Final Review: Antebellum America & Outbreak of Civil War

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  1. 3. The time period before the war
  2. 5. (Last name only) The person who won the Election of 1860
  3. 6. The Dred Scott Decision was made by the...
  4. 7. What Lincoln said he would do about slavery in his inaugural address
  5. 10. This law prohibited Congress from debating slavery
  6. 13. The free state added by the Compromise of 1850
  7. 16. (last name only) This person wrote an "Appeal" that encouraged enslaved people to obtain freedom by any means necessary
  8. 17. The belief that America was entitled by God to overspread and take over the continent
  9. 18. The American Anti Slavery Society was willing to give this up for abolition and racial eqaulity
  10. 21. (last name only) This person was enslaved, but after obtaining his freedom went on to write an autobiography, go on a speaking tour, and more to promote abolition
  11. 24. The treaty that ended the Mexican American War
  12. 25. (last name only) This man started a violent rebellion to free himself and others
  13. 29. (last name only) The name of the anti-slavery Congressman who was beaten on the senate floor
  14. 30. Lincoln's political party
  15. 33. (last name only) This person wrote the newspaper "The Liberator"
  16. 34. The town in Kansas that was sacked; significant in Bleeding Kansas
  17. 37. To formally leave a country
  18. 38. The free state added by the Missouri Compromise
  19. 39. Besides keeping the balance of slave and free states, this compromise drew a line at the 36'30 to divide the country into a free north and slave south
  20. 42. This area of the country was made up of slave states
  21. 43. (last name only) This person escaped slavery and then became a conductor for the Underground Railroad.
  22. 44. This act repealed the Missouri Compromise line and allowed more of the country to be open to slavery
  23. 45. This section of the United States includes modern day Washington and Oregon
  24. 46. This section of the United States was the last part added, it is located south of the Mexican Cession
  25. 48. This compromise allowed some states to vote on if they would or would not allow slavery AND banned the slave trade in Washington DC
  26. 49. The last name of the Confederacy president
  27. 50. The Texas _______ made Texas an official state
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  1. 1. The first state to secede from the US
  2. 2. The Texas _______ led to Texas becoming an independent country
  3. 4. These laws were passed to counter the Fugitive Slave Act
  4. 8. The location of John Brown's Raid
  5. 9. This refers to the forced transportation of African people to the Americas for the purpose of slavery
  6. 11. The violence that occured in the former Louisiana Territory after 1854 is referred to as...
  7. 12. The Gag Rule violated this amendment
  8. 14. The slave state added by the Missouri Compromise
  9. 15. To be freed from slavery
  10. 19. According to the vice president of the Confederacy, this is the foundation of the nation
  11. 20. The state that threatened to secede over the Tariff of 1828 and later was the first state to secede from the Union
  12. 22. (Last name only) This person wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
  13. 23. The pro-slavery country that was made up of southern states
  14. 26. The Dred Scott decision ruled that no African Americans were ____
  15. 27. This act forced citizens to help capture escaped enslaved people and return them to the south
  16. 28. The Kansas Nebraska Act and the Compromise of 1850 both allowed territories to ___ regarding slavery
  17. 31. (last name only) This person used their background to appeal to people like themselves, writing "An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South"
  18. 32. In this state, there was a law that made it impossible to live in the state and be free as an African American
  19. 35. This area of the country was made up of free states
  20. 36. Local and state laws that tried to limit the rights of free and enslaved African Americans
  21. 40. This refers to the United States domestic slave trade
  22. 41. This added most of the Southwest United states to the country (New Mexico, Utah, California, etc)
  23. 47. This man sued for his freedom