Studied by 1 personfugitive
a person who runs away
martyr
a person who dies for a cause
states rights
southern states used this idea to separate from the union
secede
formal withdrawl
civil war
a war between citizens of the same country or armed conflict
arsenal
a storage site used to hold weapons
republican party
anti-slavery whigs + democrats + free soilers
36 30 north latitude
the line that marked the division between free and slave states
wilmot proviso
banning slavery from any states acquired from mexico
popular sovereignty
Stephen Douglas proposed this an an alternative to the Missouri comprimize
border ruffians
pro-slavery people who crossed the Kansas border to vote
Kansas
pro-slavery and anti-slavery governments coexisted
fugitive slave act
enforcement angered people of the north
Missouri comprimise
created to balance slave and free states
14th amendment
born in the USA you are a citezen
slavery (and the democratic party)
division in the democratic party (north and south)
fort Sumter
the attack that started the civil war
John Brown
Violent abolitionist - Led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
James Buchanan
Democrat who won the election of 1856
Roger B Taney
Wrote the Dred Scott decision
Lincoln-Douglas
Debates main topic was slavery
Jeffreson Davis
The first president of the Confederate States of America
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