Activity: Election of 1860 (19th century review)

Finished in 1869, the _____________________ connected the East & West coasts of the United States

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

• Dred Scott v. Sanford case

_______________ Admitted Maine to the U.S. as a free state and Missouri as a slave state to keep the slave/free state balance in Congress

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

_________________ was a law that allowed people in these states to decided whether to permit slavery or not within their territorial borders

• Popular Sovereignty

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• John Brown's Decision

• Sovereignty Popular

• No

____________ was a person who believed in the Union or "wholeness" of the U.S., opposing any break away notions

• Abolitionist

• Unionist

• John Brown

• Unity

_____ was a radical abolitionist who raided the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry hoping to provoke a slave rebellion

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

• John Brown

• Dred Scott

A _____________ was a person who supported the movement to ban slavery

• Free Soiler

• Southern Democrat

• Republican

• Abolitionist

___________________ ruled that slaves were property and all blacks, whether free or slave, were not citizens

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Popular Sovereignty

• Dred Scott v. Sanford decision

• Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

______ required that all escaped slaves be returned to their "owners"

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Popular Sovereignty

• Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

_________ was a gradual process of migrating into and settling in western territories in North America

• Westward Expansion

• Eastward Expansion

• Weast

• Popular Sovereignty

______ was an idea that power is vested in the people - people can decide whether or not slavery should be allowed without federal intervention

• Popular Sovereignty

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Abolitionism

• Popular Expansion