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| What was the purchase of a part of present day Arizona and New Mexico from Mexico for $10 million called? | Gadsen Purchase |
| What is the practice of allowing the people of a territory to decide for themselves if they want slavery? | popular sovereignty |
| Who was the abolitionist, along with his sons, that attacked pro-slavery forces in Kansas and took Harper's Ferry, VA in hopes of starting a slave rebellion? | John Brown |
| What refers to the violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters in that territory? | Bleeding Kansas |
| Who sued in the court system for his freedom, but was denied by the Supreme Court? | Dred Scott |
| What measure was proposed that all new territory gained from Mexico would be free territory and was it defeated in the Senate by the South? | Wilmot Proviso |
| Who was the senator from Massachusetts that was beaten with a club in the Senate Chamber by a nephew of a Southern senator because of his speeches denouncing pro-slavery violence in Kansas? | Sumner |
| What were people called that rushed into California in the hopes of getting rich from gold that was discovered there? | Forty-niners |
| Who was an escaped slave that helped many other slaves escape through the "Underground Railroad"? | Harriet Tubman |
| Who wrote the book "The Impending Crisis" that attacked the institution of slavery for destroying the economy of the South rather that from a moral point of view? | Helper |
| Who were the very small percentage in the South that owned more than 100 slaves? | great planter class |
| Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that shocked Northerners concerning the treatment of slaves in the South? | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| What was the first group of Americans to speak out against slavery? | Quakers |
| What required federal marshalls in the North to return runaway slaves to their masters? | Fugitive Slave Act |
| What was the informal network of abolitionists who hid runaway slaves fleeing to freedom in Canada? | Underground Railroad |
| Who was the free black that surveyed the District of Columbia and tried to influence slaveowners in Washington's days to free their slaves? | Banneker |
| Who was a freed slave that helped both slaves and women by advocating equal rights for both? | Sojourner Truth |
| Who was an escaped slave that published his "Autobiography" giving a first-hand account of what it meant to be human property? | Frederick Douglass |
| Who was the slave that led a slave rebellion in Virginia in which 60 whites were killed? | Nat Turner |
| Who are individuals that worked toward the goal of eliminating slavery completely? | abolitionist |
| Where would the slave trade be abolished, according to the Compromise of 1850? | Washington DC |
| Who was the Democratic presidential candidate that won in 1856? | Buchanan |
| Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in order to make a profit from the transcontinental railroad? | Stephen Douglas |
| What Whig presidential candidate won the election of 1848? | Taylor |
| What Democratic presidential candidate won the election of 1852? | Pierce |
| What area would be admitted as a free state, according to the Compromise of 1850? | California |
| What was contained in the Compromise of 1850? | Fugitive Slave Act, slave trade in Washington DC abolished, California entered as free state, territorial governments set up in New Mexico & Utah, set boundary between Texas & New Mexico |
| Why did Southern politicians begin talking about secession? | the concern that California would enter the Union as a free state then the slaveholding states would become a minority in the Senate |
| Why did Northerners resist the Fugitive Slave Act? | the law required ordinary citizens help capture runaway slaves |
| How did the Republican Party try to gain Southern votes in the presidential election of 1860? | they denounced John Brown's raid and reaffirmed the right of Southern states to preserve slavery within their borders |
| Why is John Brown's Harpers Ferry raid considered a turning point on the road to war? | Southerners were frightened and angered by Northerners deliberately arming slaves and encouraging them to rebel |
| What efforts were made to prevent the outbreak of war? | proposed amendments to the constitution(Crittenden's Compromise) & Virginia held a peace conference |
| What border states did Lincoln try to keep in the Union? | Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland |
| Why did many members of Congress support popular sovereignty? | it removed the slavery issue from national politics & appeared democratic because settlers made the decision |
| What began when Fort Sumter was fired upon in April 1861? | the Civil War |
| What was the first Southern state to secede from the Union? | South Carolina |
| Who was the lame-duck president that did nothing when Southern states seceded? | Buchanan |
| What was the first fighting of the Civil War when Confederates took control after Major Anderson(North) surrendered here? | Fort Sumter |
| What was the capital of the Confederacy? | Richmond |
| Who was the president of the Confederacy? | Jefferson Davis |
| What Kentucky Senator offered a plan of reconciliation that was rejected by Republicans? | Crittendon |
| What Republican presidential candidate won the election in 1860? | Abraham Lincoln |
| What political party opposed slavery in the territories in the elections of 1856 & 1860? | Republican |
| From what state did Lincoln and Douglas run for US Senator? | Illinois |
| By the 1850s, what was the only country in the Western Hemisphere, besides the US, that still allowed slavery? | Brazil |
| What Southern states seceded by February 1, 1861? | Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas |
| What four Southern states seceded after Lincoln took office? | Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas |
