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| 614143423 | balance of power | the North and South had an equal number of states represented in the Senate and the House, and they needed to keep it that way | 0 | |
| 614143424 | Wilmot Proviso | banned slavery in the territory aquired in the Mexican War, supported by Northern antislaverists | 1 | |
| 614143425 | Lewis Cass | man who was the reputed father of popular sovereignty | 2 | |
| 614143426 | John Calhoun | man who disagreed with Wilmot Proviso and said unconstitutional because no citizen can be told not to bring their property (slave property) into the territories | 3 | |
| 614143427 | Thomas Hart Benton | man who said that seperately Wilmot and Calhoun were dull, but put together they became a pair of scissors and could cut the Union in half | 4 | |
| 614143428 | popular sovereignty | the doctrine that stated that the people who lived on the territory should determine the status of slavery on their land | 5 | |
| 614143429 | Free Soil | party that felt slavery was a threat to the American Dream ideal; run Van Buren in 1848 | 6 | |
| 614143430 | Zachary Taylor | run by the Whigs in 1848, and wins because everyone loves a hero | 7 | |
| 614143431 | California | state that explodes with people overnight because of gold rush | 8 | |
| 614143432 | free state | California applied right away to become a __________ | 9 | |
| 614143433 | Free Soil State Constitution | Congress must approve before a state can be declared free of slavery | 10 | |
| 614143434 | Underground Railroad | slaves' road to freedom | 11 | |
| 614143435 | Harriet Tubman | "Moses", helps lead slaves through the Underground Railroad | 12 | |
| 614143436 | Fugitive Slave Laws | laws demanded by southerners to cope with runaway slaves | 13 | |
| 614143437 | Compromise of 1850 | last hurrah for Henry Clay, John Calhoun, and Daniel Webster; huge attempt to make peace, try to please both North and South | 14 | |
| 614143438 | Clay's Compromise | compromise that lets CA join as free state, NM and UT use popular sovereignty, TX borders settled and debts paid, ends slave trade in DC, and enacts new fugitive-slave laws | 15 | |
| 614143439 | California | in Clay's Compromise, _______ is admitted as a free state | 16 | |
| 614143440 | New Mexico, Utah | in Clay's Compromise, _______ and _____ begin using popular sovereignty | 17 | |
| 614143441 | Texas | in Clay's Compromise, _____'s borders are settled and debts are paid | 18 | |
| 614143442 | DC | in Clay's Compromise, slave trade (auction) was ended in ________ | 19 | |
| 614143443 | fugitive slave laws | in Clay's Compromise, new _______ came into affect and bounty hunters could bring slaves home for cash rewards | 20 | |
| 614143444 | Omnibus Bill | this comes out of the Webster-Calhoun Debates, different writers write parts of it, it fails | 21 | |
| 614143445 | Stephen Douglas | the "Little Giant", man with a salesman-like mannerism; breaks Clay's bill into 5 different bills and makes sure they all get passed | 22 | |
| 614143446 | Whigs vs. Democrats | parties in the Election of 1852 | 23 | |
| 614143447 | Franklin Pierce | Democrats run this man in the Election of 1852; weak candidate, a nobody | 24 | |
| 614143448 | Winfield Scott | Whigs run this man in the Election of 1852, military hero | 25 | |
| 614143449 | Pierce | winner of Election of 1852 | 26 | |
| 614143450 | Free Soil Party | consists of Northern Whigs and Democrats | 27 | |
| 614143451 | filibustering | private armies invading countries | 28 | |
| 614143452 | William Walker | invaded Nicaragua with his small army, conquered it, and became leader of Nicaragua | 29 | |
| 614143453 | Cuba | America wanted to buy this island, but Spain would not sell it to them | 30 | |
| 614143454 | Ostend Manifesto | secret Franklin Pierce administration proposal to purchase or to wrest militarily Cuba from Spain, opposed greatly by the North, so it was quickly abandoned | 31 | |
| 614143455 | China | this Asian country gives America the most-favored-nation status because America wants to do business with the them, not sell them drugs (like the British); Americans flood into their country and they flood into America | 32 | |
| 614143456 | Matthew Perry | goes to Japan and shows them the cannon, forces American ways in Japan | 33 | |
| 614143457 | Railroad | America needs a new _____, but they can't decide where to put it to connect to California | 34 | |
| 614143458 | Jefferson Davis | proposes a railroad route from New Orleans to Los Angeles, purchases all land south of the Gila River and enables the railroad plan to go, easiest route | 35 | |
