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Secession
The earliest controversy in the steady slide toward civil war?
The Wilmot Proviso
The Calhoun Resolutions said that slavery?
Could not be banned until a territory became a state
Illinois senator who was one of the major proponents of popular sovereignty?
Stephen Douglas
Term for a California gold rush miner?
Forty-niner
This political party is known for being antislavery, and probusiness
Republican
President of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
Which of the following was a reaction to the threat of the Wilmot-Proviso?
Calhoun Resolutions
What factor was probably most responsible for Lincoln's election to the presidency?
A split within the Democratic Party
True or False: A standard Republican position was to support popular sovereignty
False
This political party had acceptance of slavery in the South, and rejection of slavery in the territories
Free-Soiler
Some politicians argued that residents of a territory should decide the status of slavery in their territory using this political tool?
Popular sovereignty
Which of the following was not passed by Congress?
Wilmot Proviso
Democrat who won the election of 1856?
James Buchanan
Political party known for being anti-immigrant, and anti-Catholic
Know-Nothing
According to Daniel Webster, why was the debate over slavery in the new territories needless?
The climate of the new territories could not support slavery
The South resisted the admission of California as a state because Southerners?
Feared the loss of power in the Senate
One reason the Kansas - Nebraska Act was introduced was to?
Ensure that the transcontinental railroad would benefit Illinois.
Southern Democrat candidate in the crucial election of 1860?
John C. Breckenridge
Zachary Taylor's vice president?
Millard Fillmore
Group that was in support for slave revolt?
Secret Six
Name for a radical Southerner?
Fire-Eater
What agreement was necessary before California could be admitted as a free state?
The Compromise of 1850
Supreme Court chief justice who denied that black had citizenship rights?
Roger Taney
The five provisions of this are that California would be admitted as a free state. Slave trade abolished in DC. Fugitive Slave Act enforced. Slavery protected in DC. Utah and New Mexico would vote on slavery by popular sovereignty.