People 1
This man was the Republican candidate for president in the Election of 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
This man wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Stephen Douglas
This man led a failed raid on Harpers Ferry.
John Brown
When did the Compromise of 1850 happen?
1850
This was a network of people and safe houses that helped enslaved people escape from the South to free states in the North or to Canada.
Underground Railroad
This man was the president of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
This man suggested the Wilmot Proviso.
David Wilmot
This man was the most well known Black abolitionist in the 1850's and 1860's.
Frederick Douglas
How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act say that the issue of slavery would be decided in those two territories?
Popular Sovereignty
This is the place that John Brown first used violence against pro-slavery men.
Pottawattamie Creek.
This party nominated John Bell to try to keep the Union together in the election of 1860.
The Constitutional Union party.
These TWO men debated each other seven times as they battled for a Senatorial seat in Illinois.
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.
This woman was an escaped slave that served as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman.
What was the main impact of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
Lincoln became well known across America.
This part of the Compromise of 1850 enraged people in the North because it forced them to help return people who escaped slavery in the South.
The Fugitive Slave Act
This man was beaten with a cane by his opponents on the floor of the Senate when he spoke out against the pro-slavery government in Kansas.
Charles Sumner
This man beat another Senator with his cane on the floor of the Senate.
Preston Brooks.
This man became the president after Zachary Taylor died in office and signed the Compromise of 1850 into law.
Millard Fillmore
In the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Supreme Court have to say about the Missouri Compromise?
It was unconstitutional.
What was the platform of the Republican party?
Stop the spread of slavery in the West.
This man was president during the conflict over the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Franklin Pierce
This man was told by the Supreme Court that he was property- not a person.
Dred Scott
This man was the president when the Supreme Court made the Dred Scott Decision.
James Buchanan.
What military leader led the response to John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry?
Robert E. Lee
Which southern state was the first to secede from the Union?
South Carolina