Lesson 1
This topic divided the nation in the 1800's.
slavery
This refers to the events when people were voting illegally for slavery and many pro and antislavery activists lost their lives.
"Bleeding Kansas"
This man tried to seize weapons from an arsenal at Harper's Ferry, VA.
John Brown
This man was chosen to be the president of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
aresenal
The Free Soil party's main platform was
the abolition of slavery
By 1856 it was becoming clear the that ________ were the party of the North and the _____ were the party of the South.
Republicans; Democrats
John Brown's goal at Harper's Ferry was
to secure weapons and arm slaves to start slave revolts in the South.
Fort Sumter is located just outside of this city
Charleston, SC
a person who dies for a cause
martyr
This admitted CA as a free state and outlawed the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
Compromise of 1850
Because James Buchanan supported this idea, he was able to win the 1856 presidential election.
popular sovereignty
Southern states argued the national government had broken a contract. What was the contract?
the Constitution
What side's troops were occupying Fort Sumter in 1860?
Union/North
to officially leave an organization
to secede
This created a strong national Fugitive Slave Law and opened up the possibility of slavery in the new territories.
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott sued for his freedom because he had traveled to and lived in regions where this was banned.
slavery
After Lincoln's election in 1860, many southern states seceded because
they realized they could not win another presidential election and the North's greater population was threat to slavery.
This person said southern states have no right to secede, but he had no right to stop them.
James Buchanan
proslavery supporters who voted in Kansas for slavery.
Enacted in 1854, this repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed popular sovereignty to decide the slavery issue.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Lincoln Douglas debates were about this topic and advanced the career of this person.
slavery; Abraham Lincoln
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
South Carolina
The exact number of men killed in the shelling of Fort Sumter.
zero
Theory that says individual states have the right to control their most important affairs
states' rights theory