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WorksheetsEvents Leading Up to the Civil War Vocab
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Named California as a free state and left other surrounding areas to vote.
The Compromise of 1850
The California Gold Rush
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Missouri Compromise
sectionalism
The act of formally withdrawing from the Union.
The party that favored popular sovereignty or was pro-slavery.
The belief that a sandwich should be divided into small portions.
Took into account sections of the country with common interests.
Missouri Compromise
Made slavery illegal in the north and kept a balance of power.
Required the Mexican Cession to be a slave free.
Promised to make Missouri a state.
Took over Missouri Compromise and split Nebraska into two popular sovereign states.
A proclamation and document asserted by a Representative stating that slavery would not exist in the newly acquired Mexican Cession.
John Wick Declaration
Wilmot Proviso
Fugitive Slave Act
Lincoln Proviso
A failed slave rebellion that led Southerner's to fear more rebellions might come.
John Brown's Raid
Uncle Tom's Rebellion
Jonesy's Bunker Raid
Dred Scott Decision
Revoked (replaced) the Missouri Compromise and split Nebraska into two popular sovereign states.
Missouri Compromise
Nebraska Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Lincoln's birthplace in Hodgenville, Kentucky
A best-selling, highly influential novel about the evils of slavery written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The cabin built from the cherry tree George Washington chopped down.
The location of John Brown's Raid.
A civil war caused by Non-residents who illegally crossed the border and voted to keep slavery in Kansas.
The Confederate States of America
John Brown's Raid
secession
Bleeding Kansas
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Highly publicized debates over slavery between Senators that united the house over the issue of slavery in the nation.
Highly publicized presidential debates between presidential candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.
Highly publicized debates about PS4 vs. Xbox between two gamers that divided the Gaming Nation further on the issue.
Highly publicized debates over slavery between two Senators that divided the house further over the issue of slavery in the nation.
Court case that viewed a once free man as a property rather than a citizen.
Dred Scott Decision
Uncle Tom's Cabin Ruling
Wilmot Proviso
John Brown Decision
The Confederate States of America
Southern states that elected Jefferson Davis as their president.
What the United States was called before the acquisition of the land west of the Mississippi River.
The act of formally withdrawing from the Union.
The party that favored popular sovereignty or was pro-slavery.
The party that favored popular sovereignty or was pro-slavery.
Republican
Democrat
Libertarian
American Independent
This law, that required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate, established a department in the government specifically for the purpose of arresting and returning fugitive slaves.
Fugitive Slave Act
Newton's Third Law
The Second Amendment
Sovereign Citizens Law
Formally leaving the union
Succession
Civil War
Exiting a bank when dressed for prom
Sectionalism
The party that united against the spread of slavery in the west.
The Republican Party
The Democratic Party
The Independent Party
The Libertarian Party
