Prologue,Less.5: Nation Breaks Apart

An agreement allowing California to enter the Union as a free state but gave other territories in the Southwest the CHOICE to allow slavery or not allow slavery.

• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

A series of attacks and killings of Americans against Americans that shocked the nation, was called "____ ____." 

______ is the belief that the people have supreme power over government and government is to do what the people want them to do.

• Popular Sovereignty
• Manifest Destiny

An act that permitted voters of Kansas and Nebraska Territories to decide whether to allow or not allow slavery, using concept of Popular Sovereignty

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act

Name two of the three points of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 that severely angered northern citizens.

An act passed by congress to appease southern states unhappy w/California entering the union as a free state coupled with giving people in western territories power to decide if they want to allow slavery or not in their state.

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
• Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive Slave Act of 1787

Why were southerners unhappy with the election of Abraham Lincoln?

What was Abraham Lincoln's #1 goal as president?

• Make the south pay a heavy price for slavery
• Preserve the union at all costs
• Preserve southern culture & tradition at all costs
• Free some slaves but not all slaves

To formally withdrawal from membership of a union, alliance, or organization,

• confederate
• secede

A radical abolitionist who attempted to start a slave rebellion down South and was responsible for deaths of 16 people. He was seen as a hero up North but as the devil down South.

• Abraham Lincoln
• John Brown
• Dred Scott