Important People
Famous congressman from Kentucky nicknamed the Great Compromiser.
Who was Henry Clay?
Area seeking statehood that was the subject of Henry Clay's first compromise.
What was Missouri?
Famous antislavery book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?
When opposing groups of the same country fight a war.
What is a Civil War?
What was the North?
Man who led an attack on Harpers Ferry to get guns for a slave uprising.
Who was John Brown?
First Southern state to leave the Union.
What was South Carolina?
New nation formed by by the southern states.
What was the Confederation States of America?
Withdrawal of states from the Union.
What was to secede?
Area of the United States that did not like high tariffs.
What was the South?
Man who became president of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Country north of the United States which was the goal of many escaping slaves.
Agreement that ended the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
Nickname for Kansas in the period before the war.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
The Northern states economy was based on this activity.
What was manufacturing?
Illinois senator who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
Site of a famous raid on a federal arsenal.
What was Harper's Ferry?
Act that organized two new territories in the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Ideas that a state could outlaw or refuse to obey a law passed by Congress.
What was nullification?
What was the west?
Supreme Court Chief Justice during the Dred Scott case.
Who was Roger B Taney?
Area flooded by new Northern and Southern voters when it sought statehood.
What was Kansas?
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
A formal argument between two sides to prove a point.
What is to debate?
Sectionalism was obvious when this split before the election of 1860.
What was the democratic party?