McEwen Chapter 15 Quiz Flashcards
Proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas
His election caused the South to secede from the Union
Abraham Lincoln
Concept that suggests that states should vote whether or not to allow slavery
Popular sovereignty
Extreme abolitionist who raided Harper’s Ferry
John Brown
Elected president in 1856
James Buchanan
Anti-slavery book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
First state to secede from the Union
South Carolina
Place where the first shots of the Civil War were fired
Fort Sumter
Proposed the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
President who was a Mexican American war hero
Zachary Taylor
Political party formed to stop the spread of slavery
Free-soilers
Court case that declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
Dred Scott case
Why slave holders may not want to move to Kansas
Climate
Sectional leader from the North
Daniel Webster
Fugitive Slave Law designed to find a person guilty
Paid $10 if found guilty/paid $5 if found innocent
Four parts of the Missouri Compromise
- slave trade banned in Washington, D.C..
- California was a free state
- stricter Fugitive Slave Law
- popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
First capital of the Confederacy
Montgomery, Alabama
Site of a federal armory where John Brown attempted to start a slave rebellion
Harper’s Ferry
People who wanted to abolish slavery
Abolitionists
Confederacy
Southern portion of the United States
President who was considered a “Dark Horse” candidate
James Polk
Second capital of the Confederacy
Richmond, Virginia
Location of an unofficial civil war where John Brown murdered pro-slavery settlers
Bleeding Kansas
First Republican president
Abraham Lincoln
Proposal that attempted to ban slavery in the Mexican Cession
Wilmot Proviso
