Sectionalism & Civil War

How did Northerners display their feelings about the expansion of slavery in regards to lands acquired from the Mexican-American War?

• Proposal of the Wilmot Proviso

• Construction of the Underground Railroad

• Brooks-Sumner Beating in Congress

• John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry

Turmoil in Kansas over the issue of slavery was intensified and popular sovereignty failed giving it the nickname

• Freeport Doctrine

• Know-Nothing Party Platform

• LeCompton Constitution

• "Bleeding Kansas"

Abraham Lincoln served in the House of Representatives and ran for the US Senate. He propelled himself onto the national stage in the

• Voting against US declaration of war against Mexico

• Creation of the Republican Party

• Lincoln-Douglas Senatorial Debates of 1858

• Attack on Fort Sumter

The Mexican-American war increased sectional tension between the North and South because it led to more debates of 

• Expansion of slavery

• Slave Rebellions issues

• Economic crisis in the South

• Tariffs and taxes

What was the most important effect of the Dred Scott decision?

• Dred Scott, his wife, and his children were set free

• The doctrine of popular sovereignty was upheld as lawful

• Any slave taken into free territory was thereafter free.

• The Missouri Compromise was destroyed

According to the map, Why was Abraham Lincoln able to win the Presidential Election of 1860

• Addition of Consitutional Union Pary

• Split of the Democratic Party

• Slavery was disliked in the Border States

• Nation wanting to free the slaves

Lincoln's primary purpose of the Civil War

• Preserve the Union

• End Slavery

• Strengthen the power of Federal Government

• Force Slaves to Rebel against Southern slave owners

Who led the most devastating slave revolt in the South?

• Harriet Tubman

• William Still

• Nat Turner

• John Brown

Abolitionist who led the raid on Harpers Ferry and helped give "Bleeding Kansas" its name?

• William Still

• Nat Turner

• John Brown

• Chicken George

This Act made this compromise null and void

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Wilmot Proviso

• Tariff Act