Toward Civil War

Maine

What Supreme Court decision meant that the Constitution protected slavery?

1856 Know-Nothing candidate

Lincoln was relatively unknown throughout the country before the ___.

name not on Southern ballots

proposed last-minute compromise

Who believed the conflict over slavery would interfere with the nation’s growth?

Missouri

Texas

The federal arsenal held weapons and ammunition.

South Carolina

The first president of the Confederate States of America was __.

The Wilmot Proviso allowed California to enter the Union as a free state.

A war between citizens of the same country is called ___.

Antislavery Whigs, Democrats, and Free-Soilers joined together to form the ___.

The Free-Soil Party forms to oppose slavery in territories.

The law that required all citizens to help catch runaway enslaved people was the __.

 An exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country is called ___.

The Union captain of Fort Sumter was

The first state to vote to secede was __.

Rival proslavery and antislavery governments existed in ___.

Missourians who traveled in armed groups to cross the border and vote in elections  were ___.

1856 Democratic candidate

Zachary Taylor adopted a proslavery platform for the 1848 presidential election.

Lincoln saw slavery as morally right.

A martyr is a person who dies for a great cause.

Which man's death became a rallying point for abolitionists?

sued for freedom

The Kansas-Nebraska Act declares popular sovereignty in Europe.

President Millard Fillmore persuaded several Whig representatives to not cast votes, or to __.

1856 Republican candidate

 The plan that preserved the balance between slave and free states in the Senate was the ___.

candidate of Southern Democrats

The Compromise of 1850 temporarily eases the debate on slavery in Congress.

Ohio

The first state to vote to secede was

"the Little Giant"

The ___ was a network of people that helped runaways get to freedom.

Southerners justified secession with the theory of __.

What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?