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a group of radical pro-slavery Southerners in the Antebellum South who urged the separation of Southern states into a new nation, which became the Confederate States of America

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believed that the remaining slave states should secede at once and at the same time, rather than one at a time, as they believed that doing so would impress the federal government with the seriousness of their resolve

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was a political party started after Compromise of 1850 to define politicians who supported the Compromise

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Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union was a proclamation by the government of South Carolina to explain its reasons for seceding from the United States

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the election in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge

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was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia

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American abolitionist who believed and advocated that armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery

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American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States during the Civil War and was assassinated in April.

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legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Dred Scott who had resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States

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was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852

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a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery and "southern" elements in Kansas

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law provided for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory

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It allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not to allow slavery within their borders also repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´

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a compromise where the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished

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was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848

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was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837

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that authorized the use of military force against any state that resisted the tariff acts

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was an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina, and the seventh Vice President of the United States from 1825 to 1832

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are tariffs that are enacted with the aim of protecting a domestic industry

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was a United States sectional political crisis in 1832 which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government

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an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted