Vocab
to find reason to support
Justify
Republican Party Candidate 1860
Abraham Lincoln
What set up a balance of free states and slave states?
Missouri Compromise
Dec. 20, 1860 _____________ became the first state to secede
South Carolina
The Fugitive Slave Act did what?
People found guilty of helping escaped slaves could be fined or enprisoned
The North saw John Brown as a what?
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Led a raid on Harper's Ferry arsenal in Virginia
John Brown
What act led to the beginning of the conflict in Kansas?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Southerners defined the Constitution as a ______ among the independent states.
contract
Withdrawal
Secession
Northern Democrat Party Candidate 1860
Stephen Douglas
Where was Fort Sumter located?
Charleston, South Carolina
The new nation formed by the southern states that seceded from the Union
Confederate States of America
Who was President before Abraham Lincoln?
James Buchanan
Republican Candidate of 1856
John C. Fremont
Southern Democrat Party Candidate 1860
John Breckinrdidge
What marked beginning of Civil War?
Attack on Fort Sumter
Abraham Lincoln would not allow what?
Secession
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case
Roger B. Taney
individual states are independent and have the right to control their most important affairs
State's Rights
Constitution Union Party Candidate 1860
John Bell
Southerners believed that Lincoln’s election meant:
the South no longer had a voice in the National gov’t
How did Abraham Lincoln gain a national reputation?
Lincoln lost the 1858 Senator election of Illinois to Stephen Douglas, but was seen as a man of clear thinking who could argue with force and persuasion.
Republicans had promised what?
Not to stop slavery where it already existed