Vocab!
Missouri is a slave state or a free state?
Slave State
Maine is a slave state or a free state?
Free state!
The main issue in the election of 1844 was the annexation of which state?
What is Texas
This was the month, day, and year the Civil War started.
What is April 12th of 1861
Name three candidates and their parties during the Presidential Election of 1860
Stephen Douglas- Norther Democrat
John C. Breckinridge- Southern Democrat
Abraham Lincoln- Republican Nominated
What are the quadrantes of the boundary of slavery?
36° 30° N
This term means run away slaves
What is fugative
This person proposed that neither Congress nor local governments had the authority to ban slavery from a territory.
Who is John C. Calhoun
Explain the Freeport Doctrine
Could the people of a territory legally exclude slavery before achieving statehood? Douglas replied, people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholders’ rights. He lost support in the south, but anti slavery people liked it, was known as Freeport Doctrine
Name the 6 states that joined South Carolina in February of 1861
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia
What happened on March 4th, 1861?
Lincoln's Inauguration
This individual was an opponent of Abraham Lincoln
Who is Stephen Douglas
This law required all citizens to help catch runaway enslaved people
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
Explain the significance of the Kansas Nebraska Act
Senator Stephen Douglas proposed organizing the region, West of Missouri and Iowa as territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Dougals wanted to expand
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Preserved the balance between slave and free states in the senate and brought about a bitter debate in congress over slavery
This term means withdrawal of the union
What is Secede
This location held the first attack of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter
In the election of 1856, the presidency was secured for James Buchanan by whose votes?
Who are Democrats
Who was Dred Scott and what did he fight for?
Dred Scott🡪 enslaved African American who had been taken away by his owner from the South to live for a time in Illinois and Wisconsin.Owner died = antislavery lawyers helped Scott sue for freedom, claiming that he had for a time lived on free soil.
Where is Fort Sumter located?
Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
This individual was a Free-Soil party Candidate
Who is Martin Van Buren
This individual ruled on Dred Scott decision
Who is Roger B. Taney
Who was Henry Clay?
Speaker of the house: Henry Clay of Kentucky maneuvered the Senate Bill to passage in 1820: it divided 3 proposals.
What was the outcome of the Supreme Court's decision of the Dred Scott Decision?
Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in any territory due to the Missouri Compromise
Dred Scott decision divided the country even more
What are the names of Ms. Maron's dogs?
Tucker and Andi