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| An 1846 proposal to outlaw slavery in any territory acquired by the U.S. from the Mexican War. |
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| Henry Clay's solution to the issue of slavery with California statehood; included: 1)California=free state, 2) no slave trade in D.C., 3) slavery allowed in new territories, 4) stronger fugitive slave law. |
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| A fictional account of slavery written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 which increased tensions over the issue of slavery. |
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| A democratic system where citizens vote to decide an issue. |
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| An 1854 law by which slavery in the Kansas & Nebraska territories would be decided by popular sovereignty. |
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| An extreme abolitionist who murdered five pro-slavery men at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas in 1856; and who led a failed raid on the federal arsenal Harper's Ferry, Viriginia in an attempt to start a slave rebellion on 16 October 1859. He was hanged. |
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| Nicknamed "the Pathfinder," he was the Republican candidate for president in 1856, he lost the election to Democrat James Buchanan. |
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| 8. Dred Scott v. Sandford |
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| Supreme Court case which ruled in 1857 that slavery could not be limited because to do so would deny slave owners their right to property; it also stated that blacks were not citizens. |
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| To withdraw from the Union of states; South Carolina was the first state to do so on 20 December 1860. |
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| 10. Confederate States of America |
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| The name for the alliance of eleven southern states which sought indepedence from the United States. First capital city = Montgomery, Alabama; moved to Richmond, Virginia. |
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