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Road to War

Events, people, etc. leading to the Civil War

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The Supreme Court Chief Justice who issued the Dred Scott Decision Roger Taney
The favoring of "native Born" Americans over immigrants nativism
A political party with its origins in Ripon, Wisconsin formed as a reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 Republican Party
16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
An 1853 purchase from Mexico that added land to what are now the southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico Gadsden Purchase
Illinois Senator and force behind the Kansas-Nebraska Act Stephen Douglas
Militant white abolitionist who was hanged for his violent, anti-slavery activities John Brown
To withdraw formally from membership in an organization, association, or alliance secede
Another name for the Confederate States of America Confederacy
First Republican Party candidate for U.S. President John Fremont
A fort in Charleston, South Carolina's harbor from which Confederate troop fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter at the start of the Civil War Fort Moultrie
The land Mexico was forced to sell to the United States at the end of the Mexican War Mexican Cession
A formal ceremony at which a President takes the oath of office inauguration
Abolitionist; escaped slave Frederick Douglass
One of the founders of the Republican Party Horace Greeley
15th U.S. President James Buchanan
Troops stationed at a town garrison
The doctrine whereby citizens in new territories were allowed to decide for themselves if they wished to have slavery popular sovereignty
Confederate States of America CSA
14th U.S. President Franklin Pierce
White abolitionist and publisher of the Liberator newspaper William Lloyd Garrison
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