Chapter 8: Sectional Conflict Intensifies

The law administered by military forces that is invoked by a government in an emergency

An act of rebellion against the established government

What battle marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Abolitionist who had a plan to seize the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry

The practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the legislature

Milliard Fillmore was President at the start of the Civil War

Who did the Wilmot Proviso outrage?

Participated in debates with Lincoln in Illinois

The rise in California's population enabled it to become a state.  What helped gain population?

Stephen Douglas divided Clay's bills into smaller parts

Who was the Supreme Court Justice who ruled over the Dred Scott Decision?

What was "Bleeding Kansas?"

Who was chosen as the President of the Confederacy?

Abolitionist who gave a speech accusing pro-slavery senators 

Withdrawal from the Union

What party was officially organized in 1854?

Delaware was a Union State

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act propose?

North Carolina was a border state

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

People living in a territory had the right to decide by voting whether to allow slavery

What is a "border ruffian?"

Harriet Tubman was best known conductor of the Underground Railroad

Which state was the first to secede?

Kansas was a Union State

A railway system extending across the continent