Chapter 8: Sectional Conflict Intensifies

Kansas was a Union State

Participated in debates with Lincoln in Illinois

Who did the Wilmot Proviso outrage?

Who was chosen as the President of the Confederacy?

Stephen Douglas divided Clay's bills into smaller parts

Abolitionist who gave a speech accusing pro-slavery senators 

An act of rebellion against the established government

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

Withdrawal from the Union

What is a "border ruffian?"

What party was officially organized in 1854?

What battle marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Harriet Tubman was best known conductor of the Underground Railroad

A railway system extending across the continent

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

North Carolina was a border state

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

Milliard Fillmore was President at the start of the Civil War

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act propose?

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

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

Delaware was a Union State

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

What was "Bleeding Kansas?"

Which state was the first to secede?

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