People I
Republican president
Abraham Lincoln
This party was anti-slavery, pro-business
Republican
Earliest controversy in the steady slide toward war
Wilmot Proviso
Zachary Taylor's vice president
Millard Fillmore
Powerful novel that aroused public opinion against slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Support for slave revolt (nickname)
Secret Six
Ensured that the transcontinental railroad would benefit Illinois
Kansas-Nebraska act
Former slave who the Supreme Court denied was a citizen with rights
Dred Scott
Which provision of the Compromise of 1850 called for the return of runaway slaves to bondage?
Southern Democrat candidate in the crucial election of 1860
John C. Breckinridge
Acceptance of slavery in the South, rejection of slavery in the territories
Free-Soiler
Reaction to the threat of the Wilmot Proviso
Calhoun Resolutions
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas
The South resisted the admission of California as a state because Southerners...
Feared the loss of power in the Senate
Democrat who won the election of 1856
James Buchanan
This group was anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic
Know-Knothing
Agreement that was necessary before California could be admitted as a free state
the Compromise of 1850
Constitutional Union candidate in the election of 1860
John Bell
Which event was most responsible for the Lower South seceding?
the election of Lincoln
Fanatical abolitionist
John Brown
leaving the Union
Secession
The Calhoun Resolutions said that slavery...
could not be banned until a territory became a state
Supreme Court Chief Justice who denied that blacks had citizenship rights
Roger Taney
Which event was responsible for the Upper South seceding?
Lincoln's call for troops