Taxes placed on imported goods that the north supported to allow people to buy manufactured goods from their factories.

Law that allowed the people to decide whether to allow slavery in the territories north of the Missouri Compromise line

Law passed in 1850 that required citizens to catch runaway slaves and return them to the South; judges earned $10 per slave returned to the South

Belief that it is more important to focus on your area then the nation as a whole.

The abolitionist who planned a slave revolt by attacking the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, VA and was captured and later executed for his involvement in "Bleeding Kansas" was...

Which political party was established in 1854 as an anti-slavery party?

In what year did the Civil War begin with the firing upon Ft. Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina?

The act of withdrawing from an organized body is known as...

"We think they [people of African ancestry] are...not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word 'citizen' in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States."

The excerpt above is taken from the 1857 landmark U.S. Supreme Court case known as...