Chapter 15 Study Guide

The Election of 1860*

John Breckinridge

Abraham Lincoln

John Bell

Stephen Douglas

nativists

John C. Fremont

Lecompton Constitution

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Roger Taney

segregation

popular sovereignty

free soilers

Ostend Manifesto

Pottawatomie Massacre.

Raid on Harpers Ferry*

Gadsden Purchase

Dred Scott decision*

Wilmot Proviso

Kansas-Nebraska Act*

Missouri Compromise

Compromise of 1850

Lincoln Douglas debates views on race and slavery

The Freeport Doctrine

Why Southern states seceded from the Union

Fugitive Slave Act*

"Beecher's Bibles"