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What Southern fort did Lincoln send an unarmed fleet with provision to?
Fort Sumter
Why did the South think secession was ok?
Because they believed the government was not holding up their side of the Constitution by taking away their property(slaves)
What was the end of the Underground Railroad?
Canada
What were extreme Southern Democrats who called for secession?
fire eaters
Which candidate of the 1860 election had absolutely no support from the Southern states?
Abraham Lincoln
What two candidates split the Democratic Party in the election of 1850?
Stephen Douglas John C. Breckenridge
Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Stephen Douglas
What man pushed popular sovereignty?
Stephen Douglas
Who ruled that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional?
Roger B. Taney
Who led federal troops to Harpers Ferry to capture John Brown?
Robert E. Lee
What is a statement of a what a political party stands for on various issues?
platform
What is the term for "support for eliminating slavery"?
abolitionism
What is the term that means "the freeing of the slaves"?
emancipation
What is the term that means "a state leaving the Union"?
secession
What is the idea that settlers should decide the slavery issue for themselves?
popular sovereignty
What escaped slave returned to the South to help other on the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
