US History Ch 16--Road to Civil War

Who was NOT an abolitionist?

Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Law that divided Nebraska Territory into 2 territories were there would be popular sovereignty:

What is to withdrawal from the Union called?

Fort Sumter was located in which state?

John Brown and his followers killed pro- slavery settlers where?

What created a dividing line at 36*30 that divided the slave & free states?

Preston Brookes hit Charles Sumner with what while he was at his desk in the Senate?

What allowed California to enter the Union as a free state & created two new territories?

Dred Scott was a slave who did what?

Most controversies centered on slavery in which part of the United States?

Lincoln & Douglas ran against each other in an election for what?

This is strict laws passed on those helping runaway slaves & said all slaves must be returned?

What is the right to vote if slavery would be allowed in a territory called?

What is a conflict between opposing groups of citizens of the same country called?

The decision in the Dred Scott case was delivered by Chief Justice whom?

How many pro-slavery settlers did John Brown kill in Kansas?

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court said that:

Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin?"

What said that slaves were property & not citizens?

"Black Laws" in Kansas were aimed at stopping what?

By 1856 in "Bleeding Kansas" how many people died?

The Southern states formed a new Nation. What did they call themselves?

Who was elected as the President of the Confederate States of America?

What is a runaway or a slave trying to run away called?

Uncle Toms Cabin swayed many Northerners against?

Pro-slavery forces and abolitionists fought bloody battles in?

The Kansas-Nebraska Act cancelled?

What is a storage place for weapons and ammunition called?

Which states left the Union?

Many Northerners openly assisted fugitive slaves, ignoring what?

Preston Brook's admirers sent him a cane with the inscription....

Who made a speech in the Senate denouncing slavery & the cruelty of it?

If Abraham Lincoln became president the south threatened to do what?

The first state to secede was?

In 1859 John Brown & his followers occupied what in Harpers Ferry, Virginia?

What was NOT part of the Missouri Compromise of 1850?