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Unit 12
Decade of Crisis
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How long is a decade? | 10 years |
| An "abolitionist" is a person who? | is against slavery |
| The Ostend Manifesto: | tried to buy Cuba |
| The Compromise of 1850 | Made California a free state and passed a fugitive slave act |
| Another word for fugitive is | criminal |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe: | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| The Fugitive Slave Act: | Allowed southerners to come into the North and bring Blacks to the South |
| Two people in Uncle Tom's Cabin were | Uncle Tom and Simon LeGree |
| The slave who sued for his freedom was | Dred Scott |
| Two states that used popular sovereignty were | Kansas and Nebraka |
| Popular sovereignty means: | for people to vote if a state should be free or slave |
| Kansas nickname was: | Bleeding Kansas |
| The two groups that fought in Kansas were: | Border Ruffians and Free Soilers |
| Another word for "thug" is | Ruffian |
| Where is Harpers Ferry? | Virginia |
| What is Harper's Ferry? | A weapons depot |
| Who invaded Harpers Ferry? | John Brown |
| What is the definition of the gallows? | A place where people are hanged |
| What happened at the gallows? | John Brown was hanged |
| Where is Pottawatomie Creek? | Kansas |
| What happened at Pottawatomie Creek? | John Brown and his sons killed 5 slavery supporters |
| Define "secede" | To leave |
| Define "emancipation" | freedom |
| Who was elected president in 1860? | Abe Lincoln |
| Slave catchers operated in this AREA of the country: | North |
| What ACT opened Kansas up to slavery? | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| What compromise was ruled unconstitutional in the case of the slave suing for his freedom? | Missouri Compromise |
| Define Nationalism: | love of country |
| Define sectionalism: | love of an area of the country |
| What state was the first state to secede? | South Carolina |
| What Northern state never voted for Lincoln? | New Jersey |
| After the Dred Scott case, what happened to the Missouri Compromise? | It was ruled unconstitutional and slavery could spread everywhere |
| What was supposed to happen at Harpers Ferry? | Slaves were supposed to come and get guns |
| What was the outcome at Harpers Ferry? | No slaves came and got guns |
| What was the dominating issue of the election of 1860? | slavery |
| What became the new southern nation's name? | Confederate States of America |
| Who became the president of the new southern country? | Jefferson Davis |
| Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired? | Fort Sumter, South Carolina |
| What state is east of Kansas? | Missouri |
| Name states the seceded from the Union: | South Carolina, Alabama, Texas |
| Define "martyr": | Someone who dies for a cause |
| What person can BEST be called a martyr? | John Brown |
| Who can BEST be called the Great Compromiser? | Henry Clay |
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