Declared all land above the 36'30 line to be free and that below to be slave territories.

New party in the 1850s that came about as a result of the KS-NB Act.

Notion that the North and South were different and those differences grew resulting in division.

Term for land given to the US after the Mexican American War?

SCOTUS declared that Congress could not abolish slavery anywhere as slaves were property.

Author of the KS-NB Act.

Concept that a territory itself can determine to be free or slave.

This land acquisition post-Mexican American War separately as this southern state was its own nation.

Policy that admitted CA to the union as a free state and carved up the UT and NM territories.

Violent outbursts between free-soil and pro-slavery forces in Kansas.

Means a state determines it no longer wishes to remain in the union.

The purchase of this small southern strip of land in NM and AZ was mostly about building the railroad.

Declared that popular sovereignty would determine if free or slave states and in an area where the railroad would run through.

Led a raid on Harper's Ferry in an attempt to free slaves that resulted in his capture and hanging.

Notion that this cash crop dominated the economy and politics of the US.

The founding of gold led to the mass movement of this group seeking their riches in California about a year after it was discovered.

Federal agents would receive more money for returning runaway slaves than letting them go free.

This man was caned on the Senate floor after his 'Crimes Against Kansas' Speech.

Southerners who would not compromise whatsoever on the issue of slavery and sought to secede.

Thomas Jefferson claimed that the Missouri Compromise was like claiming this animal by the ears.