After reading Chapter 14, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following:

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

William H. Seward and irrepressible conflict

popular (squatter) sovereignty

Daniel Webster

Henry Clay's omnibus bill and the Compromise of 1850

Millard Fillmore

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Anthony Burns, and personal-liberty laws

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

American (or Know-Nothing) party

Stephen A. Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act

free soil and free labor

Gadsden Purchase

John A. Quitman, William Walker, and filibustering

Ostend Manifesto

"Bleeding Kansas"

Lecompton versus Topeka legislature and the Lecompton constitution

sack of Lawrence and Pottawatomie massacre

Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks

John C. Frémont

James Buchanan

Roger B. Taney and Dred Scott v. Sandford

Lincoln-Douglas debates and Douglas's Freeport Doctrine

Panic of 1857

John C. Breckenridge

John Bell and the Constitutional Union party

Jefferson Davis and the Confederate States of America

Crittenden compromise

Fort Sumter