Vocabulary
A hub; a central location
Terminus
Railroad promoter that negotiated the purchase of land from Mexico, to build a Southern railroad.
James Gadsden (Gadsden Purchase)
Where were the Border Ruffians from?
Missouri
The main purpose of the Supreme Court is to?
Interpret the Constitution
The FIRST republican to ever run for the presidency (1856)
John Fremont
To remove or cancel;
People that illegally voted in Kansas to set up a pro slavery government.
Border Ruffians
In order to build a transcontinental railroad this act was passed that would organize territories into settlements.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
When the Supreme Court makes a decision, it is ____________ and cannot be changed
Final
This former president ran as a "Know Nothing" in 1856.
Milliard FIllmore
Let the people decide if a territory should have slavery
Popular Sovereignty
Senator that proposed the a transcontinental railroad and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Stephen Douglas
The site of a territorial Civil War between pro and anti slavery settlers.
Bleeding Kansas
In 1857, The Supreme Court ruled this Act to be unconstitutional and allowed slavery to spread everywhere.
Missouri Compromise
This issue caused the democratic party to split into Northern and Southern Democrats.
SLAVERY
When a law or an act violates the constitutional.
Unconstitutional
He challenged Stephen Douglas to a series of debates during the Senate race in 1858.
Abraham Lincoln
James Buchanan, the only bachelor president, is also the ONLY US president elected from this state?
Pennsylvania
In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme court determined that African Americans could never be ________________ of the United States and therefore had no constitutional rights?
Citizens
Northern Democrats supported popular sovereignty and nominated ____________?
Stephen Douglas
A president that wins the election with less than 50% of the popular vote.
Minority President
People who were against slavery and wanted it permanently outlawed.
Abolitionists
The Southern transcontinental railroad was to start in _______________; while the Eastern hub would be ________________
New Orleans and Chicago
The Chief Justice that wrote the opinion for the Dred Scott Decision
Roger Taney
Southern Democrats supported the Dred Scott Decision and nominated ?
V. P. John Breckinridge