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2. Miss Villecco – Riverside Middle School Social Studies

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4. Slavery in the territories Compromise of 1850 Crisis Deepens Republican Party, A Nation Divides 200 300 400 100 200 300 400 100 200 300 400 100 200 300 400 100 200 300 400 Categories and amounts 100

5. Plan proposed by Henry Clay to keep the number of slave and free states equal. Missouri Compromise

6. Proposed law to ban slavery in lands won from Mexico. Wilmot Proviso

7. Political party created to keep slavery out of western territories. Free-Soil party

8. The right of people to create their own government. The people decide! popular sovereignty

9. Henry Clay’s plan that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into territories of New Mexico and Utah. Compromise of 1850

10. Fighting between people of the same country. civil war

11. To leave or withdraw from a group. secede

12. A novel that described the evils of slavery Uncle Tom’s Cabin

13. A runaway slave was called fugitive

14. This law required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves. Fugitive Slave Act

15. This was a Supreme Court Case that led to the decision that enslaved people were not allowed to file lawsuits. Dred Scott v. Sanford

16. Proslavery settlers who battled the antislavery forces in Kansas were called Border Ruffians

17. Newspapers called the territory “__________________” after violence and numerous deaths occurred there in 1856. Bleeding Kansas

18. This was a new political party started by Free- Soilers, northern Democrats, and antislavery Whigs. (Dominic supports this group) the Republican Party

19. Who led a raid of the arsenal at Harpers Ferry in hope to lead a slave uprising? John Brown

20. This Republican won the presidential election of 1860. Abraham Lincoln

21. The first state to secede from the Union. South Carolina

22. This man was the president of the Confederate States of America. Jefferson Davis

23. Shelled by Confederate troops on April 12, 1861, marked the beginning of civil war. Fort Sumter

24. Chorus from “John Brown’s Body” a folk song: “John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave, But his soul goes marching on.” Who would have been most likely to sing this song? abolitionist

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