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Missouri Compromise
The Compromise of 1850
Unit Vocabulary
"Bleeding Kansas"
Secession and Civil War
100

Two

What is the number of Senate seats per state in the USA?

100

Line.  Abolished in exchange for the concept of Popular Sovereignty

What is the " 36°30′"?

100

allows the people to decide: free or slave

What is Popular Sovereignty
100

Abolitionist with sons

Who is John Brown?

100

South Carolina, 1860

What is the first state to secede from the Union?

200

Maine and Missouri

What two States are admitted under the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

200

Compromise.  Washington D.C.

Where was slavery abolished (as part of the Compromise of 1850)?

200

Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri

What are the "border states"

200

"I, ______________am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood" - 1859

Who is John Brown

200

Slavery

What is the underlying cause fo the American Civil War?
300

A tool used in class to demonstrate the changing balance of power in the Senate

What is the Senate Seat Simulation?

300

Effectively "deputizes" citizens, 1850.

What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

300

To 'FREE"

What is to emancipate?

300

1854, Act...divided the land immediately west of Missouri into two territories

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

300

April 12, 1861

What was the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter?
400

“I take it for granted that the present question is a mere preamble; a title page to a great tragic volume” - 1820, Secretary of State

Who is John Quincy Adams, Missouri Compromise?

400

Caused an imbalance of Senate power

What is the bid to admit California into the Union in 1849?

400

Required registration into military service for citizens between the ages of 20 and 45...

What is conscription?

400

Bloody.  Declared a free state by popular sovereignty when admitted into the Union in 1861. 

What is Kansas?

400

Issued on January 1, 1863, declaring all slaves in areas still in rebellion were, in the eyes of the federal government, free.

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

500

 36°30′ latitude

What is the line that divided slave and free territories?

500

Proposed a series of resolutions designed to "adjust amicably all existing questions of controversy...arising out of the institution of slavery."

Who is Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky, Compromise of 1850?

500

Action of withdrawing formally from membership of...

What is secession?

500

Party, opposed the spread of slavery into the (new) territories

What is the Republican?

500

Elected as the first president of the Republican Party (1860 and 1864)

Who is Abraham Lincoln?