Causes of the Civil War

This week students will study causes of the Civil War.  We begin with the following words, terms, people and places:

sectionalism
popular sovereignty
Wilmot Proviso
Free-Soil Party                                                          
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Anthony Burns
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Franklin Pierce
Stephen Douglas
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Pottawatomie Massacre
Charles Sumner
Preston Brooks
Republican Party
John C. Fremont
Dred Scott
Roger B. Taney
Dred Scott Decision
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Freeport Doctrine