Section 1
The North favored this document, which would make slavery illegal in new territories.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
She was the most active ‘conductor’ of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This party was known for favoring of native-born citizens over immigrants, or ‘nativism.’
Who is the Know-Nothing Party?
The South would favor this part of the Compromise of 1850 rather than the Kansas- Nebraska Act.
What is the fugitive Slave Act
Slave rebellions had this effect on the South...
What is stricter laws and punishments/
This is the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.
What is secession?
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this book, championed by abolitionists for its message about slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Not an example of division/violence over slavery....Bleeding Kansas, The Know-Nothing party or the Sumner/Brooks Incident
Who is the Know Nothing Party?
This Supreme Court rules that slaves are property and have no rights of citizens.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
This person was charged for treason because of the failed slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, Va. in 1859...
Who is John Brown?
The time before the Civil War in the South
Antebellum
This made it illegal to help runaway slaves, denied slaves due process and gave judges financial incentive to return slaves to the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Founded in 1854, this party opposed extension of slavery into new territories, made up of Whigs, Free Soilers, Know Nothings and Northern Democrats and nominated John C. Frémont in the election of 1856.
Who is the Republican Party?
The main reason the South seceded..
What are issues over slavery?
Delegates met in this city to form the Confederate States and elected Jefferson Davis President ...
What is Montgomery, AL?
Who was elected President of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
Being misinformed on the loss of life in a pro slavery raid on Lawrence, Kansas, this fiery abolitionist led an assault on Pottawatomie Creek, savagely killing 6 pro slavery men.
Who is John Brown?
Common methods that were used by abolitionists...
What is speeches, protests, slave rebellions, petitioning Congress and moving blacks to Liberia?
These debates led to a disappointing loss for Lincoln in the 1858 U.S. Senate election
What are the Lincoln/Douglas debates of 1858?
Loose association of Southern States
What is a confederation?
This term means that residents of a territory or state can vote to decide the issue of slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
Issue was most important for political parties in the 1850's whether they were for it, against it or divided by it/
What is slavery?
The South seceded because...
What is Lincoln was elected president?
The Freeport Doctrine and Stephen Douglas supported popular sovereignty but this compromise did not....
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Came up with the idea of popular sovereignty
Who is Stephen Douglas?