VOCABULARY
An exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country.
What is SECTIONALISM?
Abraham Lincoln ran for President in 1860 as a candidate for this political party.
What is the REPUBLICAN PARTY?
This compromise in 1820 outlawed slavery north of the 36 degree latitude line.
What is the MISSOURI COMPROMISE?
This law passed in 1850 required all citizens to return run-away slaves to their owners.
What is the FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT?
This is who Stephan Douglas debated for Illinois Senator in 1858.
Who is ABRAHAM LINCOLN?
Term used to describe war when even civilians are not considered innocent bystanders.
What is TOTAL WAR?
This is the political party that STEPHEN DOUGLAS ran as the candidate for President in 1860.
What is the NORTHERN DEMOCRAT PARTY?
Pennsylvania representative's proposal that was furiously argued by the South that would prohibit slavery in any lands acquired from Mexico.
What is the WILMOT PROVISO?
The Act passed in 1854, sponsored by Stephan Douglas, that called for two territories in the West, one a slave territory and the other a free territory.
What is the KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT?
This was the federal armory that John Brown and his men raided in October 1859.
What is HARPER'S FERRY?
Someone who is running away from the law
What is a FUGITIVE?
December 20, 1860 was an important date because this southern state officially seceded from the UNION on that date.
What is SOUTH CAROLINA?
This political party ran a candidate in the elections of 1848 and 1852 that took a stand on slavery in the territories. It later joined with other parties to form the Republican party.
What is the FREE SOIL PARTY?
In 1856, 800 slavery supporters attacked a town in this state. Shortly afterward, John Brown launched an attack on his own on these border ruffians.
What is KANSAS?
Name the enslaved African-American who sued for his freedom in 1846, and had his case heard in the Supreme Court in 1857
Who was DRED SCOTT?
When states leave the union, the United States
What is to SECEDE?
On February 4, 1861, this Mississippi Senator became the President of the Confederate States of America.
Who was JEFFERSON DAVIS?
This Kentucky Senator presented a multi-layer plan to settle all the issues dividing Congress in 1850.
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Who was CLAY?
Name the freed slave abolitionist who spoke up publicly against the evils of slavery.
Who was Frederick Douglas?
This term means "letting the people decide."
What is POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY?
Name the federal property on an island guarding Charleston harbor that the Confederates attacked on April 12, 1861 starting the American Civil War.
What is FORT SUMTER?
This Illinois Senator was a key figure to resolve the crisis and preserve the Union as he got five individual measures passed into law that became known as the Compromise of 1850.
Who was STEPHEN DOUGLAS?
This abolitionist Senator from Massachusetts criticized pro-slavery Senators and was caned by the South Carolina senator in the halls of Congress.
Who was CHARLES SUMNER?
Which Senatorial, later to be Presidential candidate in 1860 said the following: "I believe that this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free."
Who was ABRAHAM LINCOLN?