Jackson to lincoln

_______________ 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 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

___________________ 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)

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

• Free Soiler

• Southern Democrat

• Republican

• Abolitionist

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

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Popular Sovereignty

• Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

______ 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

Who was the Republican candidate in 1860?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas

• John Breckinridge

• John Bell

Democrats chose ________ as their candidate in 1860.

• Stephen Douglass

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• James K. Polk

Stephen Douglass felt that the issue of slavery should be decided through...

• an act of the US Congress

• each state's congress

• popular sovereignty

• the Individual Freedom Act