500
Democrats supported this act during the election of 1856.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500
South Carolina
What is the name of the first state to leave the Union on December 20, 1860?
500
April 10, 1861
What is when Confederate president Jefferson Davis ordered General P.G.T. Beauregard to demand that Ft. Sumter surrender?