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| Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? | Thomas Jefferson |
| What religious group spoke out against slavery? | The Quakers |
| What was the name of the group that wanted to set up a separate state for slaves? | American Colonization Society |
| Where were former slaves sent? | Liberia |
| How did African Americans feel about being sent to Liberia? | Most did not like it since they were born in the United States |
| People who wanted to end slavery were called ___________. | Abolitionists |
| What were the two types of abolitionists and what was the difference between them? | Gradual wanted to end slavery gradually over time and extreme abolitionists wanted to end slavery right away |
| Who published a newpaper known as the North Star? | Frederick Douglass |
| Who were two important women in the fight against slavery? | Angelina and Sara Grimke |
| The women fighting for the freedom of slaves later fought for the rights of who? | women |
| Who led the Underground Railroad? | Harriet Tubman |
| Loyalaty to ones state or area rather than to a nation is called _____________. | Sectionalism |
| What was the Missouri Compromise? | It outlawed slavery north of the 36th parallel, also said Missouri would come in as a slave state and Maine as a free state. |
| What was the Wilmot Proviso? | It was the first rider to a bill. It called for a ban to salvery in any lands won from the Mexican Cession |
| The idea that people should vote on whether or not they wanted slavery is called what? | Popular Sovereignty |
| Antislavery people from both parties formed the _______________ Party. | Free Soil |
| Who was the first Free Soiler candidate? | Martin Van Buren |
| What state asked to come into the Union and their was debate because it would upset the balance of power? | California |
| What settled the issue of California's statehood? | The Compromise of 1850 |
| This was Daniel WEbster's famous speech to preserve the union. | Seventh of March Speech |
| What was the Comprmise of 1850? | California was a fre sate, Mexican Cession would be divided into Mexico and Utah, ended the slave trade in Washington, D.C., Fugitive Slave Law was passed. |
| What was the Fugitive Slave Law? | It required all citizens to catch and return runaway slaves, slaves had to get to Canada to be free |
| What novel showed the evils of slavery? | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Who wrote Unicle Tom's Cabin? | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | It divided Kansas and Nebraska and said that each should choose if they wanted slavery |
| There was so much violence in Kansas, it was called ____________. | Bleeding Kansas |
| People who were proslavery and from Missouri, but they crossed the border and voted illegally were called ____. | Border Ruffians |
| Did Kansas choose to be a free or a slave state? | Slave State |
| What was the Dred Scott decision? | He could not sue because he was not a citizen, states slaves wer property, said Congress could not outlaw slavery anywhere in the United States, meant the Missourt Compromise was unconstitutional. |
| What was the main goal of the Republican party? | To keep slavery from spreading |
| Who did Lincoln challenge to a series of debates when he was running for Senate? | Douglas |
| How did Douglas view the issue of slavery? | He thought is was wrong, but people should be allowed to choose. |
| HOw did Lincoln view the slavery issue? | He thought it was so wrong, it should not be left up to the people to decide, but he did not think blacks and whites were equal |
| Who won the Senate race? | Stephen Douglass |
| Who led the raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry? | John Brown |
| What did John Brown think would happen? | slaves would come and help in the revolt |
| Who put down John Brown's revolt? | Robert E. Lee |
| What happened to John Brown? | He was hanged |
| Where was the 1860 Republican Convention held? | Chicago |
| Which two people were up for the Republican nomination? | Lincoln and Seward |
| Who won the Republican nomination in 1860? | Lincoln |
| Who was the Democratic candidate in the Election of 1860? | Stephen Douglass |
| What new party formed to try and preserve the nation? | Constitutional Union Party |
| Who did the Constitutional Union Party choose as their candidate? | John Bell |
| After Llincoln won, how did Senator John Crittenden of Kentucky try to preserve the nation? | Introduced a bill to extend the Missourti Compromise Line to the Pacific |
| This term means to leave the Union. | Secede |
| What was the first state to secede? | South Carolina |
| The states that seceded formed the _____________. | Confederate States of America |
| What is a confederation? | A loose union of states |
| Who was chosen as President of the Confederacy? | Jefferson Davis |
| What two points did Lincoln make in his inagural address? | Succession from the Union was unconstitutional and he told the southern states that there wouldn't be a war, unless they started it. |
| What did the Confederacy start seizing? | Federal forts |
| Where did the Civil War start? | Fort Sumter |
