History of the Americas Questions

Which group or groups disapproved of the Dred Scott decision?

If the Union would be preserved, Lincoln would be willing to enforce the....

John Crittenden's proposal of a guarantee of slavery south of the Missouri Compromise border was...

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court deemed enslaved personsto be

Jefferson Davis believed that government only existed with...

Abe Lincoln asked ____________ to be commander of the Union army and he accepted

The president of the Confederate States of America was

The dispute between proslavery and antislavery residents of Kansasresulted in

Something that comes before or is introductory

The North passed _________________ due to the passage of the Compromise of 1850

Which of the Fugitive Slave Acts forced northerners to participate inrecapturing runaway slaves?

The South felt ___________________ was the only way to preserve their way of life

Democrats had _______________ running for president of the United States in 1860.

Maine could enter the union as a free state under the

One of the problems with the Missouri Compromise was that it only addressed the

What is credited with bringing the horrors of war to the civilians?

Antislavery party that was founded in 1848 to keep slavery out of western territories.

_____________________ verbally attacked a southern senator for his views on slavery and was beaten with a cane by the southern senator's nephew.

To suggest something for people to consider

______________ were first used during the Civil War