Compromise of 1850
This proposed solution by Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan, set to resolve the issue of whether slavery should be allowed in the new territories.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This bestseller novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe became famous for depicting the cruelty and depravity of slavery in the South.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This party started to split over the issue of slavery. With those against slavery being called "conscience" and those supporting slavery being called "cotton".
What is the Whigs?
The Election of 1860 was unique because it had this many candidates and parties run for president.
What is a Four Way Race?
This state is the first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
This U.S state was added into the Union as a free state under the compromise of 1850.
What is California?
This informal but well organized system of routes helped move escaped slaves from the South to the Northern states or Canada with the help of its members known as "conductors".
What is the Underground Railroad?
This party's main values were Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Catholicism (Nativism), and focused on refusing them entry into the United States.
What is the Know-Nothing Party or The American Party?
This political party ran on no other policy issue other than preserving the Union during the Election of 1860.
What is the Constitutional Union Party?
Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina all seceded after this attack on this federal fort.
What is Fort Sumter?
This war granted the United States the nearly 500,000 square miles of new territory and re-introduced the issue of free and slave states in those new territories.
What is the Mexican-American war?
This man had escaped slavery in Richmond, Virginia by boarding a boat to Boston and who's arrest under the Fugitive Slave Act sparked outrage amongst Boston's anti-slavery residents.
Who is Anthony Burns?
This political party was formed after the split of the Whig party and is made up of Conscious Whigs and Anti-slavery Northern Democrats.
What is the Free Soil Party?
This candidate ran for president under the newly formed Southern Democrats after the party split over the issue of slavery in the territories.
Who is John C. Breckenridge?
This central government body was formed from the Southern states that seceded from the Union and commanded the southern army during the Civil War.
What is the Confederate States of America or CSA?
Under the Compromise of 1850, the slave trade was banned in this U.S capital.
What is the District of Columbia?
This act aimed to organize the Nebraska and Kansas territories and effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing for the expansion of slavery above the 36°30′ parallel by using Popular Sovereignty to decide whether slavery should exist.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
This longstanding party, the party of Andrew Jackson, was popular with Southern slave states and was for the expansion of slavery.
What is the Democratic Party?
This presidential candidate ran under the Northern Democrats in the Election of 1860.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
These slave states stayed loyal to the Union and did not follow the other states in seceding from the Union.
What are Boarder States?
This law enacted under the Compromise of 1850 required citizens in free states to assist in the capture of runaway or accused runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
This infamous Supreme Court Case ruled that: Black Americans cannot be citizens of the United States and sue in federal court, and that federal government cannot decide whether slavery should exist in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This political party began to rise in the mid 1850s and who's main political goal was to stop the expansion of slavery in the territories.
What is the Republican Party?
This Republican presidential candidate ran on issues of preventing the expansion of slavery in the territories, and is the first Republican president.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This battle in Northern Virginia is the first major battle of the Civil War.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run or the Battle of First Manassas?