Slavery, States’ Rights and Westward Expansion
This said that slavery would not expand into territory taken from Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Who is everyone?
The last Whig president of the United States.
Who was Millard Fillmore?
What is South Carolina?
This war between the North and South included the Battle of Gettysburg
What is the American Civil War?
The political party formed at the end of the Mexican-American War that opposed the expansion of slavery into western territories.
What is the Free Soil Party?
A network of safe houses and guides helping enslaved people escape
What was the Underground railroad?
The political party that feared Immigrants
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
The Candidate that the Northern Democrats nominated for president in 1860
Who is Stephen Douglas?
What is three days?
The three political parties that competed in the presidential election of 1848.
What is Democrats, Whigs, and Free Soil Party
What Kansas was called due to the Numerous violent clashes that happened between pro-slavery ans antislavery settlers
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
The major issue that helped lead to the creation of the Republican Party in the 1850s
What was opposition to the expansion of slavery?
The main goal of the Confederate States of America (CSA)
What is to preserve and expand slavery?
This speech was delivered months after the battle honored the soldiers who died there
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This senator introduced a series of resolutions attempting to settle disputes over slavery expansion that later became the basis for the Compromise of 1850.
Who was Henry Clay?
The law introduced by Stephen Douglas in 1854 that allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether slavery would be allowed?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Supreme Court case that ruled ensalved people were property and not citizens
What is the Dred Scott case?
The event that officially began the Civil War in April 1861
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?
This Confederate general led the Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg
Who is Robert E Lee?
This Illinois senator took over and helped as the Compromise of 1850 after Henry Clay stepped down.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
The violent event in the US Senate that symbolized the growing sectional divide over slavery
What was Preston Brooks beating Charles Sumner with a cane?
The goal of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859
What is to start a slave uprising in the South?
The Compromise proposed to attempt to prevent Southern states from seceding
What is the Crittenden Compromise?
At Gettysburg, many statues of generals show them on horseback. According to legend, if the horse has one hoof raised, it means this happened to the rider during the war.
What is the ride was wounded in battle?