The Search for Compromise
preserved the balance between slave and free states in the senate.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
After the Kansas Nebraska Act which party was created becuase of the division of the Whigs and Democrats
The Republican Party
Because of the election of Abraham Lincoln in the election of 1860, the Southern states debated the question on
What is Secession?
What was Dredd Scott claim to the Court about being a free slave
His claim was that because he moved from a slave state to a free state that makes him a free slave
He was the 16th president of the United States and represented the Republican Party
Abraham Lincoln
This proposal would ban slavery in any lands the United States might acquire from Mexico
Wilmot Proviso
In the 1854 Congressional election which party won control of the House of Representatives
The Republican Party
The name that of the new nation created by the state that secede the Union was
The Confederate States of America
What was the decision of the Supreme Court in the case Dredd Scott vs Sanford
That Dredd Scott was still an enslaved person because he wasn't a citizen and had no rights to bring a lawsuit.
Was the leader of the Union Army and the 18th president of the United States of America
Ulysses S Grant
This Compromise suggested that California would be a free state, but other territories would have no limits on slavery
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Who won the Presidential election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln
To justify secession the southerners used
states rights
Why John brown made a raid on Harpers Ferry
because he wanted to arm slaves to make a revolt against slaveowners
Leader of the Confederate Army
Robert E Lee
This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise and letting the voters in each territory vote on whether or not they wanted slavery
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
Who won the presidential election of 1856 and from which party?
James Buchanan from the Democrat Party
The first battle of the civil war was
The battle of Fort Sumter
Wat effect had the John Brown raid on Harper Ferry in the South?
It made their fears of a great Northern conspiracy against them confirmed.
represented the Northern Democrats in the 1860 election and presented the Kansas Nebraska Act bill
Stephen A Douglas
Part of a Compromise explain that anyone who helped a fugitive could be fined or imprisoned.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Lincoln lost in the debates against Stephen Douglas gain him
national reputation
What was the first state to secede from the Union
South Carolina
Because of the Kansas Nebraska Act how newspaper called the attack that happen in Kansas that killed five supporters of slavery
The Bleeding Kansas
The first president of the Confederate states of America
Jefferson Davis