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This act opened Kansas and Nebraska territories to slavery by applying popular sovereignty.

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act

100

Supreme Court Justice that wrote the Dred Scott Decision.

Roger Taney

100
This new group pledged to a "national platform of freedom" and promised "free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men"
What is the Free Soil Party?
100
This was the first state to leave the union.
What is South Carolina?
100

What do we call the attack that saw the Free State Hotel burned and 2 printing presses destroyed?

Sack of Lawrence

200
Term used to describe the 1854-1856 violence between proslavery and antislavery supporters in Kansas.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
200
In 1852, published Uncle Tom's Cabin that sold 300,000 copies and spread compassion for slaves.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200

This idea allowed voters of a territory to decide on the issue of slavery.

What is popular sovereignty?

200

This was formed in February of 1861.

What are the Confederate States of America?

200

About how many people were killed during Bleeding Kansas attacks?

About 60

300
Allowed California to be admitted as a free state and popular sovereignty would be used in New Mexico and Utah and also enacted a stronger fugitive slave law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300

An abolitionist who executed 5 people in Kansas.

Who is John Brown?

300

This election had Democrats split on the issue of slavery and brought together another political party.

What is the Election of 1860?

300

This man was elected President of the Confederate States of America.

Who is Jefferson Davis?

300

Explain one of the arguments against Dred Scott in the Supreme Court decision.

1.  Dred Scott was a slave and slaves are not considered citizens.

2.  Only a citizen can bring a case to a federal court.

3.  The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional since it limited where someone could take their property (slaves).

400
1846 bill that would have banned slavery in the territory won from Mexico in the Mexican-American War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
400
This man was a slave who sued for his own freedom after his master took him to live in a free state.
Who is Dred Scott?
400

Some Whigs, Democrats, Free-Soilers, and abolitionists formed this political party in 1854,

What is the Republican Party?

400

This attack left Southerners, both slave owners and non-slave owners afraid for their safety.

Raid at Harper's Ferry

400

What was the name of the first real battle in the Kansas Territory between two opposing forces of comparable strength?

The Battle of Black Jack?

500

Law that required private citizens assist with apprehending runaway slaves and made it illegal to help runaway slaves in any way.

What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

500
Politician from Illinois who supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act and popular sovereignty and was Lincoln's rival.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
500

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas first ran against each other for this office in 1858.

Senate seat for Illinois

500

What was Abraham Lincoln's plan for handling slavery in the United States?

He would not try to abolish it where it already existed, but would not allow it to spread to new area.

500

In which month and year was Abraham Lincoln sworn in as President of the United States?

March, 1861.