Civil War Review

Idea that called for voters in a new territory to decide whether to allow slavery

• secede

• sectionalism

• popular sovereignty

• nullification

This event causes southern states secede from the union

• Election of 1860

• Compromise of 1850

• John Brown's Raid

• Dred Scott Decision

A formal withdrawal from the union

• compromise

• nullification

• secede

• border states

A law that maintained America's slave/free state balance

• Dred Scott Decision

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

Law that made it a crime to aid runaway slaves

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision

Law that divided the Louisiana Purchase into new territories and allowed popular sovereignty to decide slavery

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

A political party formed in 1854 united against the spread of slavery in the West

• Democratic Party

• Whig Party

• Republican Party

• Know-Nothing Party

He attempted to capture a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in hopes of starting a slave rebellion

• Stephen Douglas

• Preston Brooks

• Dred Scott

• John Brown

Author of the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Roger B. Taney

• Dred Scott

• Jefferson Davis

US senator that proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dred Scott

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Stephen Douglas

• Roger B Taney