AUSH Chapter 16 - Antebellum Period

This president signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Franklin Pierce

• Millard Fillmore

• Zachary Taylor

• James Buchanan

This president failed to keep the country unified in the years immediately preceding the Civil War

• Zachary Taylor

• Millard Fillmore

• Franklin Pierce

• James Buchanan

This president signed the Compromise of 1850

• Zachary Taylor

• Millard Fillmore

• Franklin Pierce

• James Buchanan

This was the first president after the Mexican War, who died after a year in office

• Zachary Taylor

• Millard Fillmore

• Franklin Pierce

• James Buchanan

A Senator who was assaulted in the halls of Congress after his speech "Crime Against Kansas"

• Charles Sumner

• Andrew Butler

• Preston Brooks

• Stephen Douglas

An attempt to purchase Cuba from Spain

• Treaty of Wanghia

• Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

• Ostend Manifesto

• Wilmot Proviso

Slaveholders, usually from Missouri, who fled to Kansas to vote on slavery

• Jaywalkers

• Border ruffians

• Border hoppers

• Free Soilers

Stephen Douglas’s belief that popular sovereignty should be used to determine the slave question in western territories

• Free Soil Party

• Freeport Doctrine

• Wilmot Proviso

• Ostend Manifesto

First battle of the Civil War

• Fort Sumter

• Fort Lincoln

• Gettysburg

• Antietam

Caused primarily by the influx of gold from the California Gold Rush, and a very low tariff that damaged northern industry

• Panic of 1837

• Panic of 1819

• Panic of 1857

• Panic of 1893