Causes of Conflict
This secret network helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This law allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This enslaved man sued for his freedom after living in free territory.
Who is Dred Scott?
This political party formed in the 1850s to oppose slavery expansion.
What is the Republican Party?
An attack on this fort marked the start of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This idea let people in a territory vote on whether to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
These pro-slavery settlers crossed into Kansas to vote illegally.
Who are the border ruffians?
This court ruled that African Americans were not U.S. citizens.
What is the Supreme Court?
This candidate won the election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Fort Sumter was off the coast of this state.
Adding new states caused conflict because it affected the balance of power in the ______ .
What is the Senate?
Violence in Kansas over slavery earned it this nickname.
What is “Bleeding Kansas”?
This Supreme Court decision said that this legislative body could not ban slavery in territories.
What is Congress?
This candidate supported popular sovereignty in 1860.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
After the attack, Lincoln made this request to the states.
What is a call for troops?
Before the Republican party was born, this political party opposed the spread of slavery into new territories.
What is the Free-Soil Party?
Popular sovereignty led to both ______ and anti-slavery governments in Kansas.
What is pro-slavery?
The location of an attack on a federal arsenal in Virginia.
What is Harpers Ferry?
John C. Breckinridge represented Southern Democrats and supported _______.
What is slavery?
Southern states left the Union in a process called this.
What is secession? (secede)
This proposal tried to ban slavery in land gained from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
In May 1856 slavery supporters attacked the antislavery capital city of _______ .
Lawrence.
This abolitionist led the raid at Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
These debates between Lincoln and Douglas focused mainly on this issue.
What is slavery?
This Confederate president ordered the attack on Fort Sumter.
Who is Jefferson Davis?