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| 3457320191 | Bleeding Kansas | A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent. | 0 | |
| 3457320193 | Black Republicans | label coined by the Democratic Party to attack the Republican Party as believers in racial equality. The Democrats used this fear to convince many whites to remain loyal to them | 1 | |
| 3457320197 | Abraham Lincoln | (1809-1865) Sixteenth president of the United States, he promoted equal rights for African Americans in the famed Lincoln- Douglas debates. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation and set in motion the Civil War, but he was determined to preserve the Union | 2 | |
| 3457320198 | American or "Know-Nothing" party | Originated in anti immigrant and anti Catholic organizations of the 1840s. Valued secrecy and often answered "I know nothing" to outsiders' questions. It wanted to unite native Protestants against Irish and German Catholics. Dozens elected to the House of Representatives after anger over Kansas-Nebraska act. | 3 | |
| 3457320201 | Freeport Doctrine | Doctrine developed by Stephen Douglas that said the exclusion of slavery in a territory could be determined by the refusal of the voters to enact any laws that would protect slave property. It was unpopular with Southerners, and thus cost him the election. | 4 | |
| 3457320202 | Constitutional Union Party | A middle-of-the-road party, fearing for the Union and the split between the Democratic Party (with the two nominees Douglas and Breckinridge and all), organized this party, sneered at as the "Do Nothing" or "Old Gentleman's" party; it consisted mainly of former Whigs and Know-Nothings, a veritable "gathering of graybeards" | 5 | |
| 3457320203 | Dred Scott | A black slave, had lived with his master for 5 years in Illinois and Wisconsin Territory. Backed by interested abolitionists, he sued for freedom on the basis of his long residence on free soil. The ruling on the case was that He was a black slave and not a citizen, so he had no rights. | 6 | |
| 3457320206 | Harper's Ferry Raid | Occurred in October of 1859. John Brown of Kansas attempted to create a major revolt among the slaves. He wanted to ride down the river and provide the slaves with arms from the North, but he failed to get the slaves organized. Brown was captured. The effects of Harper's Ferry Raid were as such: the South saw the act as one of treason and were encouraged to separate from the North, and Brown became a martyr to the northern abolitionist cause. | 7 | |
| 3457320207 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | She wrote the abolitionist book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. It helped to crystallize the rift between the North and South. It has been called the greatest American propaganda novel ever written, and helped to bring about the Civil War. | 8 | |
| 3457320209 | Jefferson Davis | A leading southern politician of the 1850s, he believed slavery essential to the South and held that it should expand into the territories without restriction. He served as U.S. senator from Mississippi (1847-1851, 1857-1861) and secretary of war (1853-1857) before becoming president of the Confederate States of America (1861-1865) during the Civil War. | 9 | |
| 3457320210 | John Bell | A wealthy slaveowner from Tennessee who served in both the House and the Senate, he ran for U.S. President against Lincoln, Breckinridge, and Douglas in 1860 with the Constitutional Union Party on a moderate pro-slavery platform. | 10 | |
| 3457320211 | John Breckinridge | A Senator from Kentucky and the fourteenth Vice President of the United States, he ran against Lincoln, Bell, and Douglas in the 1860 Presidential election on an extreme pro-slavery platform. | 11 | |
| 3457320212 | John Brown | Well-known abolitionist. used violence to stop slavery immediately, involved in the Pottawatomie Massacre, he was tried, convicted of treason and hung... he became a martyr. | 12 | |
| 3457320215 | Know-nothings | American Party was official name. Based on nativist sentiment and participated in discrimination against immigrants. Influential in policy that is greater than their numbers, shows strength of anti-immigrant sentiments | 13 | |
| 3457320216 | LeCompton Constitution | The pro-slavery constitution suggested for Kansas' admission to the union supporting the existence of slavery in the proposed state and protected rights of slaveholders. It was rejected by Kansas, making Kansas an eventual free state. | 14 | |
| 3457320217 | Lincoln-Douglass Debates | Lincoln challenged Stephen Douglas to a series of 7 debates. Though Douglas won the senate seat, these debates gave Lincoln fame and helped him to later on win the presidency. These debates were a foreshadowing of the Civil War. | 15 | |
| 3457320219 | Panic of 1857 | Economic downturn caused by overspeculation of western lands, railroads, gold in California, grain. Mostly affected northerners, who called for higher tariffs and free homesteads | 16 | |
| 3457320220 | Pottawatomie Massacre | In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence (Kansas) by pro-slavery forces, John Brown and a band of abolitionist settlers (some of them members of the Pottawatomie Rifles) killed five pro-slavery settlers north of Pottawatomie Creek in Franklin County, Kansas. This was one of the many bloody episodes in Kansas preceding the American Civil War, which came to be known collectively as Bleeding Kansas. | 17 | |
| 3457320223 | Roger Taney | As chief justice, he wrote the important decision in the Dred Scott case, upholding police power of states and asserting the principle of social responsibility of private property. He was Southern and upheld the fugitive slave laws. | 18 |
