Sectionalism

This compromise admitted one slave state, and one free state. Additionally, it designated the status of future states in the region as off limits to slavery or open to slavery.

• Maine Compromise

• Louisiana Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

This compromise admitted California as a free state a year after the gold rush:

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Nullification Crisis

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Who was elected President in 1860?

• Stephen Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Bell

• John Breckinridge

This law required the return of runaway slaves even in free states and affected free African-Americans as well.

• Runaway and Return Act

• Underground Railroad Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Southern Slave Act

This individual sued his slave owner for his freedom but lost his case as was declared a slave for life.

• Frederick Douglass

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Dred Scott

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

How did South Carolina respond after the election of Abraham Lincoln as president?

• It demanded an immediate recount of popular and electoral votes.

• It seceded and called on Southern states to do the same.

• It called for the immediate impeachment of President Lincoln.

• It demanded that the Supreme Court declare the election null and void.

A result of the Confederacy’s creation in early 1861 was that

• Southern states declared themselves independent from the US.

• John Breckinridge led the meeting to write a Confederate Constitution.

• Texas decided to remain a part of the United States.

• Lincoln quickly declared war against the Confederacy.

What does secession mean?

• to join

• to acquire

• to leave

• to change

What state was the first to secede from the Union?

• Texas

• North Carolina

• South Carolina

• Virginia

What event occurred right before the southern states started to secede?

• Lincoln elected president

• Slavery was outlawed in the North

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850