What do you call it?
a plan that would divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories and allow the people in each territory to decide on the question of slavery
Kansas-Nebraska Act
An enslaved man who was the slave of Dr. John Emerson who was an army surgeon who lived in St.Louis, Missouri
Dred Scott
He was a fugitive slave from Virginia, was arrested in Boston
Anthony Burns
the antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
When Brown and his men killed five pro-slavery men in Kansas in what became known as this
Pottawatomie Massacre
of Mississippi, this man was elected president of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
An Illinois lawyer who warned that a future Court ruling, or what he called the next Dred Scott decision which would prohibit states from banning slavery
Abraham Lincoln
A man from Pennslyvania who had a great deal of political expierience as Polk's secratary of state. He had been in Great Britain as ambassador during the Kansas--Nebraska act dispute and had not been involved in the debate
James Buchanan
a person who spoke out powerfully against slavery. the daughter of Connecticut minister Lyman Beecher, moved to Ohio when she was 21
Harriet Beecher Stowe:
California was able to enter the Union as a free state. The rest of the Mexican Cesion was divided into two territories-Utah and New Mexico-where the question of whether to allow slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty
Compromise of 1850
This began when this man and his followers took over the arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion
John Brown's raid
Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas also seceded to form this which is also called the Confederacy
Conederate States of America
favoring the interests of one section over the interests of the entire country
sectionalism
This man was a chief justice was from a slaveholding family in Maryland, and he wrote the majority opinion in the dred scott decision in March 1857. He addressed the issue of dred scotts citizen
Roger B. Taney
He was a little-known politician from New-Hampshire. He promised to honor the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act
Franklin Pierce
a document stating that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territory."
Wilmot Proviso
A challenged by Lincoln resulted in what became this debate.
Lincoln-Douglas debates
a political party united against the spread of slavery in the West
Republican Party
the idea that political power belongs to the people
popular sovereignty
Representitive who was a relitive of Butler's, responded strongly. He used a walking cane to beat Sumner unconsious in the Senate chambers
Preston Brooks
This man had supported the idea of building a railroak to the Pacific Ocean. He favored a line running from Chicago.
Stephen Douglas
Senator of Kentucky who proposed a series of constitutional amendments that he believed would satisfy the South by protection slavery
John C. Crittenden
The notino that the police would enforce the voter's decision if it contradicted the Surpreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case became known as this
Freeport Doctrine
antislavery northerners formed a new party which supported the Wilmot Proviso
Free-Soil Party
To formally withdraw from the Union
secede
John C. Fremont
Charles Summer
This made it a crime ro help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arest those slaves in free areas
Fugitive Slave Act
the current vice president of Kentucky, who supported slavery in the territories
John C. Breckinridge
recognized "no political principles other than the constitution of the country, the Union of the states, and the enforcement of the laws"
Constitutional Union Party