People
Who was elected president of the United States in 1860 which caused many in the south to be angry?
Abraham Lincoln
In 1854, Congress passed a law that allowed settlers in these territories to decide for themselves what to do about slavery, a concept known as popular sovereignty. What territories were these?
Kansas and Nebraska
The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all tried to settle what problem?
Slavery in the west
This said California would be admitted as a state
Comp. 1850
Book created by Harriet Beecher Stowe telling the evils of slavery.
Uncle Toms cabin
Who was vehemently against slavery and tried to start a rebellion at Harper's Ferry?
John Brown
Reporters coined the phrase __________________ due to all the violence there.
Bleeding Kansas
Who "rode" on the Underground Railroad?
Runaway slaves.
This law allowed the people to decide on slavery in the west.
Kansas - Nebraska Act
What was the king crop in the south
cotton
He created the Kansas - Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas
Which part of the country felt that state governments should have more power than the federal government?
South
The Fugitive Slave Law required people to do what (even if they disagreed with slavery)?
Return runaway slaves to their owners.
Law that said the people of the north had to catch runaway slaves.
Fugitive slave law
The Fugitive Slave Law legalized _______________ in the entire country.
Kidnapping
He said "Blacks could never have rights a white man could ever respect.
Roger Taney
This northern state was admitted into the union because of Missouri.
Maine.
The Dred Scott decision was a blow to the abolitionist movement. Why?
The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were property.
Blacks were not citizens.
Case that said Congress does not have the authority to decide the issue of slavery in the west.
Dred Scott case
political party created in 1854 that was against slavery.
Republican Party
This pro slavery whig won the election of 1848
Zachary Taylor
John Brown was tried, convicted and executed in the town.
Harpers Ferry VA
This law, passed in 1820, established Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also created an invisible line across the US; north of the line would be free, south would be slave.
The Missouri Compromise or the Compromise of 1820.
Created an imaginary line dividing our country in two.
Missouri Compromise.
This is the idea that people have the power.
Popular Sovereignty