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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Act passed in 1854 that violated the Compromise of 1820 and allowed western territories to vote for slave or free states.
Bleeding Kansas
Bloody fighting between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in the new territories.
10th Amendment
Amendment that guarantees state’s rights not expressly given to the federal government.
Topeka and Lecompton
Two competing capitols in the new territories.
Harriet Tubman
Name of the woman who let scores of slaves escape the north to the Underground Railroad.
Nullification Crisis
The previous threat of resistance/secession from the union by South Carolina in the 1830s regarding the issue of federal tariffs.
Bible Riots
Name of the conflicts in Philly in the 40s in which Protestants and Catholics clashed.
Immoral
One argument proposed by Northern pastors against slavery in the 1850s.
Harriet Stowe
Name of the white abolitionist who wrote the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
John Brown
White abolitionist who attempted to insight a slave rebellion in 1859.
Harper’s Ferry
Town in which John Brown’s rebellion was attempted.
Biblically justified
One argument proposed by southern pastors in support of slavery in the 1850s.
The abolition of slavery
The south feared this after the election of 1860.
Compromise of 1850 (It’s not Lord Baltimore of 1813)
Set of agreements in 1850 that settled several sectional issues and reinforced the fugitive slave act.
Dred Scott
Slave that attempted to sue for peace when residing in a northern free state.
-Democrats
-Republicans
Two leading parties in America’s third party system.
George Fitzhugh
American intellectual who advocated for slavery and claimed it was a federal turned (?) wage slave labor factories.
Democratic Party
To which party did most southern Whigs migrate to after 1854.
Know-Nothings
Which new secret American party opposed Irish and German catholic immigrants, along with Chinese immigrants in the 1850s.
Free Soil Party
American party that opposed the expansion of slavery in Western territories.
-Abraham Lincoln
-Stephen Douglas
Two prominent candidates in the election of 1860.
Denied Habeas Corpus
Controversial action that Lincoln took against rebel residence of Baltimore in order to preserve the Union.
South Carolina
First state to secede from the Union in 1860.
Confederate States of America
New country that the south started.
State power
What did the Confederate state constitution explicitly protect
Jefferson Davis
First elected president of the Confederate states
Fort Sumter
Location of the first official attack by rebels on a federal base.
-Better generals
-Defensive position
-Knowledge of terrain
Three advantages enjoyed by the south.
-Industry
-Finances
-Bigger population
Three advantages enjoyed by the north.
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