history chapter 13

secession

leaving the union

secret six

slave revolt

popular sovereignty

belief that each territory can decide on the status of slavery within its border

free-soiler

acceptance of slavery in the South, rejection of slavery in the territories

republican

antislavery, probusiness

forty-niner

california gold rush

know-nothing

anti - immigrant, anti - Catholic

fire-eater

radical southerner

John C Breckinridge

Southern Democrat candidate in the crucial election of 1860

Preston Brooks

Southern representative who caned a Northern senator in the Senate chamber

Jefferson davis

president of the Confederate States of America

Abraham Lincoln

first republican president

John Bell

Constitutional Union candidate in the crucial election of 1860

Stephen Douglas

Illinois senator who was one of the major proponents of popular sovereignty

Roger Taney

Supreme Court chief justice who denied that blacks had citizenship rights

John Brown

fanatical antislavery terrorist

John C Fremont

war hero and the first Republican candidate for president

John J Crittenden

\---------  compromise failed in a last ditch effort to save the Union

John C Calhoun

\------- was the Southern spokesman for slavery in the territories

Dred Scott

\---------- was the name of the former slave who the Supreme Court denied was a citizen with rights

Fort Sumter, Charleston SC

The first shot of the War Between the States was fired at -----------

the constitutional union party

\-------- was the party created in 1860 by conservative Northerners and Southerners who wanted to preserve the Union.

Harpers Ferry

\-------- was a federal arsenal that was attacked in 1859 in hopes of sparking a slave revolt

the free-soil party slogan

\------- was “free soil, free labor, and free men”

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

The most effective propaganda tool for abolition was ___________

the fugitive slave law

_________ was a provision of the Compromise of 1850 actually worsened tensions between the North and the South.

could not support slavery

 According to Daniel Webster, the debate over slavery in the new territories was needless because they _________________

admission of California as a free state, abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia and organization of the New Mexico territory  without reference to slavery

The following were provisions of the Compromise of 1850:

 must be banned in any territory acquired from Mexico

The Wilmot Proviso said that slavery ________________________

 could not banned until a territory became a state

The Calhoun Resolutions said that slavery _______________________________

the gold rush

 The greatest spur to the American settlement of California was _____________

feared the loss of power in the senate

 The South resisted the admission of California as a state because they _________________

Lincolns call for troops

The event that caused the Upper South to secede was _________________

the election of Lincoln

The event that caused the Lower South to secede was ___________

ensure the transcontinental railroad would benefit Illinois

The Kansas -Nebraska Act was introduced to ________________________________

the Republican Party

 _________________ was the real successor to the Whig Party

the immorality of slavery 

According to Lincoln, _________________ was at the heart of the debate with Stephen Douglas

 territories can prohibit slavery by refusing to adopt laws that establish it

The basic position of the Freeport Doctrine was __________________________________

sack of Lawrence

Proslavery forces were responsible for the ______________