Followers believed a territory’s voters should decide themselves whether to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
A political party that promised free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men.
(1847-1854)
What is the Free-Soil Party?
100
Outlawed slavery in lands won from Mexico.
Proposed law limiting slavery in the territories.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
100
Republican politician from Illinois who opposed Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
To break away, especially from the union.
What is secede?
200
Opposed strong central government. Divided over the slavery issue in the 1850's.
Formed in 1800.
What is the Democratic Party?
200
Proposed constitutional amendment allowing slavery in all territories south of the Missouri Compromise line.
Proposed as a last resort after seven southern states seceded.
What is the Crittenden Compromise?
200
Mississippi senator who became president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
Term used to describe Kansas, where there was violence between proslavery and antislavery supporters.
What is “Bleeding Kansas”?
300
Divided Nebraska region into two territories, giving voters in each area the right to decide whether or not to allow slavery.
(led to violence)
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
Opposed slavery. Opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Formed in 1854
What is the Republican Party?
300
Site surrendered after a Confederate attack.
What is Fort Sumter?
300
A New York abolitionist who used violence.
Who is John Brown?
300
A secret network of people who helped slaves escape the South
What is the Underground Railroad?
400
Formed in February 1861 by seven states that left the Union.
What is the Confederate States of America?
400
Opposed immigration
Joined by anti-slavery Whigs
Took a pro-slavery platform in 1856
(1843-1856)
What is the Know-Nothings or the American Party?
400
Location of federal arsenal that John Brown tried to seize and start a revolution that would destroy slavery.
What is Harper’s Ferry?
400
A Missouri slave who sued for his freedom.
Who is Dred Scott?
400
Laws passed in the north that nullified the fugitive slave act.
What is personal liberty laws?
500
Stringent laws that required citizens to apprehend fugitive slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
500
Favored national economic development
Opposed Andrew Jackson
Anti-slavery members left in the 1850's
(1834-1852)
What is the Whig Party?
500
Wrote a best-selling novel that condemned slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
500
Chief justice of Supreme Court that ruled against Scott.
Who is Roger B. Taney?
500
Legislation designed to avoid division between North and South over slavery.
(included a new strict fugitive slave law)