Question | Answer |
These people created much hatred and resentment in the South as they demanded an immediate end to slavery. | What were the abolitionists? |
I caused a panic in the South after I rebelled against my master showing that blacks were not satisfied with our lives as slaves. | Who was Nat Turner? |
I argued to the Supreme Court that since I was taken into free territory, I should be a free man. | Who was Dredd Scott? |
I tried to begin a slave revolt in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. | Who was John Brown? |
President Lincoln said when meeting me,"So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!" | Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe? |
This overrode the Missouri Compromise and led Northerners to worry that slavery would “march across the land.” | What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act? |
I outlawed the slave trade in Washington D.C. and admitted California into the Union as a ‘free state.’ I also opened the Mexican Cession to slavery and created the Fugitive Slave law. | What is the Compromise of 1850? |
This proposal in Congress tried to prohibit slavery in the Mexican Cession acquired by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. | What was the Wilmot Proviso? |
I am the President of the Confederacy.,Who is Jefferson Davis?, I was the first state to leave the United States Union and I am the state where the first shots were fired in the Civil War. | What is South Carolina (at Fort Sumter)? |
I forced the North to make a choice about slavery…follow the law and support slavery or oppose slavery, but face the consequences. | What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850? |
The is the constitutional principle of ‘people rule’ used in the Kansas territory causing “Bleeding Kansas.” | What is popular sovereignty? |
This series of discussions in the 1858 Illinois senate race defined the arguments for and against slavery’s expansion for the nation. | What were the Lincoln – Douglass Debates? |
It was very important to keep this even between the North and South in the U.S. House and Senate. | What is the “balance of power”? |