Vocabulary
This term refers to the preference toward people born in the U.S.
What is nativism?
This is the name given to the ongoing violent conflict in Kansas and Nebraska?
What is Bleeding Kansas
This region supported Lincoln in the election of 1860.
What is the North?
This series of acts overturned the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This formerly enslaved man sued for his freedom because he had lived in a free state.
Who is Dred Scott?
This term refers to completely getting rid of slavery.
What is abolition?
These two candidates for the Illinois Senate debated slavery in the new territories.
Who are Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas?
This party was formed by anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats.
What is the Republican Party?
This law was enacted as part of Compromise 1850 to ensure the escaped slaves would be returned to slavery
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This editor for the NY Times frequently wrote editorials against slavery and helped found the Republican Party.
Who is Horace Greeley?
This term refers to letting the the residents of a state to choose (especially about slavery)
What is popular sovereignty?
This was a failed attempt by an extreme abolitionist to start an armed slave rebellion in Virginia
What is Harper's Ferry?
This party was known for favoring of native-born citizens over immigrants, or ‘nativism.’
What is the "Know-Nothing" Party?
This line was the official border for slavery in new territories, according to the Missouri Compromise.
What is the 36'30?
These two Democrats split the Southern vote in the election of 1860.
Who are John Breckenridge and Stephen Douglas?
This term refers to the formal withdrawal of a state from the union.
What is secession/seceeding?
This group from Missouri came over the border into Kansas and voted for slavery.
Who are Border Ruffians?
This democratic candidate won the presidency in 1852, but didn't actually do that much while in office.
Who is Franklin Pierce?
As a provision of the Compromise of 1850, the sale of slaves was banned here, but slavery was still allowed to continue.
Where is Washington D.C.?
This man became the 14th president after becoming a hero during the Mexican-American War.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
This term refers to anti-slavery advocates that entered Kansas to argue against slavery in the state.
What are Free-Soilers?
This refers to the proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War in 1846?
What is the Wilmont Proviso?
This party opposed extension of slavery into the new territories, and nominated Martin Van Buren in the election of 1848.
What is the Free Soil Party?
This act overturned the Compromise of 1850 by allowing residents of new states to vote on this issue of slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This president famously did nothing to stop secession after the election of 1860.
Who is James Buchanan?