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He was the first elected Republican president in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This event occurred after the Kansas-Nebraska Act as pro-slave and anti-slave forces rushed to the state.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, sparked moral outrage against slavery in the North & was quickly banned in the South.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This party was formed in 1854 in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is the Republican Party?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War in 1848.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
He authored the Missouri Compromise & the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
This event caused South Carolina to secede from the Union.
What is the election of 1860?
This was the most controversial aspect of the Compromise of 1850
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
This principle allows for slavery to be determined by a vote of the people who settled the territory.
What is popular sovereignty?
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing for slavery to spread where it had previously been banned.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
He authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act & debated Abraham Lincoln for a senator seat.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
This event concluded in 1848 and saw a massive increase in U.S. territory.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This controversial bill, although never passed, proposed to ban slavery in the Mexican Cession territories.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This party opposed the expansion of slavery for economic, not moral, reasons.
What is the Free Soil Party/Movement?
This declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional, stating that the gov't cannot ban slavery in the territories.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
This president annexed Texas & gained the Mexican Cession.
Who is James K. Polk?
This 1859 event saw an attempt of violent abolitionism in Virginia.
What is John Brown's Raid?
This event occurred in the Senate chamber and saw one senator brutally beaten.
What is The Caning of Charles Sumner?
This is the belief that native-born Americans are superior to immigrants.
What is nativism?
This amendment overturned the Dred Scott Decision.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This man became president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This marks the first place that shots were fired in the American Civil War (April 12, 1861)
What is Ft. Sumter, SC?
This was a plot created by southern diplomats to annex Cuba for more slave territory
What is the Ostend Manifesto?
This illegitimate document, supported by Pres. Buchanan, declared Kansas to be a slave state.
What is the Lecompton Constitution?
This was the only real advantage that the South had over the North during the Civil War
What is strong military leadership?