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Which compromise made in 1820 preserved the balance between slave states and free states?
Missouri Compromise
Henry Clay's plan for slavery, passed through congress with the help of Stephen A. Douglas.
Compromise of 1850
Citizens could be jailed or fined for helping runaway slaves because of the
Fugitive Slave Act
Which part of the country would have been pleased with a more effective fugitive slave law in the Compromise of 1850?
Southerners
Which term refers to pro-slavery activists who crossed the Kansas border to vote?
border ruffians
The fight over slavery in Kansas in the years leading to the Civil War can be best described as what?
Bleeding Kansas
Which party did the Antislavery Whigs, Democrats, and Free-Soilers join together to form?
Republican Party
Who was the Supreme Court Chief Justice in the Dred Scott case?
Roger Taney
The result of the Dred Scott decision was that
slaves are property, not citizens
What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
slavery
What idea about slavery in the territories rose out of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Freeport Doctrine
Who first rose to national prominence during the Illinois Senate race of 1858?
Abraham Lincoln
Who wanted to steal weapons, bring them to local slaves and start a rebellion?
John Brown
A last-ditch effort to save the Union was the
Crittenden Plan
What event led to secession?
Lincoln's election as president
The first state to secede was
South Carolina
