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Growing Tensions
The Crisis Deepens
Slavery Dominates Politics
Lincoln's Election
Hodge Podge
100
Both Northerners and Southerners agreed that this group should not be allowed to vote.
What are free African Americans?
100
This is the belief that people living in a region should decide key issues within it.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
This government body added to the tensions over slavery during the 1850s.
What is the Supreme Court?
100
This man's support for popular sovereignty split the Democrat Party.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
100
These two men had a series of debates across Illinois to be elected to the Senate.
Who are Lincoln and Douglas?
200
After the war with Mexico, Northerners believed that Southerners wanted to do this with the new land.
What is expand slavery?
200
This law, favored by white Southerners and opposed by Northerners, was designed to help return runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
Northerners were unhappy about the fate of these two people.
Who are Dred Scott and John Brown?
200
This man's views on slavery made him the best candidate for the North.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
John Brown planned to capture this arsenal in Virginia.
What is Harper's Ferry?
300
This was a proposed bill that would outlaw slavery in any land acquired from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
300
This law did away with the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
This political party was formed by antislavery politicians from different parties.
What is the Republican Party?
300
Because Southerners feared that the Republicans would abolish slavery after the election of 1860, they took this action.
What is secede from the Union?
300
This man was supported by the Southern Democrats in the election of 1860.
Who is John Breckingridge?
400
This man was responsible for getting the Compromise of 1850 passed.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
400
The Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted in this time period in which much fighting took place.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
400
Even though he lived on free soil, the Supreme Court refused to grant this man his freedom.
Who is Dred Scott?
400
This man became the president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
400

On December 20, 1860, this was the first state to secede.

What is South Carolina?

500
This political party was created to help stop the expansion of slavery.
What is the Free-Soil Party?
500
This extreme abolitionist often turned to violence to get his message across.
Who is John Brown?
500
This man, a Democrat, won the election of 1856.
Who is James Buchanan?
500
This city was the first capital of the Confederacy.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
500
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, this book portrayed the moral issue of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?