Terms
What is a belief that laws should be passed favoring native born people
Nativism
Winner of the 1860 Election
Lincoln
What issue divided the Whig Party?
Slavery
First state to leave the Union
South Carolina
What party nominated Lincoln as its presidential candidate?
Republican
What is the term for formal withdrawal from the union?
Secession
Harriet Tubman
What was officially formed on February 4, 1861?
Confederacy
The two candidates who engaged in a series of famous Senate debates in 1858.
Lincoln and Douglas
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Confederate president
What is it called when people were allowed to vote on the issue of slavery in a territory?
popular sovereignty
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
What political party's main goal was to stop the expansion of slavery in the territories?
Free Soil
What court case seemed to imply that no government could prevent people from taking slaves into their state?
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Winner of the 1856 Election
James Buchanan
What was another name for the American Party?
Know Nothing Party
What is one of the things John Brown did?
Led raid on Harper's Ferry
Pottawattomie Massacre
What law admitted California into the Union as a free state and put in place a stricter fugitive slave act?
Compromise of 1850
What anti slavery town in Kansas was burned to the ground by pro slavery extremists?
Lawrence
Winner of the 1852 Election
Franklin Pierce
President James Buchanan endorsed the pro slavery constitution in Kansas. What was it called?
Lecompton Constitution
Who was the candidate of the Southern Democrats in the 1860 Election?
John Breckinridge
The Kansas Nebraska Act repealed what earlier law?
Missouri Compromise
What state had two governments in the 1850's--one pro slavery and one anti slavery?
Kansas
Name one of the two members of Congress involved in the famous caning incident?
Preston Brooks/Charles Sumner