Political Parties
This political party rose to national prominence in the 1850s with a focus on stopping the spread of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
He was the Republican Party candidate in the 1860 presidential election.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The outcome of this election was seen by the South as a movement towards the abolition of slavery regardless of Lincoln’s stated opinion.
What is the election of 1860?
She was a former slave who helped many other slaves escape to the North via the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This side in the Civil War had the greatest advantage in industry.
What is the North or the U.S. States?
What political party did most former Southern Whigs join by 1854?
What is the Democratic Party?
He was the Democratic (Northern) Party candidate in the 1860 presidential election.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
The bloody fighting between proslavery and antislavery forces, prior to the outbreak of the Civil War foreshadowing the greater coming war.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
He was a radical white abolitionist who attempted to incite a slave rebellion in 1859 at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
This was the first state to secede from the Union in December of 1860.
What is South Carolina?
This political party wanted to preserve Western territories for white paid labor without slavery.
What is the Free Soil Party?
He was a former US senator from Mississippi who was the only president of Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
A set of agreements that settled several sectional issues including adding California as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
He was the commanding general of all southern Confederate Armies during the Civil War.
Who is Robert. E. Lee?
This side in the Civil War had a much larger share of the best generals including the likes of ‘Stonewall’ Jackson and J.E.B. Stuart.
What is the South or Confederacy?
This was a “secret” party. They opposed Irish and German Catholic immigrants, as well as Chinese immigrants in the 1850s.
What are the Know Nothings?
He was a US senator from Tennessee who was the presidential candidate for the Constitutional Union Party in 1860.
Who is John Bell?
An Act passed in 1854 that violated the Compromise of 1820 and allowed the Western territories to vote for slave or free status.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
She was a member of a famous Northern abolitionist and she wrote the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This military facility in the harbor at Charleston, S.C. was the site of the first Confederate attack of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This was a political party that only existed in the 1860 election supporting a moderate view of slavery based in the status quo of the US Constitution.
What is the Constitutional Union Party?
He was a former vice president and the Southern Democratic candidate in the 1860 election.
Who is John Breckenridge?
This happened when South Carolina threatened secession from the Union over tariffs in the 1830s.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
He was a slave, was taken from a slave state (Missouri) to a free state (Illinois) by his master. He later lost a suit for his freedom in the Supreme Court.
Who was Dred Scott?
President Lincoln’s controversial legal action against possible rebel residents in Maryland. He imprisoned suspects without court trial.
What is the Suspension of Habeas Corpus?