Chapter 13 Flashcards
(37 cards)
Location where the first shot of the War Between the States fired
Fort Sumpter
Belief that each territory can decide on the status of slavery within its borders
Popular Sovereignty
Acceptance of slavery in the South, rejection of slavery in the territories
Free-Soiler
California gold rush
Forty-niner
Radical Southerner
Fire-eater
Anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic
Know-nothing
Antislavery, probusiness
Republican
Slave revolt
Secret six
Leaving the union
Secession
Southern representative who caned a Northern senator in the Senate chamber
Preston Brooks
Constitutional Union candidate in the crucial election of 1860
John Bell
Illinois senator who was one of the major proponents of popular sovereignty
Stephen Douglas
War hero and the first Republican candidate for president
John C. Fremont
Last Democrat, pro-compromise president (1857-61)
James Buchanan
Fanatical antislavery terrorist
John Brown
Supreme Court Chief Justice who denied that blacks had citizenship rights
Roger Taney
First Republican president
Abraham Lincoln
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Southern Democrat candidate in the crucial election of 1860
John C Breckinridge
This said slavery must be banned in any territory acquired from Mexico
Wilmont Provisio
This stated that could not be banned in any territory became a state
Calhoun Resolutions
This would ensure that the transcontinental railroad would benefit Illinois
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Territories can prohibit slavery by refusing to adopt laws that establish it
Freeport Doctrine
His compromise measure failed in a last-ditch effort to save the Union
John J. Crittenden