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The main part of this act of Congress made California a free state.
What is The Compromise of 1850?
100
This part of the Compromise of 1850 was about runaway slaves living in the North.
What is The Fugitive Slave Law?
100
He was a radical abolitionist who committed murder in his fight against slavery.
Who is John Brown?
100
The Supreme Court said he had no right to sue for his freedom because he was not a citizen.
Who is Dred Scott?
200
It gave safe passage, safe houses along the way, food, and some money to start a new life.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
He was a runaway slave who became one of the most famous abolitionist for his powerful speeches against slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
This is where John Brown was caught trying to steal weapons from the military to give to slaves and lead them in a rebellion.
What is Harpers Ferry?
200
Daily Double!!! One of the promises made by Abraham Lincoln, if he was elected president in 1860, was to not allow slavery in _______________.
What is the new territories or new states?
200
Daily Double!!! Which part of the Fugitive Slave Law made it easy for judges to be corrupt in their decisions about runaway slaves?
What is making $10 for deciding for the slave-owner, but only $5 for deciding for the person accused of being a runaway slave?
300
She was a runaway slave who secretly returned to the South hundreds of times to help other slaves escape to the North.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
Cotton made up more than ___________ of all the money made by America from exporting goods to other countries.
What is half?
300
The Dred Scott Supreme Court decision ruled that slaves were ___________ and could be taken anywhere.
What is property?
300
She was a reformer who fought for women's rights and against slavery. She was also the first American woman to legally keep her own last name after getting married.
Who was Lucy Stone?
300
Daily Double!!! Even though he lost the 1858 election to Congress, Abraham Lincoln _____________________, which helped him win the election for president two years later.
What is "increased his popularity"? (any answer than means the same thing will be accepted)
400
This act of Congress allowed people living in the territory to vote if they wanted to make slavery legal there or not, instead of Congress deciding if it would become a free state or a slave state.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
Daily Double!!! The Republican Party became a new political group that took a clear stand _______ slavery, until the other political parties at the time.
What is against?
400
The newspapers started calling it ________________ because of all the fighting there between pro and anti-slavery groups.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
400
John Brown was executed after being found guilty of _________, which means trying to overthrow the government.
What is treason?
400
Daily Double!!! By 1850, more than 200,000 Americans were members of one or more ____________ groups from the states in the North.
What is abolitionist?
500
Along with the value of cotton, the value of a young male slave went up by _____% between 1820 and 1850.
What is 300?
500
The North benefited economically from slavery because _______ was shipped to ______________ in the North.
What are cotton and textile factories?
500
Lincoln won the election for president by ________ votes in 1860.
What is 500,000?
500
7 states in the South decided to __________ soon after Lincoln was elected?
What is secede from the United States? (any answer that means the same thing will be accepted)
500
The ability to __________ cotton was dependent on slave labor.
What profit?