Trouble in Kansas
The act that divided Kansas and Nebraska into separate territories.
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act reinforced the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
What is Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
The 14th President of the United States
What is Franklin Pierce?
The Supreme Court Case that declared Dred Scott a piece of property not a citizen.
What is Dred Scott vs Sandford
The name of the newly formed nation from the southern states that left the union.
What is The Confederate States of America?
The South Carolina Congressman who attacked Charles Sumner.
What is Preston Brooks?
The Compromise that admitted California to the Union as a Free State.
What is Compromise of 1850?
Elected President of the Confederate States of America
What is Jefferson Davis?
The winner of the 1856 Presidential Election.
What is James Buchanan?
The region where Abraham Lincoln won most of his electoral votes during the election of 1860.
What is The North?
The nickname given to the Kansas territory during the violent outbreaks about slavery within the territory.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
The name of the political party that emerged from 1848-1852
What is Free-Soil Party?
Delivered the "Crime Against Kansas" Speech to Congress.
What is Charles Sumner?
The political party that emerged during the election of 1856
What is the Republican Party?
What was the Constitutional Union Parties philosophy?
To rally support for the Union and the Constitution without regard to sectional issues.
The nickname given to the Attack on Lawrence.
What is "Sack on Lawrence"?
The proposal brought to congress by David Wilmont, prohibiting the extension of slavery into the territories.
What is the Wilmont Proviso?
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The series of debates between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln.
What is the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
The date of John Brown's Harper's Ferry Raid.
What is October 16th 1859?
The idea that allowed for the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide if they wanted to be a Free State or a Slave State.
What is popular sovereignty?
The book that was published in 1852 describing the horrors of slavery in the south.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who said "I am the last president of the United States!"
What is James Buchanan?
The Republican Parties reasons for forming?
What is joined forces to oppose the extension of slavery into the Kansas and Nebraska territories by the proposed Kansas-Nebraska Act.
The first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?