Section 1
The right of people to create their government
What is popular sovereignty?
To remove
What is secede?
An act that helped split the Nebraska territory into 2 parts to keep things equal in the Senate.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
A new political party who wanted to end the expansion of slavery and some wanted it gone in the south also.
Who were Republicans?
One that could not be changed.
What is unamendable?
A political party whose main goal was to keep slavery out of the western territories.
What is the Free-Soil Party?
A runaway.
What is a fugitive.
Proslavery bands who rode across the border that wanted to keep antislavery force out.
What are border ruffians?
A gun warehouse.
What is an arsenal?
The winner of the election of 1860.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The winner or the 1848 election who was a member of the Whig party.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
A war of people within the same country.
What is a civil war?
The use of hit and run tactics.
What is guerrilla warfare?
Actions against one's country.
What is treason?
The first state to secede on December 20, 1860.
What is South Carolina?
A plan that helped keep the number of slave states and free states the same for the Senate.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
A law that said that citizens must help catch runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
A legal case brought to settle a dispute between people or groups.
What is a lawsuit?
Willing to give up ones life for their beliefs.
What is a martyr?
The first president of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
The land that the Missouri Compromise applied to.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A popular book in the north that written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the truths about slavery.
What is Uncle Toms Slavery?
A senator who helped set up the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who was Stephan Douglass?
Lost the senate race of 1858 but would come back to win the presidency and would work to end slavery in the United States.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The place where the civil war initially started.
What is Fort Sumter?