Chapter 14

A political party that was designed to keep slavery out of the territories and states

Prevented the Union from falling apart

A mail service delivered by horseback riders

An act where enforcing greater acts on runaways

Law enforcers who worked for the U.S. government

A senator from Illnois

Allowing people to decided an issue by voting

A compromise act that allowed for popular sovereignty on the issue of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska

An anti-slavery activist who murdered people who were pro-slavery

Anti-slavery political party founded in 1854

15th president U.S. President 1857-1861

A slave who was taken by his master to a free state. His supporters sued for his freedom

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who issued the Dred Scott decision

Location where John Brown led an attack of antislavery forces to seize weapons at a U.S. Army General

Chosen by Southern Democrats as nominee for President in 1860

Chosen by Northern Democrats as nominee for President in 1860

Unionist candidate for president in 1860

A political party that sought to choose a Presidential candidate that would appeal to both northerners and southerners

To formally withdraw from the Union

Name given to the southern states that seceded from the U.S.

President of the Confederate States of America

A compromise plan on the issue of slavery in 1861. It was an effort to keep the southern states from secceding

An army fort in South Carolina. Location of the first fighting of the Civil War

A defense force

Ruling by the US Supreme Court that said dred Scott would remain as a slave

The belief that one race is superior than others

Separation of people based by race