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Slavery vs. Freedom in West
Bloodshed in Kansas
The South Breaks Away
Politics
Grab Bag
100
This term means people feel loyalty to their state or section.
Sectionalism
100
The Kansas-______________ Act followed the Missouri Compromise.
Nebraska
100

This term means a war between people of the same country

Civil War

100

He was the Republican nominee in 1860

Abraham Lincoln

100
This term means runaway.
Fugitive
200

This idea that the people get to make the decisions

Popular Sovereignty

200

This man led a group who killed 5 pro-slavery men in the Pottawatomie Massacre

John Brown

200

He was named the president of the new southern nation

Jefferson Davis

200
This senator was beaten in response to his speech "The Crime Against Kansas"

Charles Sumner

200

This is where the arsenal that John Brown attacked was located

Harpers Ferry, Virginia

300
This drew an imaginary line that helped keep slave states and free states equal.
Missouri Compromise
300

Battles between pro- and anti-slavery groups earned the state this nickname

Bleeding Kansas

300

This was the first southern state to secede

South Carolina

300

This is who Lincoln ran against for Senate in Illinois in 1858

Stephen Douglas

300

Name two conditions of the Compromise of 1850.

1. California is a free state

2. Mexican Cession decided by popular sovereignty

3. Texas gives up land and has debt paid

4. slave trade ends in D.C.

5. new Fugitive Slave Act

400
This group had the motto: "Free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men."
Free Soil Party
400
This court case had to do with a slave whose owner had died while living in a free state. It challenged the Missouri Compromise.
Dred Scott Decision
400
This was the name the states that seceded gave themselves.
Confederate States of America
400
Why did the Democratic Party split?
Divided on issue of slavery. Didn't want to be strictly for one or the other.
400

Who wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

500
Explain how the Mexico Cession affected the issue of slavery.
Lands gained in the cession had to determine whether or not to have slavery there.
500

Pro-slavery bands from Missouri that illegally voted and battled abolitionists were known as this

Border Ruffians

500

By March 1861 six more southern states had seceded - name 4

Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas

500

Name all four candidates in the election of 1860.

Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckenridge, John Bell

500

What were the punishments for not following the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.

Fine and imprisonment