In the Missouri Compromise of 1820 _________ was admitted as a slave state.
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In the Missouri Compromise of 1820 ________ became a free state.
Maine
The rest of the Louisiana Territory was divided at the _________ latitude line.
36 ' 30
All new states formed north of the line would be _________ states.
free
__________ would be permitted in new states south of the line.
slavery
In the Compromise of 1850 _______ was admitted as a free state.
California
The rest of the Mexican Cession was divided into the ________ Territory and the _________ Territory.
Utah, New Mexico
The people of these territories, according to the idea of _________________ would decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery.
popular sovereignty
Congress passed a stronger ___________ law to force Northerners to help return runaway slaves.
Fugitive slave
Slaves could no longer be bought or sold in ____________.
Washington D.C.
Congress passed a bill proposed by Senator Stephen A. Douglas which created the territories of ________ and _______.
Kansas, Nebraska
The people in these areas, by the principle of ___________ would decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery.
popular sovereignty
The Kansas-Nebraska Act replaced the ___________ which had closed the norther part of the Louisiana Territory to slavery.
Missouri Compromise
The CSA's Constitution was modeled after the _________ and had only a few differences.
U.S. Constitution
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at __________.
Font Sumter
The name of the new nation formed by the states that seceded from the US was the __________.
Confederate states of America
__________ attacked a fellow Congressman on the Senate floor to defend his relative.
Preston Brooks
Lincoln won the Election of 1860 with only support from the _______ states.
Northern
____________ was the Democratic candidate for the President in 1856, he won election because he appealed to both the N and S.
James Buchanan
Lincoln received approx ______% of the popular vote in the Election of 1860.
40
__________ is best known for his violent actions in Kansas and attempted a slave revolt at Harper's Ferry.
John Brown
The ________ compromise proposed extending the Missouri Compromise to solve the slavery issue.
crittenden
The 1858 senate race in the state of ________ made Abraham Lincoln a national figure.
Illinois
During this time period the debate of slavery led to the creation of new _________.
political parties
Southern states believed that they had the right to secede based on the idea of _________.
Southern states believed that they had the right to secede based on the idea of _________.
The word ________ means to withdraw or leave the union.
secede
__________ was the leader of the US army forces sent to stop John Brown at Harper's Ferry.
Robert E. Lee
The Confederate States of America elected _____________ as their president.
Jefferson Davis
_________ wrote a novel that described the cruelty and immorality of slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The first states to secede from the US was __________.
South Carolina
__________ proposed a bill to ban slavery in a territories won in the Mexican War.
David Wilmant
_________ was the Republican Party's first candidate for President, he lost the election of 1856.
John C. Fremont
_________ is an abolitionist senator who was attacked after speaking out against slavery.
Charles Sumner
________ created both the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850, but had help from Stephen Douglas getting the Compromise of 1850 passed.
Henry Clay
After hours of bombardment the _____ surrendered Fort Sumter to their enemy.
North
The _________ was made of people from northern Whigs, abolitionists, and Free-soil party members.
Republican Party
________ is a slave whose Supreme Court case had wide-reaching impact on the nation.
Dred Scott
________ won most of the southern states in the Election of 1860, but did not have enough electoral votes to beset out Lincoln.
John Breckenridge
According to South, John Brown was a ______.
murderer
John Brown at his trial admitted to only one crime ---- trying to free the slaves BUT ---- believed he was right because he was following the law of ________.
god
In Kansas, _________ murdered 5 pro-slavery people.
John Brown
According to the north, __________ was a hero.
John Brown
Charles Sumner was attacked in the Senate with a __________ by Preston Brooks.
cane
John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry was NOT a success, because the _________ rose up against him.
towns people
Harriet Beecher ______ wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Stowe
The debate over slavery led to the creation of a new _________ party.
political
In the Dred Scott ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress had no right to ________ in any territory.
outlaw slavery
The _______ thought that Uncle Tom's Cabin was all lies, because the author had never seen slavery first hand.
south
The 1848 election was the first time ______ was an issue.
slavery