Compromises and Controversies: Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, and more

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2. What compromise made Missouri a slave state, Maine a free state, and drew a line across the Louisiana Territory to determine future free states (above the line) and slave states (below the line)?

3. Missouri Compromise

4. Which compromise opened New Mexico and Utah to slavery and ended the slave trade in Washington, D.C.?

5. The Compromise of 1850

6. What state was allowed to join the Union as a free state as part of the Compromise of 1850?

7. California

8. What part of the Compromise of 1850 created the most controversy in the 1850s?

9. Passing a strong Fugitive Slave Law

10. What compromise left it up to settlers to vote on whether to permit slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska territories?

11. Kansas-Nebraska Act

12. Who was a slave that sued his master for freedom in the U.S. Supreme Court and lost?

13. Dred Scott

14. Who was a radical abolitionist who believed in using violence to end slavery?

15. John Brown

16. Who authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act, debated and beat Abraham Lincoln in a senate race, and lost to him two years later in a presidential election?

17. Stephen Douglas

18. Who led a slave rebellion that killed at least 57 people and created fear throughout the South?

19. Nat Turner

20. Who wrote the national bestselling novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

21. Harriet Beecher Stowe

22. In what year was Abraham Lincoln elected president?

23. 1860

24. What political party did Abraham Lincoln belong to?

25. Republican Party

26. What helped make Abraham Lincoln popular in the North and a national figure?

27. Lincoln-Douglas Debates

28. In his “House Divided” speech, what did Abraham Lincoln mean when he said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand”?

29. That the country could not continue to be half-free and half-slave for much longer

30. What did Lincoln say about southern secession in his first inaugural address?

31. That it was wrong and unconstitutional.

32. What does secession mean?

33. To withdraw from an organization or alliance To leave the Union To separate To break away (any of these answers)

34. What event caused the southern states to begin secession from the Union?

35. The election of Abraham Lincoln as President in 1860

36. What southern state was the first to secede from the Union?

37. South Carolina.

38. What act by the seceding states started the Civil War?

39. The attack on Fort Sumter

40. The southern states used states’ rights doctrine to justify secession. What is states’ rights doctrine?

41. The belief that states were not required to follow federal laws that they thought violated the Constitution

42. What term was used to describe the armed conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas?

43. Bleeding Kansas

44. What effect did the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin have on the slavery debate?

45. It helped turn millions of people against slavery.

46. Why did John Brown want to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?

47. He wanted to give the seized weapons to slaves in order to start a massive slave rebellion.

48. What renewed the abolitionist cause in the 1820s and 1830s?

49. Second Great Awakening

50. What is the line that serves to separate the boundaries of the North and the South?