The Search for Compromise
Neither Congress nor any territorial government could ban slavery from a territory or regulate it.
Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina
Claimed he should be free since he had lived in areas where slavery was illegal.
Dred Scott
What kinds of constitutional amendments did Senator John Crittenden of Kentucky suggest?
Protection for slavery
Abraham Lincoln was born in
Kentucky in 1809
Led the Confederate forces in the Battle of Fort Sumter.
General P.G.T. Beauregard
Anyone who helped a fugitive could be fined or imprisoned.
Fugitive Slave Act
Wrote the Court's opinion, he was not a citizen and had no right to bring a lawsuit. A slave was property. The Fifth Amendment prohibited the taking of property without "due process."
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia had joined South Carolina in?
February 1861
Lincoln’s famous speech
Gettysburg Address
Led the Union forces in the Battle of Fort Sumter.
Major Robert Anderson
Free African Americans and whites formed a network, or interconnected system, called the.
Underground Railroad
Abolitionist who led a group on a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His target was a federal arsenal, a storage site for weapons.
John Brown
The first battle of the American Civil War signaled the start of the war.
THE BATTLE OF FORT SUMTER
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves
1863
Beauregard was Anderson’s student at this military academy.
West Point, New York
Crossed the border from Missouri just to vote.
Border ruffians
Debated seven times.
Lincoln and Douglas
Name of the 1st President of the Confederate States.
Jefferson Davis
Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth, and died the next day
1865
Harbor is protected by Fort Sumter.
Charleston, South Carolina
John Brown led an attack that killed five supporters of slavery.The newspaper call that event the?
"Bleeding Kansas"
A person who dies for a cause?
Martyr
Who said the words "The Union of these States is perpetual [forever]."
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address
The Civil War broke out in the United States
1861
Anderson and his troops were almost out of these at Fort Sumter
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