Slavery
The party of the 1840s that objected to slavery's impact on free white workers.
Free Soil Party
The admission of this state to the union upset the balance of power in Washington.
California
He was president when SC seceded from the Union.
James Buchanan
He debated Abraham Lincoln in 1858 and supported Popular Sovereignty.
Stephen Douglas
The year the Civil War began
1861
The political view that the people could decide whether a territory would be slave or free.
Popular Sovereignty
He proposed the Compromise of 1850 to avoid civil war.
Henry Clay
The election of this president convinced SC to secede from the Union.
Abraham Lincoln
He was the first commander of the Union Army
George B. McClellan
The year the Civil War ended.
1865
The most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
The issue of Popular Sovereignty caused intense violence in this state.
Kansas
He was president during the Mexican War.
James K. Polk
He was responsible for the Potawatomie Massacre.
John Brown
The year of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854
What was John Brown's aim at Harper's Ferry?
To start a slave war.
The American ("Know Nothing") Party focused on this issue.
Immigration
He became president after the assassination of Lincoln.
Andrew Johnson
He was the senator attacked by Preston Brooks in 1856.
Charles Sumner
The year of the Dred Scott decision.
1857
This freed all those slaves wo lived in areas that were in rebellion against the U.S.
The Emancipation Proclamation
When the Civil War began, what was Lincoln's primary goal?
To restore the Union.
He was president of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
He was the Missouri slave that became part of a notorious SCOTUS case in 1857.
Dred Scott
The year of the Harper's Ferry raid.
1859