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A political leader of the nineteenth century, known for twice running against Abraham Lincoln — for a seat in the Senate from Illinois in 1858, which he won, and for the presidency in 1860, which he lost.

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It prohibited the expansion of slavery into any territory acquired by the United States from Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War settlement.

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f the peoples' rule, is part of the seven principles, that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power.

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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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was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections as well as in some state elections.

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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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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed citizens in theKansas and Nebraska territories to decide locally whether to allow slavery.

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A political party that began in 1854 and is today one of the two major political parties in the United States

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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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Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln, President Lincoln Example of: attorney, lawyer.

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A series of debates between Abraham Lincolnand Stephen A. Douglas in 1858, when both were campaigning for election to the United States Senate from Illinois.

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was Stephen Douglas's doctrine that, 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, a Civil War Museum and John Brown’s Fort, a key site in an 1859 abolitionist raid.

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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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was an American politician, attorney, and planter.

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Women's rights is the fight for the idea that women should have equal rights with men.