Chapter 3: Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction

What was one success of Reconstruction?

In 1848, northern opponents of slavery formed the _____.

Resentment against the Fugitive Slave Act spurred Harriet Beecher Stowe to write, _____.

Republican _____ challenged Senator Stephen Douglas, a Democrat to a series of debates.

Congress passed the _____ , which divided the Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska.

The _____ called for a ban on slavery in any territory that the US gained from Mexico.

Whom did the Confederacy choose as its president?

To ease southern concerns, Congress debated and then passed the _____.

The 13th Amendment

Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction aimed primarily to

New York abolitionist, _____ conducted a midnight raid on the proslavery settlement.

What advantage did the South have in the Civil War?

The Emancipation Proclamation