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A political leader of the nineteenth century, known for twice running against Abraham Lincoln

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issued on August 8th, 1846 by Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman David wilmot

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part of the seven principles, that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people

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restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being.

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founded in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into US territories and the admission of slave states into the Union.

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A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it, that attempted to give something to both sides

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A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaveswho had escaped to the free states.

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A novel, first published serially, by Harriet Beecher Stowe; it paints a grim picture of life under slavery.

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1854 allowed citizens in the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide locally whether to allow slavery

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a person advocating or supporting republican government.

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A controversial ruling made by the Supreme Court in 1857, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War.

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United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; remembered for his ruling that slaves and their descendants have no rights as citizens

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16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth

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A series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in 1858

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in spite of the Dred Scott decision, slavery could be excluded from territories of the United States by local legislation.

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was an American politician who served as the only President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.

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Harpers Ferry is a town in West Virginia. Paths wind through Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, which has 19th-century buildings

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The Constitutional Union Party was a political party in the United States created in 1860 which ran against the Republicans and Democrats as a fourth party in 1860.

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as an American politician, attorney, and planter. One of Tennessee's most prominent antebellum politicians

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rights that promote a position of legal and social equality of women with men.