Blank Jeopardy

1
A law passed in 1854 in which two proposed states
were allowed to decide on the slavery issue by
citizens of those states.
2
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
3
The 1820 agreement by Congress that Missouri
would enter the Union as a slave state and Maine
as a free state. Slavery would not be allowed in
any states formed north of a line even with
Missouris southern border.
4
What is the Missouri Compromise?
5
A proposal introduced in the House of
Representatives that barred slavery from any
territory gained from Mexico.
6
What is the Wilmont Proviso?
7
A proposal introduced by Henry Clay in which
California was admitted as a free state, slave
trade was banned in DC and the fugitive slave law
was strengthened.
8
What is the Compromise of 1850?
9
The right of a people living in a territory to
decide upon an issue, such as whether or not to
allow slavery.
10
What is popular sovereignty?
11
I was elected president of the Confederate States
of America.
12
Who was Jefferson Davis?
13
I was a slave who was the center of a Supreme
Court decision concerning slavery.
14
Who was Dred Scott?
15
I led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers
Ferry in an attempt to start a slave rebellion.
16
Who was John Brown?
17
I wrote The Impending Crisis of the South How To
Meet It.
18
Who was Hinton Rowan Helper?
19
I was the North Carolina native who promised to
acquire Texas and California if elected president.
20
Who was James K. Polk?
21
Dred Scott should have been freed.
22
What is the North?
23
States rights are a basic freedom.
24
What is the South?
25
The tax on cotton is far too high.
26
What is the South?
27
The Union has become a curse, not a blessing.
28
What is the South?
29
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
30
What is the North?
31
I was the editor of the abolitionist newspaper
The Liberator.
32
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
33
During the late 1850s, this was the only
organization holding the country together.
34
What is the Democratic party?
35
People who wished to do away with slavery
entirely.
36
Who are abolitionists?
37
This political party formed to oppose slavery.
38
What was the Republican Party?
39
I was an antislavery preacher who was forced to
leave North Carolina because of my views.
40
Who was Daniel Worth?
41
To add something to a larger area.
42
What is annex?
43
A loose organization that helped slaves escape
from the South.
44
What is the underground railroad?
45
A person who will not compromise his or her views.
46
What is an extremist?
47
A statement about the principles and policies a
political party supports.
48
What is a platform?
49
To withdraw from the Union.
50
What is secede?