Sectional Tensions

Which group was most supportive of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?

Which event of 1859 set off waves of panic in the South over possible slave uprisings?

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 do?

Which political party won the presidential election of 1860

Which abolitionist politician was brutally beaten on the Senate floor by an enraged pro-slavery congressman?

What event of the 1840s expanded U.S. territory and thus reignited sectional tensions?

Which of the following best describes the main aim of the Republican Party in the 1850s?

Approximately how many southern families owned slaves in the 1850s?

Aside from the Fugitive Slave Law, what was the main thing that the South got in the Compromise of 1850?

Why was Illinois Senator Stephen Douglass so eager to organize the Kansas and Nebraska territories?

Which fundamental U.S. document did William Lloyd Garrison reject as tainted by slavery?

What territory saw bloody conflict between pro- and anti-slavery settlers in the late 1850s?

Which Supreme Court case forced slavery into all U.S. territories?

Aside from the entry of California as a free state, what else did the North get in the Compromise of 1850?

What new political party was created in 1854 to oppose the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

How did Harriet Beecher Stowe make her biggest impact on American history?

Who won the presidency after running on a "Manifest Destiny" platform in 1844?