The new way of determining if a state will be free or slave-holding after the Mexican-American war.
What Is popular sovereignty?
The act that stated northerners must return runaway slaves to the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The winner of the Election of 1860.
Who Is Abraham Lincoln?
The South's advantages.
What are superior generals and fighting defensively?
The paper money determined by the nation's credit that was issued by the Washington Treasury to help the economy.
What are greenbacks?
The agreement that determined if California would be a slave state or not.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The man who played a large role in Bleeding Kansas and Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
The political parties of the two main candidates for the election
What is Democratic (Douglas) and Republican/National Union (Lincoln)?
The North's advantages.
The legal petition that Lincoln suspended so anti-unionists might be arrested, which defied the ruling by chief justice that only congress could set aside.
What is the Writ of Habeas Corpus?
The act that eliminated the Missouri Compromise, which heavily upset northerners and increased state tensions.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Supreme Court case that stated that slaves were property and not citizens.
What is Dred Scott V. Sandford?
The first state that argued that it had the right to succeed after the Election of 1860's outcome.
What is South Carolina?
The border states.
What is Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware?
The riots in 1803 by underprivileged and anti-Black Irish Americans that resulted in many lives lost and the lynching of Black people. Caused by hatred for the war drafts.
What are the New York Draft Riots?
The party considered the first truly sectional party.
What is the Republican Party?
The title and author of the book that made slavery "real" to northerners.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Stowe?
The 7 meetings in 1858 between two political rivals that discussed topics such as slavery.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
The Confederate States of America.
What is South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Mississippi, Virginia?
The event that angered the British after union warships removed 2 confederate diplomats bound for Europe.
What is the Trent Affair?
The land that the US Gained in the Mexican-American war.
What is California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming?
The anti-slavery organization that sent 2,000 people to Kansas to forestall the south and make a profit.
What is the New England Emigrant Aid Company?
The compromise intended to appease the south by prohibiting slavery north of 36° 36' and giving land south of that line federal protection and the right to choose if the state wanted to be free or slave-holding. It was rejected by Lincoln.
What are the Crittenden Amendments?
The Union states.
What is Oregon, California, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey.
The first step to unified banking that established standard bank-note currency.
What is the National Banking Act of 1863?