Chapter 15 - The Coming Crisis, the 1850s

Stephen Douglast

________ introduced Kansas- Nebraska Act to further construct a transcontinental railway to California in an amazing example of the expansionist pressure generated by a market revolution.

popular sovereignty doctrine

The ________ in Kansas led to continuing civil struggles and political paralysis between two territorial governments.

Confederal States of America

The ________ were created in February and delegates from the seven seceding States met in Montgomery, Alabama.

Democratic Nominating Convention

In the ________ of 1860, the split between the Democratic Party and north- south wings that took place during PresidentBuchanan's tenure became the official party.

New Orleans

There were serious upheavals in ________ and elsewhere, and there was a great deal of violence in the election of 1854 and 1856.

Pierce

In 1853 ________ entered the White House on a wave of good feelings that were quickly stressed by Pierce's support for "Young America "expansionist goals.

American writers

________ struggled since the turn of the century to find distinctive American subjects, which began in the 1850's as the "American Renaissance "in the break of creative activities.

Kansas

In ________, residents of Missouri, a slave state itself, were the first to claim land.

Land claims

________ were made in Missouri, forms were established for the people of Leavenworth, Kickapoo and Atchison and, over and over again, the elections in Canton Kansas were flooded with flagrante votes from Missouri.