1. Bleeding Kansas

2. Outbreak of violence in the Kansas and Nebraska territory over Popular Sovereignty over the slavery

3. Election of Lincoln

4. 1860 election of a republican president who had moderate views on slavery.
Southerners feared he would take away slavery.
Lincoln did not gain a single electoral vote in the south.

5. Popular Sovereignty

6. Allowing a vote to decide an issue

7. Kansas-Nebraska Act

8. Takes back the Missouri Compromise
A state could decide if would be a free or slave state by a popular vote when it applied for statehood

9. Compromise of 1850

10. California enters as a free state
Popular sovereignty decides Utah and New Mexico territories
Fugitive Slave Law

11. Fugitive Slave Act

12. People were required to return all runaway slaves or face prosecution

13. John Brown

14. Abolitionist who was arrested for a raid on the Harper’s Ferry armory
Abolitionist who was arrested for a raid on the Harper’s Ferry armory. Wanted to lead a slave revolt.
Was a participant in Bleeding Kansas
Also led “John Brown’s Raid”

15. Harriet Beecher Stowe

16. Wrote the book: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
This was about the life a of slave in the south.
Highly controversial and angered many southerners

17. secede

18. To break away

19. Scott vs Sanford

20. Dred Scott, a slave sues for his freedom after living in free territory for some time. His case was denied on the fact he was considered property and not a person Angers many abolitionists because it says slavery is allowed in all states.