Chapter 13- The Road To Civil War
Three laws that Taney suggested violated the 5th Amendment....
"depriving them of life, liberty and property "
Victor of the 1860 Presidential election...
Abraham Lincoln
Date of Fort Sumter....
April 12, 1861
Date of Lincoln's inauguration....
April 14, 1861
General of the Confederate army at Fort Sumter...
Beauregard
Bloodshed caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act....
Bleeding Kansas
A proposal for 6 amendments & 4 resolutions to solve the slavery issue..
Crittenden Compromise
According to the Compromise of 1850, slavery was abolished in the...
District of Columbia
Supreme Court case involving a former Missouri slave...
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Immediate cause of the Civil War...
Fort Sumter
14th President of the United States...
Franklin Pierce
Three political groups that joined the Republican party...
Free soil party, northern democrats, and anti-slavery Whigs
Law requiring citizens to return escaped slaves to the South...
Fugitive Slave Act
Woman who wrote the book "that made this Great War'....
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Senator known as "The Great Compromiser".....
Henry Clay
15th President of the United States....
James Buchanan
Elected President of the Confederate States of America...
Jefferson Davis
Southerner who tried to seize the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, VA....
John Brown
Proslavery constitution established for the Kansas Territory....
Lecompton Constitution
13th President of the United States....
Millard Fillmore
6 states that followed South Carolina into succession...
Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, & Texas
Compromise that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state & Maine as a free state...
Missouri Compromise
Law that was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act....
Missouri Compromise
Law that allowed for the building of a transcontinental railroad...
Pacific Railway Act
Abraham's Lincoln's political party was...
Republican
New political party formed in 1854....
Republican
Political party that replace the Whig party....
Republican
Chief Justice during this case...
Roger B. Taney
Decision (7-2) of the Supreme Court...
Scott, as slave, had no right to sue in the federal court and furthermore claim that no black slave, or free could become citizens of the United States.
In Congress, Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery advocate, caned....
Senator Charles Sumner
First southern state to secede from the Union...
South Carolina
John C. Calhoun was a proponent of....
States' rights ; he felt that slavery should remain a state rather than a federal issue
Illinois senator who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act ....
Stephen Douglas
Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852....
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A network of safe houses that helped runaway slaves....
Underground Railroad
Four additional seceded states...
Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, & Tennessee
Twelfth President of the United States....
Zachary Taylor
The Ostend Manifesto involved America's desire to extend Manifest Destiny to....
expanding the borders of the United States
Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster was a proponent....
he agreed with Northern Whigs that slavery shouldn't be extended into the territories.
Term used to explain the right of citizens to decide if there state should be slave or free...
popular sovereignty
The concept that a territory could decide to be free or slave...
popular sovereignty
Direct result of the 1860 election....
southern states decided to secede
Railroad proposed to connect Eastern and Western U.S....
transcontinental railroad