The political concept of "popular sovereignty" popular in the late 1840s and 1850s says what about who would decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory, or a new state? 2. which event cause the secession of the first seven southern states in 1860-61? 3. which political party was the most popular political party in south carolina? 4. which law forced northerners, by the penalty of jail, to catch runaway slaves? 5. what year did the civil war start? 6. what do historians tend to call the period of intense fighting in the midwest in the 1850s after the passage of the kansas-nebraska act? 7. the fugitive slave law was passed as part of what other major legislation? 8. which political party was most popular in the south? 9. what did the supreme court declare in the dred scott decision? 10. how did the fugitive slave law of 1850 affect all african americans? 11. which region of the country was not in favor of the kansas-nebraska act and why? 12. what were the advantages of the north and south in terms of actual warfare? 13. what was lincoln's dilemma when deciding on the crisis at fort sumter? 14. what was the anaconda plan? 15. what happened at the battle of shiloh? 16. what was europe's response to the south refusing to trade cotton with them? 17. what was the emancipation proclamation? 18. how did the north and south respond to the emancipation proclamation? 19. what is habeas corpus and what did abraham lincoln do about it? 20. what happened at bull run? 21. what was the significance of the battle at antietam? 22. what was the primary difference in lincoln's and douglas' debates? 23. what 4 states seceded following fort sumter?