Social Studies Ch. 15 - 2

Period of violence in Kansas following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Border ruffians (Missouri) vs. Jayhawkers (Kansas)

Founded in the mid 1850's by anti-slavery ex-Whigs and ex-Free Soilers. Was major opposition to Democratic Party

Illinois Senator who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act, ran for President against Abe Lincoln

Armed proslavery supporters from Missouri who came to vote in Kansas

Series of debates between Abe Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during 1858 Senate campaign. A large focus of the debates was the issue of slavery.

The rights of the state overrule the rights of the federal government. States used this argument as cause for secession

California came in as a free state. South didn't gain a state, but Fugitive Slave Act was enacted

First president of the Confederate States of America