Unit 4 Events Leading to the Civil War

In 1852, a book titled Uncle Tom's Cabin was published and the result was that it divided the country even more.

The Missouri Compromise was the nation's first attempt at addressing slavery since the writing of the Constitution.

What did the Wilmot Proviso say about the territories in the Mexican Cession ?(remember, it failed)

Who is ranked dead last in the Presidential Power Rankings?

The basic ideas behind Lincoln's First Inaugural Address were that the North and South had a shared history and unity

In the 1857 case of Dred Scott v. Sanford, the Supreme Court ruled that:

Which of the following was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850?

The Compromise of 1850 called for popular sovereignty in two new states and split the Democratic Party

In May 1856 who gave the Crimes Against Kansas speech and called Senators Stephen Douglas and Andrew Butler villians?

In 1846 the U.S. and Great Britain decided that Oregon country should be

What was the first state to secede, or break away from the Union?

What was Lincoln's opinion about slavery?

Why were personal liberty laws passed by states? What were they trying to avoid/ignore?

Who was the Northern Democratic Party candidate 4 President in the election of 1860 & author of the Kansas Nebraska Act?

Who was a former U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and later became the president of the Confederate States of America?

The slavery question became a major issue in the 1840s and 1850s because the...

Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?

Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election without winning a single Northern state.

Believing he was an instrument of god to end slavery, who killed 5 proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek in KS?

Who lost the Illinois Senate election in 1858 and gave the speech, "A House Divided by itself cannot stand" speech?

What effects did the Dred Scott case have on the nation?

The cause of Bleeding Kansas was what?

Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who issued the majority opinion in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?

The Missouri Compromise was the nation's first attempt to address the issue of slavery since the Constitution.

Popular Sovereignty said the decision if a territory shold be free of slave should be made by...

The Republican Party platform ideas included...

In 1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin was published which demonstrated how bad slavery really was. Who was the author?

Which President was a strong supporter of Manifest Destiny who's slogan was "54-50 or Fight!"?

The Missouri Compromise said that Missouri would come in as a slave state and Maine would come in as a free state.

The Harper's Ferry raid was supposed to be the first step in...