Transcript Chapter 21 Jeopardy

Compromise
Important
People
Abraham
Lincoln
Secession
Surprise Me
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What compromise made
Missouri a slave state,
Maine a free state, and
drew a line across the
Louisiana Territory to
determine future free
states (above the line)
and slave states (below
the line)?
Missouri Compromise
Which compromise
opened New Mexico
and Utah to slavery
and ended the slave
trade in
Washington, D.C.?
The Compromise
of 1850
What state was
allowed to join
the Union as a
free state as part
of the
Compromise of
1850?
California
What part of the
Compromise of
1850 created the
most
controversy in
the 1850s?
Passing a strong
Fugitive Slave Law
What compromise left
it up to settlers to vote
on whether to permit
slavery in the Kansas
and Nebraska
territories?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who was a slave that
sued his master for
freedom in the U.S.
Supreme Court and
lost?
Dred Scott
Who was a radical
abolitionist who
believed in using
violence to end
slavery?
John Brown
Who authored the
Kansas-Nebraska Act,
debated and beat
Abraham Lincoln in a
senate race, and lost
to him two years later
in a presidential
election?
Stephen Douglas
Who led a slave
rebellion that killed
at least 57 people and
created fear
throughout the
South?
Nat Turner
Who wrote the
national bestselling
novel Uncle Tom’s
Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
In what year was
Abraham Lincoln
elected president?
1860
What political party did
Abraham Lincoln
belong to?
Republican Party
What helped make
Abraham Lincoln
popular in the North
and a national figure?
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
In his “House Divided”
speech, what did
Abraham Lincoln
mean when he said,“A
house divided against
itself cannot stand”?
That the country could
not continue to be halffree and half-slave for
much longer
What did Lincoln say
about southern
secession in his first
inaugural address?
That it was wrong and
unconstitutional.
What does secession
mean?
To withdraw from an
organization or alliance
To leave the Union
To separate
To break away
(any of these answers)
What event caused the
southern states to begin
secession from the
Union?
The election of
Abraham Lincoln as
President in 1860
What southern state
was the first to secede
from the Union?
South Carolina.
What act by the
seceding states started
the Civil War?
The attack on Fort Sumter
The southern states
used states’ rights
doctrine to justify
secession. What is
states’ rights doctrine?
The belief that states
were not required to
follow federal laws that
they thought violated
the Constitution
What term was used to
describe the armed
conflict between proslavery and antislavery forces in
Kansas?
Bleeding Kansas
What effect did the
novel Uncle Tom’s
Cabin have on the
slavery debate?
It helped turn
millions of people
against slavery.
Why did John Brown
want to seize the
federal arsenal at
Harpers Ferry,
Virginia?
He wanted to give the
seized weapons to slaves
in order to start a massive
slave rebellion.
What renewed the
abolitionist cause in the
1820s and 1830s?
Second Great Awakening
What is the line that
serves to separate the
boundaries of the North
and the South?
Mason-Dixon Line