| 614143459 | Gadsden Purchase | land purchased to help Jefferson Davis's railroad route | 36 | |
| 614143460 | Stephen Douglas | wants to run railroad route from Chicago across Mississippi to Wyoming, but very unorganized | 37 | |
| 614143461 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | Douglas puts this Act through Congress, divide the territory in half, call top Nebraska and bottom Kansas; use popular sovereignty, but that violates Missouri Compromise, but passes anyway | 38 | |
| 614143462 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, wanted to show the North the wickedness of slavery, creates tension | 39 | |
| 614143463 | Missouri Border Ruffians vs. Free State Militia | both arm themselves and establish state capitols and declare they have won Kansas; Kansas thrown into Civil War | 40 | |
| 614143464 | Missouri Border Ruffians | for slavery in Bleeding Kansas | 41 | |
| 614143465 | Free State militia | against slavery in Bleeding Kansas | 42 | |
| 614143466 | Lawrence | Ruffians sack _______ (free state capitol) during Bleeding Kansas, Civil War begins in Kansas | 43 | |
| 614143467 | John Brown | antislavery man during Bleeding Kansas, lead his followers to Pottawatomie Creek to attack Lawrence | 44 | |
| 614143468 | Pottawatomie Creek | place where John Brown leads his men to begin Kansas's Civil War | 45 | |
| 614143469 | Republican | new political party, consists of angry Whigs, Free-Soilers, and Know-Nothings, party of upper-mid-west white American born; want internal improvements, free education, land in west to be free; party rises rapidly | 46 | |
| 614143470 | Charles Sumner | Republican Massachusetts Senator, made comments about slavery, says he understands why the south likes to have slaves, because they like to sleep with them; beaten by Preston Brooks in front of all the Senate | 47 | |
| 614143471 | Preston Brooks | South Carolina Senator; nephew of the man Sumner accuses of sleeping with his slaves; beats Sumner in front of the whole Senate | 48 | |
| 614143472 | Election of 1856 | Buchanan wins; Democrats vs. Republican vs. Know Nothing | 49 | |
| 614143473 | James Buchanan | Democratic Party runs in Election of 1856; bachelor, lawyer, out of country during Kansas-Nebrask Act | 50 | |
| 614143474 | John C. Fremont | Republican Party runs in Election of 1856; young, military guy involved in Mexican War, explorer | 51 | |
| 614143475 | Millard Filmore | Know-Nothing Party runs in Election of 1856; Zachary Taylor's VP, served as president when Taylor died | 52 | |
| 614143476 | Dredd Scott Case | Supreme Court Case--slave sues for his freedom, brought to North by his owner and lived on free land but still held in bondage | 53 | |
| 614143477 | Roger B. Tanney | says the Dredd Scott case is irrelevant because he can't sue for his freedom because proporty cannot sue their owner | 54 | |
| 614143478 | Lincoln/Douglas Debates | running for Senate, first, Douglas wins, but then Lincoln starts to draw Douglas into talking about things that would get him into trouble and not into office--puts Douglas in a difficult position; Douglas wins but Lincoln has shown his power | 55 | |
| 614143479 | Abraham Lincoln | abnormally tall man, raw boned, grew up in rural Kentucky and then moved to Illinois, not much schooling but an avid reader; brilliant, worked in manual labor, read law, self-educated lawyer, circuit lawyer | 56 | |
| 614143480 | Harper's Ferry | Potomac River, near VA, WV border; John Brown killed people to try to secure weapons, US army responded and hanged Brown (turns him into a hero and martyr) | 57 | |
| 614143481 | Election of 1860 | whigs gone, Republicans strong, Democrats splitting | 58 | |
| 614143482 | Douglas, Breckinridge | in election of 1860, Democrats run ________ in the North and _______ in the South | 59 | |
| 614143483 | Lincoln | in election of 1860, Republicans run _______ | 60 | |
| 614143484 | John Bell | in election of 1860, the Constitutional Party (Southern Whigs) run _________ | 61 | |
| 614143485 | South Carolina | state that begins all the secession in 1861 | 62 | |
| 614143486 | Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, Texas | states that follow South Carolina's secession; all cotton states | 63 | |
| 614143487 | The Confederate States of America | Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, Texas and South Carolina all secede from the Union and become _________ | 64 | |
| 614143488 | Jefferson Davis | The Confederate States of America elected _______ to be their president in 1861 | 65 |
