an extremist/radical abolitionist who led the Pottawatomie Massacre and raid at Harper's Ferry
Who is John Brown?
100
a case that repealed the Missouri Compromise and ruled that African Americans are not citizens
What is the Dred Scott vs Sandford Supreme Court Case?
100
James Buchanan, from the democrat party who was neutral on slavery
Who won the election of 1856?
100
residents will vote to decide an issue
What is popular sovereignty?
100
outlaw slavery in any territory gained from the war with Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
200
the Chief Justice who gave the final verdict in the Dred Scott Court Case
Who is Roger B. Taney?
200
a civil war that broke out in the Kansas territory
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
200
Constitutional Union- was for maintaining the union
What was Bell's political party in the 1860 election and what was the platform?
200
To withdraw from the Union
What is to secede?
200
proposal to divide the Nebraska territory into two territories (Kansas and Nebraska) and use popular sovereignty to decided if going to be slave or free state
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
The southern Democrat whose platform was pro-slavery in the 1860 election
Who is John Breckenridge?
300
John Brown attacks pro-slavery cabins and kills 5 people
What is the Pottawatomie Massacre?
300
The northern Democratic candidate that believed in popular sovereignty
Who is Stephen A. Douglass?
300
to bring legal action against a person or institution
What is to sue?
300
a compromise attempting to re-unite the union
What is the Crittenden Plan?
400
a man who created a compromise in 1861 attempting to re-unite the union
Who is John J. Crittenden?
400
John Brown and his followers raid a military arsenal in hopes of starting a slave rebellion
What is the raid at Harper's Ferry?
400
Bell and Douglas were considered this in the 1860 election
What are moderates?
400
a statement of beliefs
What is a platform?
400
stronger laws to recapture runaway slaves
What is the fugitive slave act?
500
the President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
500
The name the southern states who seceded from the Union give themselves.
What are the Confederate States of America?
500
Lincoln wins the election of 1860 leading to this
Why did the South secede from the Union?
500
a new party formed out of the Wilmot Proviso dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery
What is the Free Soil Party?
500
CA would enter as free state, slave trade abolished in DC, no laws regarding territory from War with Mexico, and stronger runaway slave laws