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Civil War
Events Leading to Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Missouri entered the Union as a slave state | Missouri Compromise |
| Maine entered the Union as a free state | Missouri Compromise |
| 36 degree 30 line established a boundary between free and slave regions | Missouri Compromise |
| California entered the Union as a free state | Compromise of 1850 |
| The rest of the Mexican Cession was divided into Utah and New Mexico and popular sovereignty decides the issue of slavery | Compromise of 1850 |
| Slave trade is banned in Washington D.C. | Compromise of 1850 |
| The Fugitive Slave Law requires all citizens to return slaves to their owner | Compromise of 1850 |
| Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the life of slaves suffered by cruel plantation owners | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| The purpose of the book was to use emotions to get people to take action against the issue of slavery | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Divided the rest of the Louisiana Purchase into the territories of Kansas and Nebraska | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Removed the 36 degree 30 line | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Popular sovereignty will decide the issue of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Declared slaves were not citizens of the U.S. | Dred Scott Decision |
| Declared slaves were property of their owners | Dred Scott Decision |
| Living on free soil doesn't make a slave free | Dred Scott Decison |
| Declared the 36-30 line was unconstitutional | Dred Scott Decision |
| A radical abolitionist who wanted to raid a federal armory and start a revolt to abolish slavery | John Brown's Raid |
| Debates focused on who should determine if a new state would be a free or slave state | Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
| Debates were held to see who would become the new senator for Illinois | Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
| Douglas believed in popular sovereignty to decide slavery | Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
| Lincoln believed the federal government should decide the issue of slavery | Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
| Lincoln wins the election for presidency with 40% of the popular vote | Election of 1860 |
| Lincoln had no electoral votes in 9 southern states | Election of 1860 |
| Stephen Douglas was a democrat from the North | Election of 186o |
| Abraham Lincoln was a republican from the North | Election of 1860 |
| John Breckenridge was a democrat from the South | Election of 1860 |
| John Bell was from the Constitutional Union party from the border states | Election of 1860 |
| No Southern states voted for Lincoln as president and this made the South feel powerless | Election of 1860 |
| The southerners are not impressed with either Lincoln or Douglas and prefer the Dred Scott Decision on the issue of slavery | Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
| Southerners worried other people might try to raid and kill others who wanted slavery and caused fear and unrest in the country | John Brown's Raid |
| The ruling stunned the northerners by revoking the 36-30 line and feared the spread of slavery into free states and terrotories | Dred Scott Decision |
| The fighting shifted from words to physical violence over the issue of slavery for the first time | The Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| This book evoked emotion in people to do something to stop slavery by showing the inhumane treatment of slaves | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| This was the end of the status quo,the North gains more free states than slave states in the south | Compromise of 1850 |
| The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act was the most controversial because all citizens had to return runaway slaves | Compromise of 1850 |
| The 36-30 line will eventually create more free states than slaves states but for now continues the status quo | Missouri Compromise |