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Made to protect the protective tariff.

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John Brown was an armed abolitionist who led a revolt to recover Harpers Ferry.

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A document where South Carolina explains why it wanted to secede.

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This act denied fugitive’s rights to a jury trial, supporting the idea that slaves were not people.

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Southerners who believed that the only option was to leave the US.

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The northerners in the civil war who were against slavery.

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Southerners who believed in secession as a last resort.

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The Dred Scott decision decided that slaves were property and could be taken anywhere.

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A political party that did not believe that states should have to give up their slaves, but that slavery should not spread.

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The presidential election where Abraham Lincoln was made the president of the US. Final nail in the coffin with secessionists.

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The Compromise of 1850 dealt with westward expansion by admitting California as a free-state, outlawing the slave trade in DC, and enacting popular sovereignty.

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The seventh president of the unites states.

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A compromise aiding states that did not want to be a slave state or a free state despite the 36 30' line.

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A free-soiler who served as the United State's sixteenth president.

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A violent abolitionist from West Virginia.

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American statesman and the 7th vie president from South Carolina

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Political, violent events in the US lasting from 1854-1861.

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A battle between America and Mexico from 1846 to 1848.

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An effort made by congress in an attempt to diminish the debate between the north and south. Created the 36 30' line.