People
The person who was elected President in 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This political party was anti-slavery and supported Abraham Lincoln.
Republican Party
How the North made their money
Industry, factories, railroads
How the South made their money.
Agriculture, slave labor
A prominent conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
Divided the country in half along the 36-30 line. Slavery was illegal north of this line, and legal south of it
Missouri Compromise
This said that slaves could not petition for their freedom and said the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
Dred Scott decision
What abolitionists used to transport fugitive slaves out of the South
Underground Railroad
Became the President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Killed 5 people in Kansas, tried to lead a slave uprising in Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
John Brown
Made California a free state, created a new fugitive slave law, gave popular sovereignty to Utah and New Mexico, gave Texas $10 million
Compromise of 1850
Was hit over the head with a cane in Congress over the topic of slavery.
Charles Sumner
Debate between two Illinois politicians to become senator.
Lincoln-Douglas debate
First state to secede.
South Carolina
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This proposed that slavery would be illegal in the new territories.
Wilmot Proviso
Said that the states had the right to decide if they were a free state or slave state.
Popular Sovereignty
Created the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
State that rejected secession
West Virginia
Dealt with the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas
Laws in the North that helped fugitive slaves.
Personal Liberty Laws
Also known as the American Party. Did not support the rights of immigrants.
Know-Nothing Party
Lincoln's argument in the Lincoln-Douglas debate
The government needs to outlaw slavery
Vice President from South Carolina who supported slavery and the Compromise of 1850.
John C. Calhoun