Lead up to Civil War

What act gave the people in certain territories the right to chose to be either a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

What is it called when people decide on an issue by voting?

• Secede

• State's rights

• Popular sovereignty

• Popular opinion

A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory.

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• The Underground Raildroad

• Bleeding Nebraska

• Bleeding Kansas

Political party that opposed slavery and fought against adding slave states

• Republicans

• Free-soilers

• Democrats

• Whigs

A person who wanted to end slavery

• Bleeding Kansas

• Republican

• Confederates

• Abolitionist

An abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing Armories in southern territory and giving weapons to slaves

• John Brown

• Abe Lincoln

• Dred Scott

Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not viewed as citizens but as property

• Plessy vs Ferguson

• Dred Scott Decision

• Brown vs Board of Ed

• Topika vs Kansas

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders

• Dred Scott Decision

• Bleeding Kansas

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada

• John Brown's Raid

• Underground Railroad

• Bleeding Kansas

• The Election of 1860

To leave or withdraw

• Secede

• Popular sovereignty

• Abolitionist

• Free-soiler