This allowed California to be admitted to the Union as a free state and allowed voters in the Utah and New Mexico territories to decide about salvery

Compromise of 1850

Northerners who objected to slavery's impact

on free white workers were called

Free Soilers

According to ________, the residents of a territory had the right to vote for or against slavery

Popular sovereignty

What law did nine Northern states pass that 

forbidded the imprisonment of runaway slaves

Personal Liberty Laws

Abraham Lincoln was the first president

of which party

The Republican party

Who was one of the most active conductors on the 

Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman

Who supported the Wilmot Proviso

Northerners

Slavery

immigration

What nick name did the American Party 

become known as

Know-nothing party

The Republican Party was united

in their opinion about what issue

opposition to slavery

What was Henry Clay's primary purpose in 

offering the Compromise of 1850?

To avoid a civil war over the issue of slavery

The formal withdrawal of a state from

the Union is known as

Secession

Name one of the founders

of the Republican Party

Horace Greely

The topic of the Lincoln-Douglas

debate was

slavery in the territories

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Confederacy included all of the following states except

Maryland

Texas

Alabama

South Carolina

Maryland

What was the result of passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Popular sovereignty for Kansas and Nebraska

antislavery and violent

Which view best summarizes Lincoln's

position on slavery in 1858

Slavery should not spread because it is morally

and politically wrong

What was one effect of John Brown's 

actions at Harpers Ferry

Increase tensions between the North and South

South Carolina

West Virginia

Which map symbol shows the northern

border of the Confederate States of America

double narrow line

Which was the last state to join the Confederacy?

Tennessee