Vocab #1
When Missouri entered the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Missouri Compromise.
When border ruffians led raids and battles, leading to death and bloodshed in the Kansas territory and the state of Missouri.
Bleeding Kansas
Was elected in 1860, 16th president, opposed slavery
Abraham Lincoln
The election when Abraham Lincoln was elected.
Election of 1860
What State was Lincoln From
Illinois
Election where Abraham Lincoln was elected
Election of 1860
Act that used popular sovereignty to decide on the slave issue in Kansas and Nebraska territories.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Conductor on the underground railroad. Helped to save hundreds of slaves by taking them to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
People who crossed the Kansas/Missouri border to fight, illegally vote, or intimidate others
Bleeding Kansas
Act that required northerners to return runaway slaves back to the south.
Fugitive Slave Act
Set of 5 laws passed to help control the slave and free state balance, including the fugitive slave act.
Compromise of 1850
Party created in 1854 to oppose the democrats and stop slavery
Republican Party
Man who pushed for popular sovereignty, created the K-N Act, and was a political opponent of Lincoln.
Stephen Douglas
When South Carolina was the first state to leave the Union after the election of 1860
Secession
Party that wanted to expand slavery and not give up their way of life.
Democratic Party
The idea that the people of the territory could vote to decide the slave issue.
Popular Sovereignty
People who crossed the Kansas/Missouri border to fight, illegally vote, or intimidate others
Border Ruffians
Former slave preacher who led a violent slave uprising killing several people. He was eventually caught and killed.
Nat Turner
Raid led by John Brown in Virginia. It ultimately failed and John Brown was executed because of this.
Raid at Harper's Ferry
Driving factor behind southern dependence on slavery
Agriculture
Slave who sued for his freedom. He lost in one of the worst Supreme Court Decision in US history.
Dred Scott
Violent abolitionist who believed the slave issue would be ended with blood. He was executed after his failed raid at Harper's Ferry.
John Brown
Women who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beacher Stowe
When southern forces bombarded a Union fort in South Carolina that officially started the Civil War.
Attack at Fort Sumter
Book that was written and became a best seller, show the brutality of slavery to northerners.
Uncle Tom's Cabin