2. Chapter 14 “A Divided Nation ” Ms. Monteiro

3. 100 200 400 300 400 Debate over Slavery Trouble in Kansas Political Divisions Grab Bag 300 200 400 200 100 500 100 200 300 400 The Nation Divides 100 500

4. Row 1, Col 1 Idea that political power belongs to the people Popular Sovereignty

5. 2,1 A document (which was never passed by Congress) that said there would be no slavery in the Mexican Cession Wilmot Proviso

6. 3,1 Political party formed by antislavery northerners who supported the Wilmot Proviso Free-Soil Party

7. 4,1 Antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin

8. 5,1 This law passed by Congress made it a crime to help runaway slaves no matter where they were in the United States Fugitive Slave Act

9. 1,2 Plan that would divide what was left of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories – Kansas and Nebraska and allow the people there to decide the issue of slavery Kansas-Nebraska Act

10. 2,2 Last event, caused by John Brown, before Kansas collapsed into civil war Pottawatomie Massacre

11. 3,2 Why did House of Representatives member Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner to the point of unconscious in the U.S. Senate? Sumner had criticized pro-slavery people in Kansas and insulted a pro-slavery senator, who was a relative of Brooks

12. 4,2 President who won the election of 1852 because he said that he would support the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act thus the Southerners trusted him concerning slavery Franklin Pierce

13. 5,2 What member of Congress wanted a railroad to run from Chicago, Illinois instead of from New Orleans, Louisiana and was willing to eliminate the Missouri Compromise to get his way Stephen Douglas

14. 1,3 Name the political party that was started in 1854 by people who were against the spread of slavery in the West Republican Party

15. 2,3 This important Supreme Court case involved a slave who said that he should be free because he had lived in free territory before his master died Dred Scott v. Sandford

16. 3,3 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who said that Dred Scott was not a citizen under the U.S. Constitution and did not have the right to sue for his freedom Chief justice Roger B. Taney

17. 4,3 Abraham Lincoln became more well-known as a result of having several debates about slavery with this man. Stephen Douglas

18. 5,3 The idea that the police would enforce the will of the people even if the will of the people went against a ruling of the Supreme Court Freeport Doctrine

19. 1,4 Incident in which antislavery men took over the arsenal (place where weapons are stored) at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in the hope of starting a slave rebellion John Brown’s Raid

20. 2,4 Word that means formally withdrawing from the Union secession

21. 3,4 First southern state to secede from the Union South Carolina

22. 4,4 Name for the southern states that seceded from the Union Confederate States of America (Confederacy)

23. 5,4 President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis

24. 4,4 Name for the compromise that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state Compromise of 1850

25. 4,4 Name of the slave, who was in the north but forcibly returned to the south, which caused more people to become abolitionists Anthony Burns

26. 4,4 Why was Kansas “bleeding” in 1856? Antislavery and pro-slavery people had set up separate governments and were killing each other.

27. 4,4 Man who ran for the U.S. Senate against Stephen Douglas and lost but gained national recognition Abraham Lincoln

28. 4,4 What happened to John Brown after his raid on Harper’s Ferry? He was tried and hung