Ch10 Crossword Flashcards
The Supreme Court ruled congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in what
Territory
“So you’re the little lady who started this war” the prez said to this author
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The civil war began with the attack where?
Fort Sumter
The Kansas-Nebraska act repealed the what line?
The 36-30 line
Leading democrat who does in 1850
Calhoun
Lincoln won by what percent of the popular vote
40%
Purchase made in 1853 to provide a southern route for the transcontinental railroad
Gadeson
Prez of the confederate states of America
Jefferson Davis
Admission of California as a free state would tip the balance of power in what?
The US senate
In 1858 Lincoln said “a house _____ against itself cannot stand”
Divided
Southern democrats refused to back Douglas after his “Freeport _______”
Heresy
A _______ railroad was needed to tie California to US economy
Transcontinental
Word meaning “no higher authority”, popular _______
Sovereignty
He lost the 1858 election for US senate
Lincoln
Senator from Illinois
Douglas
Abolitionist senator from Massachusetts who was Caned
Sumner
Uncle Tom’s cabin was written in opposition to …..
The federal fugitive slave act of 1850
Political party against the expansion of slavery in 1860
Republicans
Those who rushed to California
Forty niners
Men who illegally crossed the border to vote in Kansas elections
Border ruffians
Town in Kansas where free stators set up government
Lawrence
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote what book
Uncle Tom’s cabin
Where John Brown tried to lead a slave revolt in 1859
Harpers Ferry
Sumner was caned following what speech
“Crimes against Kansas”
The turning over of land by Mexico in 1848
Mexican cession
According to the Supreme Court African-Americans were not
Citizens
Northern States passed these laws following 1850
Personal liberty laws
In 1855 elections in Kansas proslavery men from what state voted illegally
Missouri
Hero of Mexican-American war and president when he dies in 1850
Zacn Taylor
Discovered in California in 1848
Gold
The war began in his front yard and ended in his front parlor
Wilmer McLean
By 1858 slavery appeared to be a
Expanding institution
In 1787 slavery was considered a
Dying institution
How many Americans fought in the Civil War
3 million
South Carolina was the first state to
Secede from the union in 1860
Also known as the great compromiser
Henry Clay
