People
He was elected President in 1860 causing the Southern States to secede
Abraham Lincoln
This war led the U.S. to gain vast amounts of new territory
The Mexican-American War
This was the Political Party that fell from power during this era
The Whigs
This was the main crop of the South
Cotton
This Political Party was formed on the basis of stopping the expansion of slavery
The Republican Party
He was an enslaved person who sued for freedom in what became one of the most famous Supreme Court cases
Dred Scott
This was the failed attempt to create new free territories
Wilmot Proviso
He was the Senator from Massachusetts that was savagely beaten by Preston Brooks in the Senate Chamber.
Charles Sumner
How did the South view John Brown?
As a terrorist
This was the State that Lincoln and Douglas campaigned against each other in for a Senate seat
Illinois
He was attacked on the Senate floor following his speech against the Kansas- Nebraska Act
Charles Sumner
This showed the divide between North and South as well as the breakdown of civil discord at the highest levels of the U.S. Government
The Canning of Charles Sumner
Abraham Lincoln would greet this woman by saying "So you are the little lady who started this war."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
He was the Senator that attacked another Senator because he gave a speech against the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Preston Brooks
Why did Lincoln win the election of 1860?
The Democrats split the vote
He was hanged for treason against the U.S. for fomenting a slave revolt at Harper's Ferry
John Brown
This was the final straw for the South and caused them to secede
The election of 1860
This State became Free as a part of the Compromise of 1850
California
This law in the compromise of 1850 allowed for Southerners to hunt escaped enslaved people in Northern States
The Fugitive Slave Act
What did the seceded Southern States call themselves
The Confederate States of America
She was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This attack was meant to be the spark that ignited a slave revolution in the South
The Harper's Ferry Raid
He was Abraham Lincoln's First Vice President
Hannibal Hamlin
This was the first state to secede from the Union
South Carolina
What was the Freeport Doctrine
Stephen Douglas's argument that if people do not want to have slavery then they can ignore the laws, the Supreme Court cannot force them to own slaves