Ch. 15 Toward Civil War

In 1858, which state's Senate race captured the attention of the country?

Where is Fort Sumter located?

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America

Used by Southerners to justify secession, what is the belief that states hold more power than national government?

Where did John Brown attempt to start a slave revolt?

Who tried to rob a federal armory in order to arm slaves and start a slave revolt?

Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, nullifying the Missouri Compromise?

The 36'30'N Lattitude line determined what in the Missouri Compromise?

What is a storage site of weapons and ammunition?

Which political party hoped to end slavery?

Which proposed plan prohibited slavery from all lands acquired from Mexico?

Why was the Missouri Compromise needed?

The Fugitive Slave Act led to...

In addition to the issue of slavery, what problem did the Missouri Compromise try to solve?

"Bleeding Kansas" was a series of violent events stemming from what work of Congress?

Who was Dred Scott?

Under what compromise was the state of Maine added to the Union?

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

The banning of slave trade in Washington DC was a part of which plan?

Who were armed slave holders from Missouri who traveled to Kansas to vote in their election?

Shortly after the election of 1860, who proposed a last-minute compromise to preserve the Union?

Who was beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks for an anti-slavery speech?

What is loyalty to a particular region of the country?