People
Led a revolt with 70 slaves and killed 55 people.
Nat Turner
Fighting between pro-slavery and anti-slavery believers broke out in this state
Kansas
Missouri entered as a slave state; Maine entered as a free state; everything above the 36'30 would be free; everything below the 36'30 would be slave
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Zachary Taylor's time as president didn't last very long because why?
he died soon after taking the oath of office - of pneumonia.
People left the parties of Whigs, Free Soils, and Northern Democrats to create this party
Republican
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This state wanted to nullify the Tariff of Abominations
South Carolina
What is the name of the compromise and which section of the country received the following: California entered as a free state; buying and selling of slaves in DC illegal
Compromise of 1850; North
In this election, Franklin Pierce won.
this political party opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories
Republican
As retaliation for negative remarks from Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, this person hit him with a cane and caused brain damage. Name and state he represented.
Preston Brooks from South Carolina
Border ruffians from this state cross the border into this state in order to vote for slavery
Missouri / Kansas
this made it easier for people to track down and capture runaway slaves and return them to their Southern owners
Fugitive Slave Law
This candidate ran/won the election of 1856, and his platform was that of popular sovereignty.
James Buchanan
this political party believed in the expansion of slavery into the territories
Southern Democrats
Asked Congress to accept the Lecompton Constitution and declare Kansas a slave state
President James Buchanan
First state to secede from the Union
South Carolina
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This Senator from Illinois ran against Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election and got smoked!
Stephen Douglas
document created by the pro-slavery group in Kansas
Lecompton Constitution
Led a raid of a federal arsenal in order to steal weapons to give to slaves so they could revolt against their owners
John Brown
Fired upon by the Confederates thus beginning the Civil War
Fort Sumter
this compromise made owning slaves in DC still legal; there would be no slave restriction in Utah or New Mexico
Compromise of 1850
Won the election of 1860, and his platform included no expansion of slavery
Abraham Lincoln
after traveling around in and out of free states with his owners, he sued them for his freedom; he lost in the Supreme Court
Dred Scott