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The president of the United States elected in 1860

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

The member of Congress responsible for the Missouri

Compromise and the Compromise of 1850

Who is Henry Clay?

The Southerner who tried to nullify the federal tariff and

provided the Southern position on slavery in the territories

Who is John C. Calhoun?

The Massachusetts senator opposed to the attempts by South Carolina to nullify the

federal tariff

Who is Daniel Webster?

The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin who presented a negative view of

slavery

Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?

The movement to end slavery in the United States

What is abolitionism?

The movement to provide equal rights to females

What is women’s rights?

The movement to limit or outlaw the use of alcoholic drinks

What is temperance?

The movement to provide free schooling to all children

What is public education?

The need to change things for the better

What is reform?

The Supreme Court case that recognized slavery in the United

States

What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?

The election where Lincoln was elected president which caused the southern states to secede

from the Union

What is the Election of 1860?

The law where California became a free state, New Mexico and

Utah were organized as territories, and a strict federal fugitive slave law was adopted

What is the Compromise of 1850?

The law that organized Kansas and Nebraska as territories and

repealed the line outlawing slavery in the Louisiana Purchase

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

The failed amendment in 1846 to prohibit slavery in any land

acquired from Mexico

What is the Wilmot Proviso?

The practice in the South of forced labor of African Americans

What is slavery?

The belief that states are sovereign and have rights

independent of the national government

What is states’ rights?

A tax or duty on an import to protect a domestic industry of a

country

What is a protective tariff?

The support and loyalty to a certain region of a country

What is sectionalism?

The act of a state leaving the union of states of a country

What is secession?

A leader of the women’s rights movement in the 19th century

Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

The meeting in 1848 that called for equal rights for women

What is the Seneca Falls Convention?

The African American who escaped from slavery and

became a leader of the abolitionist movement

Who is Frederick Douglass?

The document passed in 1848 that stated “all men and women

are created equal”

What is the Declaration of Sentiments?

The leader for free public school education in Massachusetts

Who is Horace Mann?

An agreement reached when two sides with different positions

each give up something

What is a compromise?

The principle that says that all powers of government belong to the people who can change or

abolish their government

What is popular sovereignty?

A tax or duty on the import of a product into a country

What is tariff?

A person who wanted to bring the practice of slavery to an end

Who is an abolitionist?

The status of a law or practice that violates a constitution

What is unconstitutional?