Toward Civil War: CH14 Lesson 1

name used in 1856 newspaper stories about events in Lawrence, Kansas

• 36° 30’ North latitude

• John Brown

• Compromise of 1850

• “Bleeding Kansas”

put the issue of slavery to popular vote

•  “Bleeding Kansas”

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• John Brown

included the Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• John Brown

• 36° 30’ North latitude

the line that marked the division between slave states and non-slave states

•  Kansas-Nebraska Act

• 36° 30’ North latitude

• Compromise of 1850

• John Brown

violent abolitionist

• John Brown

• John Wayne

• Zachary Taylor

• Sam Houston

The Wilmot Proviso called for

• the election of Martin Van Buren.

• banning slavery in any lands the U.S. acquired from Mexico.

• California entering the Union as a slave state.

• a pro-slavery government in Kansas.

What approach did Senator Stephen A. Douglas propose as an alternative to the Missouri Compromise?

• Gadsden Purchase

• Texas-Maine Act

• popular sovereignty

• free soil

Pro-slavery activists who crossed the Kansas border to vote were called

• border patrollers.

• border ruffians.

• Iowans

• Missourians.

In which state did rival pro-slavery and antislavery governments exist at the same time?

• California

• Kansas

• Missouri

• Texas

What is the name for a war between citizens of the same country?

• undeclared war

• inter-country war

• cold war

• civil war