Compromises
Line that divided north and south that outlawed slavry above the line
What was the 36-30 line
MS, FL, AL, GA, LA, TX, VA, AR, TN & NC
What were the states that seceded after the election
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
Little Giant
Who was Stephan A. Douglas
Extreme abolitionists
Who was John Brown
New Mexico and Utah Territories would decide by voting
What was the compromise of 1850- South
Abraham Lincoln
Winner of the election of 1860
loyalty to your own region, or part, of the nation rather than the whole nation itself
What is Sectionalism
Believed slavery was immoral
Who is Abraham Lincoln
5000 proslavery Missourians came and voted illegally
What was bleeding Kansas
Maine became a free state
Missouri became a slave state
What was the Missouri Compromise
Slavery
Expansion of slavery in the new territory
States Rights
Threat of secession
What were the issues of the Election of 1860
Preston Brooks (S.C. Congressmen) attacked Sumner
What was the Brooks- Sumner Affair
Ran for senate
Who were Abraham Lincoln and Stephan A. Douglas
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
What repealed the 36-30 line
California would be admitted as a free state.
Slave trade would be abolished in Washington D.C.
What was the Compromise of 1860- North
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, John Bell, John C. Breckanridge
Who were the candidates in the election of 1860
April 12, 1861
What day did the war begin
Supported the south
Who was Stephan A. Douglas
Allowed new territories the decision of becoming a free territory or a slave territory.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
The Great Comproimse
Who was Henry Clay
Republicans
Northern Democrat
Southern Democrat
Constitutional Union
what were the political parties of the candidates in the election of 1860
it was argued that states had the right to nullify, or reject, a federal law
What was the Doctrine of Nullification
Republican
Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas
Who created Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854