People
Became the president of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Abolitionists sent petitions against slavery to Congress. What did the Southern representatives and senators convince other representatives to do?
Ignore the petitions.
Why did Americans want a transcontinental railroad?
Connect eastern states with California
Both sides committed robberies and murder, burning down settlements and pillaging property. This was the result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. What was the account called?
Bleeding Kansas
The power the slave owners held in both government and society
Slave-ocracy
He and his sons seized an arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Va
John Brown
Which side won the election of 1860? Democrats proslavery, Democrats against slavery, Republicans- anti-slavery.
Republican- anti slavery
Where did the Confederate States of America vote in their first/only president?
Montgomery Alabama
What state was the first to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Bands of free-soilers who were armed
Jayhawkers
A slave in Maryland who escaped to freedom. An eloquent speaker; traveled the anti-slavery speaking circuit
Frederick Douglass
Who was president before Abraham Lincoln took office?
James Buchannon
What would the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?
Divide Nebraska territory into two- Kansas and Nebraska. They would be organized without reference at all. They would use popular sovereignty for the slave question.
What state left the Union as a direct result of Lincoln asking for volunteers?
Virginia
Settlers from the Northeast that were antislavery
The nominee for the Democrat party that rejected a pro-slavery plank (platform).
Sen. Stephen Douglas
What were the last two federal forts in the Southern hands?
Fort Pickens and Fort Sumter
Stephen Douglas
Jefferson Davis
Douglas- Begin in St Louis- end in San Francisco
-in Northern part would not attract Southerners
Davis- dream- a southern empire; begin in New Orleans and end in California
Which state did Lincoln use the army to jail pro southern legislators so that the state government could not vote for secession
Maryland
An evil other than a moral evil or sin
material evil
Commander of Fort Sumter after succession; forced to surrender the fort after being bombarded.
Major Robert Anderson
What act repealed the Missouri Compromise?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Give three parts of the Compromise of 1850
California would be a free state
New Mexico and Utah would be slave states
Added fugitive slave law
Slavery would be abolished in DC.
Which states were called "border" states?
Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri
sanction