"Bleeding Kansas"
Passage of this bill which allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decided for themselves if they would be free or slave territories caused Kansas to explode into violence.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The President during whose administration the Mexican War was fought, he is known as one of the most effective single term Presidents in U.S. history.
Who is James K. Polk?
He challenged Stephen Douglas to a series of seven debates during the campaign for Douglas's senate seat in 1858.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Believing he had been ordered by God to end slavery, He led a raid into Harpers Ferry Virginia in 1859, seeking to arm slaves and begin a full scale uprising that would destroy slavery.
Who is John Brown?
The political party that emerged in the 1850s that combined the stances of the Free Soil Movement and the old Whig party.
What is the Republican Party?
A famous violent abolitionist who sought revenge for the raid of Lawrence, Kansas by killing five proslavery men in response.
Who is John Brown
The river that both Texas, and then later the United States argued was its border with Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande river?
The position that local populations should choose for themselves the laws that regulated controversial or important issues, it was adopted as the primary argument by Stephen Douglas during the 1850s.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
He was a former slave who utilized his intelligence and education to become the most famous civil rights leader of the 19th century.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Nicknamed "Handsome Frank," He was elected President and quickly made himself unpopular by signing the Kansas-Nebraska Act and refusing to send federal troops to stop the ensuing chaos in the territory.
Who is Franklin Pierce?
The proslavery constitution for Kansas that was the first submitted, but was rejected by both Republicans and Northern Democrats.
What was the Lecompton Constitution?
Later a Whig President, he was ordered by the President to take his soldiers to the disputed Mexican-American border in order to incite a reaction from the Mexican government.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
The state that Stephen Douglas represented as Senator in the late 1850s.
What is Illinois?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The pro-slavery splinter group of Democrats who during the 1860 Presidential election ran John Breckinridge as their Presidential candidate.
Who were the Southern Democrats?
Who is Charles Sumner?
Who is Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
Who were the Northern Democrats?
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Often considered the worst President in U.S. history, he was elected in 1856 when the Democrats were the only major national party, and refused to take any action as seven Southern states attempted to secede in 1861.
Who is James Buchanan?
The antislavery Constitution for Kansas, which was received second, and was rejected by both Southern and Northern Democrats.
What was the Leavenworth Constitution?
Not popular with either anti-slavery or pro-slavery leaders, it was the treaty that ended the Mexican War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
A Senator from Michigan, he invented the political position that Stephen Douglas would champion throughout the 1850s.
Who is Lewis Cass?
Famous for giving a speech titled "Ain't I a Woman," She was both an abolitionist and member of the women's movement in the 19th century.
Who was Sojourner Truth?
The nickname given to antislavery Democrats who briefly left the party in the election of 1848 in order to support the Free Soil Candidate, former President Martin Van Buren.
Who are the Barnburners?