Important People
This man ordered his troops to attack unarmed Union troops at Fort Sumter.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This was a law saying that anyone who helped a fugitive slave could be fined or put in jail.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This man was chosen as president of the Confederate States of America after the southern states seceded from the Union.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This is a person who is willing to die for their cause.
What is a martyr?
In this compromise, California would enter the Union as a free state, but new territories would be open to slavery, the slave trade would be outlawed in Washington, DC, and there would be a strong fugitive slave law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This man beat Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois Senate race of 1858.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
This was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that told how terrible slavery truly was.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This political party was split in two during the election of 1860, having a candidate from the north and a candidate from the south.
What is the democratic party?
This is a person who is running away from legal authority.
What is a fugitive?
The Dred Scott v. Sanford supreme court case ruled that slaves are considered _______.
What is property?
He was a slave who sued for his freedom because he had lived in a free territory.
Who is Dred Scott?
This was the biggest issue dividing the nation in the mid-1800s.
These three political parties had candidates run in the election of 1860.
What are the Democrats, the Republicans, and the Constitutional Union?
This is when conflict arises between citizens of the same country.
What is civil war?
This was the first southern state to officially leave the Union.
This man won the presidential election of 1856.
Who is James Buchanan?
This was the name given to the fighting that took place in Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery voters.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
This man won the election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This is the idea that the states should have the right to make their own decisions, not be told what to do by the federal government.
What are States' Rights?
This is the name of the US fort where the Civil War actually began.
What is Fort Sumter?
Some people think this man is a crazed murderer. Some think he is a martyr who died for his cause.
Who is John Brown?
This law allowed voters in the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska to vote on whether or not to allow slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
These were the 4 candidates who ran in the election of 1860.
Who are Abraham Lincoln, John Bell, John Breckinridge, and Stephen Douglas?
This word means to withdraw or break away from a nation.
What is to secede?
This is the name of the new country that the southern states created when they left the Union.
What is the Confederate States of America?