People
First republican president.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Passed to apprehend runaway slaves and return them to their masters.
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
Main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
What is slavery?
State that pro-slavery and antislavery governments existed at the same time.
What is Kansas?
First state to secede from the union.
What is South Carolina?
Made the compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
Result of the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is anger in the north?
Won the presidential election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Reaction of the Supreme Court's ruling on Scott v. Sandford case.
What is South was happy and the Northern abolitionists were outraged?
Who is John Brown?
First president of the Confederate States of America.
Called for banning slavery in any lands the U.S. acquired from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Won the congressional election of 1858.
Who is Stephen A. Douglass?
Reason South was mostly pleased by the Dred Scott decision.
What is restricting slavery was unconstitutional?
Event marked the beginning of the Civil War.
What is attack on Fort Sumter?
Crafted the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who is Stephen A. Douglass?
Refers to the abolitionists/ attack on pro-slavery group that killed five people.
What is bleeding Kansas?
Party formed from the antislavery whigs, democrats, and free-soil party.
What is the Republican Party?
Reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act.
North were angry, South was happy.
Approach used by Stephen A. Douglass as an alternative to the Missouri Compromise.
What is popular sovereignty?
Chief Justice during the Dred Scott case.
Who is Roger B. Taney?
Name three ways that the Northern States rebelled against the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is 1. did not convict people 2. bought enslaved people's freedom 3. helped in the Underground Railroad?
Lincoln was largely unknown before which election.
What is the 1858 congressional election?
Act that is included in the Compromise of 1850.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Concept used to help secessionists support their views.
What is states' rights?