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John Brown
Radical abolitionist who led a
failed raid at Harpers Ferry,
Virginia.
Row 1, Col 1
Missouri Compromise
Agreement proposed by Henry
Clay that kept balance
of free & slave states by making
Missouri a slave state & Maine
a free state.
1,2
slavery
What was the main topic of the
Lincoln-Douglas debates?
1,3
South Carolina
First state to secede.
1,4
Jefferson Davis
Senator from Mississippi who
became President of the
Confederate States of America
2,1
Dred Scott Case
What Supreme Court decision ruled
that the Constitution protected slavery
which meant that restricting slavery was
unconstitutional.
2,2
sectionalism
The idea that a person shows
loyalty to a part or region of
the country.
2,3
Confederate States of America
Southern seceding states that
formed their own country
and called it this.
2,4
Stephen Douglas
He ran against & beat Abraham
Lincoln in the 1858 Illinois
congressional (senate) election.
3,1
Fugitive Slave Act
Law that required all citizens
to help catch runaway slaves and
made it illegal to help runaway
slaves.
3,2
states rights
The concept that the South
justified their secession with
stating they could leave the
Union when they felt the govt.
didn‘t treat them well
3,3
border states
Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky,
and Missouri were slave states
that stayed with the Union.
3,4
John Breckinridge
He ran as a Southern Democrat
in the 1860 presidential election
and lost.
4,1
Wilmot Proviso
Plan that stated that
slavery should not be allowed
in any lands acquired from
Mexico.
4,2
Republican Party
What did Antislavery
Democrats, Whigs, and Freesoilers join together to form?
4,3
Stephen Douglas
Who won the senate election
after the Lincoln-Douglas
debates?
4,4
James Buchanan
He won the 1856 presidential
election but did nothing to stop
the nation from further dividing
over slavery.
5,1
Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act was the
5th part of what law?
5,2
popular sovereignty
Stephen A. Douglas’s idea of
letting the people of a state
decide through voting if they
would have slavery or not.
5,3
Fort Sumter
Place where the first shots
of the Civil War were fired.
5,4