Which section of the country most favored the Wilmot Proviso?
the North
What word describes a state leaving the Union?
secede/seccession
Who managed to pass the Compromise of 1850 as seperate bills?
Senator Stephen Douglas
Who was the most famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Who was the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin?"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The American (or Know Nothing) Party was most concerned with what issue?
immigration
Who was the editor of the New York Herald who helped found the Republican Party?
Horace Greeley
What was the topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
slavery in the territories
Which slave states did not join the Confederacy?
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware
Why was the South dependant on slavery?
Its economy was dominated by plantation agriculture.
Why did Northern states pass personal liberty laws?
To make it difficult to return runaway slaves to the South.
What was the worst Supreme Court decision in US history?
The Dred Scott Decision
What was the result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Kansas and Nebraska were organized according to popular sovereignty.
What was Abraham Lincoln's position on slavery in 1858?
Slavery was morally and politically wrong and needed to be confined to where it already existed.
Who was the abolitionist who tried to start a slave uprising?
John Browne
Who did the Northern Democrats nominate for president in 1860?
Stephen Douglas
