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1850 Fugitive Slave Act

required Northerners to help capture runaway slaves or face fines or jail; angered Northerners against the South & slavery more.

How was Franklin Pierce able to defeat Winfield Scott in the 1852 presidential election

Pierce supported the compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive slave act

Kansas-Nebraska Act

a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery

Outcome of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

there were opposing governments in Kansas trying to get the state government to support them. Bleeding Kansas happened

Which political party formed in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Republican party

Dred Scott

A black slave, had lived with his master for 5 years in Illinois and Wisconsin Territory. he sued for freedom on the basis of his long residence on free soil.

Dred Scott Decision

Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not viewed as citizens but as property

John Brown

raid at Harpers Ferry

Why did leaders in South Carolina believe that their state had the right to secede from the Union?

They believed that since each state joined the Union voluntarily, each state could leave the Union voluntarily.

popular sovereignty

A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.

Lincoln-Douglas debates

1858 Senate campaign in Illinois; series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas over the issue of slavery

Franklin Pierce

14th President

Republican Party

Political party that believed in the non-expansion of slavery & consisted of Whigs, N. Democrats, & Free-Soilers in defiance to the Slave Powers

Why was Kansas known as "Bleeding Kansas"

The fighting between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

described harshness of slavery, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe