| Question | Answer |
| Kansas and Nebraska are organized as territories under popular sovereignty | Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Act of a state to leave a political union of a country | Secession
| President during the Civil War | Abraham Lincoln
| Southern practice of forced labor of African Americans | Slavery
| Attempt by South Carolina to declare federal tariff laws void | Nullification Crisis
| California becomes a state and a stronger federal fugitive slave law is passed | Compromise of 1850
| Supreme Court case which recognized slavery | Dred Scott v. Sanford
| Support and loyalty to a certain region of a country | Sectionalism
| Tax or duty on imports to protect a domestic industry | Protective tariff
| African American leader of the abolitionist movement | Frederick Douglass
| Southern leader who attempted to nullify federal tariff law | John C. Calhoun
| Lincoln elected President and as a result the southern states secede | Election of 1860
| Belief that states were sovereign and had rights | States\\\\\\\' rights
| Attempt to prevent slavery in territories acquired from Mexico | Wilmot Proviso
| Union of states which retain their sovereignty | Confederation
| Responsible for the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay
| Massachusetts senator who opposed nullification | Daniel Webster |
