slavery in territories
People have the right to create their own government
What is popular sovereignty
remove from the United States
What is secede
proslavery bands from Missouri who battled anti slavery forces in Kansas
Who are Border Ruffians
The party of Lincoln
Republican
Won the election of 1860
Who is Abraham Lincoln
called for a law to outlaw slavery in territories gained from Mexico
What is Wilmot Proviso
required citizens to help catch run away slaves
What is Fugitive Slave Act
This divided Nebraska territory into tow territories and gave each the right to decide about slavery
Kansas-Nebraska Act
He debated Lincoln when they ran for Senate.
Stephen Douglas
First state to secede from the Union
What is South Carolina
allowed one state to be admitted as slave and admitted Maine as free
What is Missouri Compromise
war between people of the same country
What is civil war
attack which saw the deaths of pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters
What is Bleeding Kansas
gun warehouse
What is an arsenal
President of the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis
political group formed to keep slavery out of western territories
What is Free Soil Party
Describe three of the parts of the Compromise of 1850
What is California to enter as free state, territories from Mexico had popular sovereignty, ended slave trade in D.C, Fugitive Slave Act, settled border dispute between Texas and New Mexico
He sued for his freedom and lost
Dred Scott
He raided Harper's Ferry and led a slave revolt
Who is John Brown
Scene of first shot of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter
proposed the Missouri Compromise
Who is Henry Clay
Book that showed the evils of slavery to northerners
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
What did the Dred Scott decision say about Dred Scott
As a slave he had no right to sue in the Supreme Court because he was not a citizen
actions against one's country
treason
Name at least two people who ran against Lincoln in 1860.
Who are John Breckinridge, Stephen Douglas, John Crittenden