people
Won the election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Thousands of skaves escaped via this trail
The Underground Railroad
California gold rush miner
Forty niner
Political party that is probusiness and antislavery
Republican
Illinois politician that debated with Abe Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
John Brown and his followers attacked a federal arsenal here
Harper’s Ferry
Radical southerners
Fire Eater
Powerful novel that aroused public opinion against slavery
Uncle Toms Cabin
Southern rep who caned a northern senator
Preston Brooks
gold was discovered here but didn’t make the owner rich
Sutters Mill Ranch
Accepted slavery in the south but rejected it in the territories
Free Soiler
The earliest controversy in the slide towards the Civil War
Wilmot Proviso
Fanatical abolitionist
John Brown
This act was largely responsible for “Bleeding Kansas”
Kansas Nebraska Act
Group that was anti immigrant and anti catholic
Know Nothings
Group that supported the slave revolt
Secret Six
Former slave who the Supreme Court denies citizenship and rights
Dred Scott
This says that residents of a territory should decide the status of skavery
Popular sovereignty
This said that skavery could not be banned until a territory became a state
Calhoun Resolutions
What factor was likely most responsible for Lincoln winning the election of 1860
Slip within the Democratic Party