Road to Disunion Quiz

During this crisis the state of South Carolina claimed that it had to the power to declare federal laws did not apply to the state, and, if the federal government tried to enforce the law, South Carolina would leave the United States.

• California Statehood Crisis

• Missouri Crisis

• Nullification Crisis

• Stamp Act Crisis

Northerners were upset because this law repealed the Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Gag Rule

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Tariff of Abominations

This slave revolt in Virginia set back efforts to emancipated enslaved people in that state

• Christiana Riot

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• The Stono Uprising

• Vesey's Rebellion

the American Anti-Slavery Association attempted to flood the South with abolitionist literature in this campaign

• Great Postal Campaign

• Presidential Election of 1840

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Saratoga Campaign

An attempt made in Congress to require that slavery would be barred from any territory the U.S. received through the war with Mexico

• 3/5 Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Ostend Manifesto

• Wilmot Proviso

This attempted to settle issues regarding slavery when California tried to enter the United States as a Free State

• Compromise of 1850

• Crittenden Compromise

• Great Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

During the 1860 election, which candidate ran as a Republican

• John Bell

• John Breckinridge

• Stephen Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln

Through this Compromise in 1820 slavery was barred in U.S. territories north of 36 degrees N. Latitude

• 3/5 Compromise

• Great Compromise

• Illinois Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

This law brought slavery to the full atention of the Northern people because it had provisions which required people to help recapture freedom seekers (fugitive slaves)

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraksa Act

• Underground Railroad Act

• Wilmot Proviso

When a federal marshall led a raid to capture 4 freedom seekers (fugitive slaves) in this town, it led to riot which successfully resisted the efforts to return people to slavery

• Baltimore

• Christiana

• New York

• Philadelphia