Potpourri
Abraham Lincoln challenged his Illinois senate seat with 7 debates.
Stephen Douglas
Required the capture and return of escaped slaves.
Fugitive Slave Act
People who wanted to end slavery.
Abolitionists
Term for a person who wanted to end slavery.
Abolitionist
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
A novel about the brutality of slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Authored by Henry Clay to settle the slavery issue in former Mexican territory.
Compromise of 1850
Town founded by anti-slavery settlers in Kansas.
Lawerence
A formal withdrawal of a state from the union.
Secession
Ran as a Republican in 1860 and would win the presidency. Also said to Harriet Beecher Stowe: "So is the little lady who made the big war."
Abe Lincoln
Two parties that declined after the 1856 Election.
Know Nothing party and the Whig party.
Way that Kansas and Nebraska decided to be slave or free states.
Popular Sovereignty
Former slave who made 19 trips as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
The right of a territory to vote for or against slavery.
Popular Sovereignty
Who ran for president in 1856 as a Democrat and won with 45% of the popular vote.
James Buchanon
Duoglas' quotes that, "slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.
Freeport Doctrine
A series of tunnels and false cupboards used to help slaves escape.
Underground Railroad
People who crossed the Kansas border from Missouri to vote for pro-slavery candidates.
Border Ruffians
The Supreme Court ruled against this slave.
Dred Scott
Massachusetts senator who spoke against events in Kansas and was beaten by a cane.
Charles Sumner
This law caused thousand of settlers to pour into Kansas.
The Kansas Nebraska Act
The abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The favouring of native born Americans.
Nativism
Responsible for the Pottawatomie Massacre in which 5 men were pulled from their beds and stabbed to death. He was also tried for treason for taking over a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry WV and was hung 6 weeks later.
John Brown