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This term allowed citizens to choose if their state would become a slave or free state
popular sovereignty
California became a free state under this law
Compromise of 1850
Any African-American could be accused under this law
Fugitive Slave Act
This law organized the Nebraska Territory
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Confederate Constitution guaranteed states two things. What is one of them?
each state was independent and slavery was guaranteed in the Confederate territory
Why did John Brown attack the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry?
to give weapons to slaves to incite an insurrection (rebellion) against slaveholders
The Dred Scott Decision ruled part of what law unconstitutional?
Missouri Compromise
After Ft. Sumter was fired upon, Lincoln called for troops. How did this cause trouble for him with the Southern states?
Southern states felt they had no choice but to leave the Union
In 1861, the Confederacy moved the capital to what city and state?
Richmond, Virginia
What was the Republican Party's stance on slavery?
Republican Party opposed slavery
This novel changed the ideas of people in the North about slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What is the term called when a state leaves the Union?
secession
What law prompted people to go to this state to choose whether the state was pro or anti-slavery?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What was the state that Lincoln wanted to prevent becoming a slave state so that the U.S. capital would not be surrounded by Confederate states?
Maryland
The former slave helped organize the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Lincoln declared that the Union would hold on to federal property in the Southern states. What was he wanted to hold on to?
Fort Sumter
