Politics
This former slave, helped develop the Underground Railroad, often helping the slaves escape herself, including smuggling out her parents.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Senator from Illinois that helped pass the Compromise of 1850, and famously debated Abraham Lincoln.
Who was Stephen A. Douglas?
In February of 1861, delegates from those states that seceded from the union, met and formed this new Southern government.
What is the Confederacy?
The right of residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
He was the Republican Party's first presidential candidate, but didn't win in 1856.
Who was john Fremont?
This slave sued to get his freedom after his owner passed away, because he lived in a free state for many years. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court.
Who was Dred Scott?
Violent abolitionist who was responsible for the Pottawatomie Massacre and the raid on Harpers Ferry?
Who was John Brown?
This abolitionist novel portrayed the worst possible scenarios of Southern slavery to the most extreme degrees.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The network of people who would aid fugitive slaves in their escape.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The terms of this agreement included popular sovereignty in new territories in regards to slavery, and a tougher enforcing of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Nickname given to the nativist American Party, who used secret handshakes and passwords for their meetings, and who ran Millard Fillmore in the election of 1856.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
President who succeeded Zachary Taylor and supported the Compromise of 1850.
Who was Millard Fillmore?
The passage of this act led to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the use of popular sovereignty in these two new territories?
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The formal withdrawal of a state from the union.
What is secession?
This party, which pre-dated the Republicans, opposed the extension of slavery into the new territories.
Who were the Free-Soil Party?
The author of Uncle Toms Cabin, Lincoln called her the "little woman who wrote the book that started this great war."
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
He defeated John C Fremont and Millard Fillmore in the election of 1856, proving the Democratic party could win a national election.
Who was James Buchannan?
This law tried to ban slavery from becoming legal in California, as well as any territory acquired as a result of the war with Mexico, but it was never passed by the Senate.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
The favoring of native-born Americans over immigrants was known as this.
What is nativism?
He was one of founders of the Republican Party.
Who was Horace Greeley?
Nickname given to this mid-western territory, as violence broke out during the voting period to decide whether or not it would become a slave or a free state.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
This Supreme Court Chief Justice handed down the crushing verdict in the Dred Scott case, that slaves did not have the rights of citizens.
Who was Roger B. Taney?
The election of this Republican president in 1860, directly led to the secession of South Carolina from the Union.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Northern legislation that forbid the imprisonment for runaway slaves, and guaranteed that they would have jury trials.
What are personal liberty laws?
He became the first president of the new Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?