This law 1850 angered Northern abolitionist and everyday people alike.
Fugitive Slave Law
100
This early compromise included the admission of Maine to the Union as well as decreed slavery would not exist below a future line.
Missouri Compromise.
100
By the early 1850s the second two-party system in America was effectively dead, because this party was no longer relevant.
The Whig Party
100
This man was sworn in as president in 1857.
James Buchanan
100
This President was known as the "Rail Splitter"
"Honest Abe Lincoln
200
This Supreme Court decision ruled that slaves were not US citizens and upheld slave owners "property" rights?
Dred Scott v. Sanford
200
Which notion, though never adopted at the end of the Mexican War, would have forbidden slavery in any territory acquired in that war.
The Wilmont Proviso
200
In the lead up to this Civil War this party was deeply split across North-South Lines.
The Democratic Party
200
Which important Supreme Court ruling occurred in 1857?
The Dred Scott decision
200
William Henry Harrison's Vice-President, this President was called "His Accidency" by detractors.
John Tyler.
300
His book, The Impending Crisis of the South, argued the harm that slavery caused... WHITES.
Hinton R. Helper
300
Which compromise determined, among other things, that New Mexico and Utah would have their slavery status determined by popular sovereignty.
The Compromise of 1850.
300
This party rose to prominence in the late 1850s in the North, thanks largely to its platform limiting the spread of slavery, and would win the presidency in 1860.
The Republican Party
300
Psychologically, this may have been the worst economic crisis in America of the 19th century.
The panic of 1857
300
Which future state would be the rallying cry for President James K. Polk
Texas
400
This Massachusetts Senator was staunchly anti-slavery, and made no friends in the South with his "The Crime Against Kansas" speech on the Senate floor.
Charles Sumner
400
Stephen A. Douglas's plan to save the Union, which effectively canceled the Missouri Compromise was known as?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
400
This party set the stage for the Republican Party and was a very influential party in Northern Politics with its staunch anti-slavery position in the wake of the Compromise of 1850.
The Freesoil Party
400
Bowing to pressures in the South, duties were lowered in 1857 by enacting what?
The Tariff of 1857.
400
Dubbed the "Hero of Buena Vista" for his service in the Mexican American War, this man became President thanks to his service.
Zachary Taylor
500
While defending the honor of a fellow Southern Senator, this South Carolina Senator brutally assaulted one of his Northern colleagues.
Preston Brooks
500
In the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, which doctrine of Douglas's argued slavery would stay down if the people in an area did not want it?
The Freeport Doctrine.
500
This party was anti-Catholic and anti-Foreigners, and nominated an ex-president on its ballot.
The Know Nothing Party
500
What helped the South be less hard hit by the financial panic?
Cotton
500
This former President ran on the Free Soil Party's ticket.