Chapter 14: Toward Civil War

The Missouri Compromise preserved the balance between slave states and free states.

Both Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass ignored the issue of slavery during the 1848 presidential election.

formed by people who opposed slavery

arose from the Lincoln-Douglas debate

wrote "Civil Disobedience"

believed that neither Congress nor local governments had the authority to ban slavery from a territory

Stephen Douglas's resolution of Henry Clay's slavery plan

The enforcement of the Fugitive Slave act led to ____________ in the North

When Franklin Pierce was elected president in 1853, he intended to

James Polk and the Democrats favored the annexation of which state?