People
After a series of debates with Stephen Douglas, he lost the Senate election, but would later defeat Douglas to become our 16th president.
Abraham Lincoln
A war between citizens of the same country
Civil War
South Carolina would secede from the union shortly after this event.
Election of 1860
Cash crop that increased the need for slaves in the South
Cotton
This book brought attention to the horrors of slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Former slave who became a conductor and helped hundreds of slaves escape via the underground railroad.
Harriet Tubman
A person who wants to stop slavery
Abolitonist
This forced northerners to return runaway slaves or face the possibility of arrest.
Fugitive Slave Act
The ______________ states had an economy based on industry
Northern
This was the first state to secede from the union.
South Carolina
An abolitionist and author, she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book which brought attention to the horrors of slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe
To withdraw from a union or organization
Secede
This set the 36/30 parallel as the dividing line between slave and free states.....although it would later be declared unconstitutional
Missouri Compromise
He took his case all the way to the Supreme Court and lost trying to gain his freedom
Dred Scott
The North attracted more immigrants than the South because it offered more _________.
Jobs
After developing the Missouri Compromise and the compromise of 1850, he earned the nickname "The Great Compromiser"
Henry Clay
Loyalty to one's region rather than the country as a whole
Sectionalism
This divided new land into 2 territories and declared that slavery in these regions would be decided by popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
State admitted as a free state as part of the Compromise of 1850
California
He took 2nd in total electoral votes in the Election of 1860
John Breckinridge
A senator from Tennessee, he would later run for president in 1860 as a member of the Constitutional Union Party
John Bell
The idea that people should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union and a free state or a slave state
Popular Sovereignty
John Brown organized a small group to raid this town and arm themselves with weapons that would be used to fight against slave owners
Harpers Ferry
He wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas
These were pro-slavery men from Missouri who illegally crossed into Kansas to vote and support slavery
Border Ruffians