Who was the president of the confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
Abolitionist and author of uncle toms cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Caused thousands of settlers to pour into Kansas
Violence that existence throughout Kansas (term)
Bleeding Kansas
The favoring of native born Americans
Nativism
The supreme Court ruled against which slave?
Dred Scott
Elected president in1860.
Abraham Lincoln
The right of territory to vote for or against slavery
Popular sovereignty
A novel about the brutality of slavery
Uncle tom’s cabin
A form of withdraw of state from union
Secession
Former slave who made 19 trips as a conductor on the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Term for someone who wanted to end slavery.
Abolitionists
No territory acquired from Mexico could ever be a slave state
Wilmot proviso
John brown was tried for treason after capturing federal arsenal in this WV town.
Harpers ferry
Town founded by anti slavery settlers in Kansas
Lawrence
Abraham Lincoln challenged his Illinois senate seat with 7 debates.
Stephen Douglas
People who crosses Kansas border from Missouri to vote pro slavery
Border ruffians
Required the return and capture of slaves.
Fugitive slave act
No nothings and Whig
he ran for president in 1856 as a democrat
James Buchanan
Who said to Stowe, “so this is the little lady that made the big war.”
Abraham Lincoln
Pro slavery settlement was attacked and 5 men were killed
pottawotomie massacre
People who wanted to end slavery
Abolitionists
Authored by Henry clay to settle the slavery issue in former Mexico territory.
Compromise of 1850
Massachusetts senator who spoke against events in Kansas / was beaten by a cane
Charles sumner