Road to the Civil War Review

What is the term for the group that helped slaves escape to the North?

Everything in this Unit is leading to what major conflict?

What Compromise/Act created Kansas and Nebraska and allowed for popular sovereignty in those states?

Members of the Free Soil Party would help form what party in 1854?

What is the name of the new nation in the South?

What law stated that slaves must be returned to their owners, even if they lived in a free state?

Who attempted to free the slaves in an armed uprising by raiding Harper's Ferry?

The term "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" is a response to what issue?

What was the first state to succeed from the Union?

Who won the election of 1860?

The party that formed in 1848 to oppose the expansion of slavery was called what?

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This is the name given to pro-slavery democrats that wished for Southern succession into a new nation

The Union advantage of moving supplies and troops quickly is what?

Abraham Lincoln became a household name via a series of debates against who?

What was one of the issues that led to Texas declaring its independence from Mexico?

What Compromise made California a free state, banned the slave trade in DC, and opened New Mexico and Utah to Pop Sov?

What was NOT an advantage of the Confederacy during the Civil War?

The term that states that new states should determine if they want slavery or not is called what?

What of the following is NOT one of the rulings in the Dred Scott Case?

What resulted from the flooding of Pro and Anti-Slavery party members to Kansas?

The Dred Scott Case declared what was now unconstitutional?

Why was Texas becoming a state an issue to America?

The idea that America was destined by God to claim all land in North America was called what?

What was a reason as to why the Mexican-American War took place?

What treaty ended the Mexican-American War