Name that Person
Abolitionist responsible for leading slaves to freedom from the South.
Harriet Tubman
The party that Abraham Lincoln was elected from.
Republican
Excessive devotion to local interests and customs to a region rather than the whole nation.
sectionalism
When was gold first discovered in California?
1848
Sued for his freedom and lost in the Supreme Court.
Dred Scott
The author who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin", causing many whites to question slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Party that opposed Abraham Lincoln and ran 2 candidates in the Election of 1860.
Democratic
Forced all American to catch escaped slaves.
Fugitive Slave Act
The network of homes and people who helped slaves escape to the North?
Underground Railroad
Won the presidential election of 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
Abolitionist who planned a slave revolt and the attack on Harper's Ferry.
John Brown
This party campaigned on nativism (restricting the rights of immigrants).
American Party (Know-Nothings)
Proposal to admit California as a free state and allow New Mexico and Utah popular sovereignty.
Compromise of 1850
*Double Points*
What year was gold found in California and what were the miners called?
1848 and "the 49ers"
Won the election of 1858, and introduced the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854.
Stephen Douglas
Weak president who did nothing while seven states seceded.
James Buchanan
Party that opposed expansion in the western territories.
Free-Soil Party
Term states that states have the right to reject congressional decisions on slavery.
Popular Sovereignty
Senator who proposed the Compromise of 1850.
Henry Clay
Event that led to the start of the Civil War.
Attack on Fort Sumter
Senator from Mississippi who was elected president of the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis
In order to keep states rights and keep slavery, southern states formed this new nation.
Confederate States of America
What was the name of the proposal that led to the downfall of Stephen Douglas.
the Freeport Doctrine
The senator who declared the South would not give up its liberty to save the union.
John C. Calhoun
Supreme Court justice who decided that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
Roger Taney