Mrs. Lombardi Lesson 16-1 and Lesson 16-2

Compromise of 1850

This included the Fugitive Slave Act.

Civil War

This is the name for a war between citizens of the same country.

Republican Party

This is the party that the Antislavery Whigs, Democrats and Free-Soldiers joined together to form.

Kansas

This is the state where rival pro-slavery and antislavery governments exist at the same time.

John Brown

This person led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

Dred Scott

This relates to a Supreme Court decision that ruled that the Constitution protected slavery.

border ruffians

This term refers to pro-slavery activists who crossed the Kansas border to vote.

Wilmot Proviso called for this.

banning slavery in any lands in the U.S. acquired from Mexico

Bleeding Kansas

name used in 1856 newspaper stories about events in Lawrence, Kansas

Kansas-Nebraska Act

put the issue of slavery to popular vote

true

An arsenal is a storage site for weapons.

violent abolitionist

John Brown

false

Lincoln believed slavery was moral.

Douglas' accusation against Lincoln

Lincoln wanted African Americans to be fully equal to whites.

1858 congressional election

Lincoln was largely unknown before this election.

36 30'

North Latitude

false

Pro-slavery groups considered John Brown a martyr.

popular sovereignty

Stephen A. Douglas proposed this an an alternative to the Missouri Compromise.

true

The American Party grew quickly due to its anti-immigrant views.

true

The Know-Nothings chose Millard Fillmore as their candidate in the 1856 presidential election.