The South
Political Party which won the most states in the South in the presidential election of 1860.
What is the Southern Democratic?
Winner of the election of 1860 and 16th President of the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This senator from Illinois proposed the Act.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
This is another name for a runaway enslaved person.
What is fugitive?
This name was used as the official country formed by the southern states that seceded from the United States.
What is Confederate States of America?
Wrote the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The Act allowed for people in a territory to vote directly on the issue of slavery rather than have their elected representatives decide, or this two-word term.
What is popular sovereignty?
The southern states did this, or withdraw from the United States.
What is secede?
This political party won three Southern states in the presidential election of 1860 because this party did not want to leave the Union.
What is the Constitutional Union Party?
He was the abolitionist who led a raid on an arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Who was John Brown?
One reason Northerners were angry with the Act.
What is slavery had not been allowed in the territories because of the Missouri Compromise and now the ban was lifted?
The process where the United States added Texas to the Union.
What was annex?
He was the first president of the confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This president of Texas that later became the governor of Texas.
Who is Sam Houston?
One reason Southerners supported the Act.
What is these territories might allow slavery and enter the Union as slave states?
Southerners claimed Uncle Tom's Cabin was this because of how slavery was portrayed.
What is propaganda?
Capital city of the confederacy.
What is Richmond?
He was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford.
Who was Roger B. Taney?
This conflict was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act when proslavery and antislavery settlers rushed to Kansas to vote.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?