Toward Civil War

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  1. 4. This party was also called the American Party.
  2. 5. This act was passed in 1850 requiring citizens to help catch runaway slaves.
  3. 6. Rights and powers independependent of the federal government that are reserved for the states by the constitution.
  4. 7. What party did Abraham Lincoln belong to?
  5. 9. In 1820 this temporarily resolved the problem of making sure that the balance of slave states and free states remain the same.
  6. 12. This party ended after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed which began to separate the Democratic Party.
  7. 13. In 1859 John Brown attacked an arsenal storage facility located in this Virginia city.
  8. 14. This African American slave sued the government trying to gain his freedom.
  9. 15. What town was attacked in 1856 by 800 slavery supporters?
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  1. 1. Who ordered Confederate troops to attack Fort Sumter?
  2. 2. This party supported the Wilmot Proviso which banned the spread of slavery into the new territories.
  3. 3. The political theory that the government is subject to the will of the people.
  4. 8. In 1861 Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Georgia joined South Carolina and formed these.
  5. 10. In 1949 Henry David Thoreau wrote this protesting the Fugitive Slave Act.
  6. 11. A person who sacrifices his or her own life for a cause is known as this.