laws
This gave power to Congress to prohibit slavery in territories and admit states with conditions?
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Which president was elected in the United States in 1860, and caused the southerners to become angry?
Abraham Lincoln
People who fought for slavery to be eliminated
Abolitionists
What free state joined the United States as part of the Missouri Compromise?
Maine
term used to described the violent period during the settling of the Kansas territory
Bleeding Kansas
This settled the question if congress could ban slavery in territory received from Mexico
Wilmot Proviso
This whig party member wrote the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
A belief that government is controlled by people
Popular Sovereignty
This part of the countries economy was agricultural
The South
He attacked a United States army post in Harpers Ferry as a rebellion against slavery
John Brown
Determined whether territories in California, Mexico, and Utah, would be slave or free states
Compromise of 1860
Who was the slave who's case to be free was brought to the Supreme Court
Dred Scott
When one group withdraws from a larger group
Secession
The part of the United States that had factories for manufacturing
The North
The idea that states should make final decisions about matters that affect them
States rights
Determined that status of slavery in remainder of Louisiana Territory would be determined popular by popular soverignty
Kansas Nebraska Act
Who was a former slave and abolitionist
Fredrick Douglas
Crops like cotton and tobacco that were sold in the South
Cash Crop
This created an invisible line across the United States; North would be free, South would be slave
The Compromise of 1820
Wrote "The Liberator" in 1831
William Lloyd Garrison
Declared that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional and territories were open to slavery
Dred Scott Decision
Who was the author that Abraham Lincoln told "so you are the little women that started this great war" to
Harriott Beecher
Name given to the states that wanted to seceded from the United States
Confederacy
These two territories were granted the right to decide whether they would be free or slave
Kansas and Nebraska
President of the confederacy
Jefferson Davis