Chapter 15 A Divided Nation

principle that would allow voters in a particular territory to decide whether they wanted to ban or permit slavery 

• secession
• popular sovereignty

created the Compromise of 1850 to resolve the issue of California's admission to the Union

• Henry Clay
• Franklin Pierce

fugitive slave whom abolitionists tried to rescue from jail.

• Anthony Burns
• Abraham Lincoln

president elected to office in 1852 who promised to uphold the Compromise of 1850

• Henry Clay
• Franklin Pierce

divided the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories in which slavery issues would be determined by popular sovereignty

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott decision

Supreme Court ruling that denied that African Americans had rights as citizens

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott decision

Republican who wanted to prevent the spread of slavery 

• Anthony Burns
• Abraham Lincoln

Stephen Douglas's assertion that only citizens of a state or territory should decide the status of slavery in that state or territory 

• Freeport Doctrine
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

act of formally withdrawing from the Union 

• secession
• popular sovereignty

proposed a series of constitutional amendments to try to save the Union 

• John J. Crittenden
• Freeport Doctrine