1840-1861 Pre-Civil War TERMS
Chapters 16,18 and 19
Expansionism
Mexican-American War
Nativism
Missouri Compromise
Popular Sovereignty re slavery
Nullification
Sectionalism
Abolitionists
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin
state’s rights
secession
Compromise of 1850
Kansas Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
LaCompton Resolution
John Brown’s Raid
Dred Scott decision
Roger Taney
James Buchanan
Harriet Tubman
Underground Railroad
Republican Party
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen A Douglas
Fugitive Slave Law
Free soil platform
Confederacy
Charles Sumner
- The courts and national leaders made a variety of attempts to resolve the issue of slavery in the territories. But these ultimately failed. Explain why.
- By 1859, was the Civil War inevitable?
- What was the most important cause of the Civil War?
- Know the arguments presented by Abolitionists against slavery, and arguments for slavery on racial and moral grounds by Southerners.