Road To Civil War Cards

Santa Anna

The dictator of Mexico during the Texas revolution

Henry Clay

The great compromiser

John Brown

The abolitionist who was seen as a martyr by the north and a terrorist by the south.

Stephen Douglass

The man who beat Lincoln for Illinois senate but lost the presidential election

James K. Polk

US president who started the mexican American war

Daniel Webster

the abolitionist from Boston who wants to preserve the union

James Buchanan

worst US president and left at the start of the civil war

Zachary Taylor

The main general in the mexican american war

John C. Calhoun

wanted no compromise for slavery and was from south carolina

Dredd Scott

African American who sued for his freedom when his owner took him into a free state.

Millard Fillmore

The person who signed the compromise of 1850

Abraham Lincoln

The president who freed slaves

manifest destiny

the term used to describe the feeling americans would get when they want to move west in the 1800s

tejanos

the native mexicans who helped americans in the texas revolution

annexation

to officially take

mexican cession

the event when texas and western america was taken from mexico

popular sovereignty

the term that refers to when each state would vote on if slavery would be banned in their state

fugitive slave act

the act that made it so slaves who escaped to free states must be turned back to the south and their masters

dredd scott decision

the decision after the dredd scott case which was a cause of the civil war

confederate states of america/confederacy

the southern states which seceded from the US before the civil war