People
Republican candidate for the presidency in 1856 who opposed the spread of slavery in the West.
John C. Fremont
This was similar to the Missouri Compromise of 1820 to settle disputes between free states and slave states.
Compromise of 1850
Widespread violence erupted in Kansas over slavery in the mid-1850s mainly due to
The practice of popular sovereignty
The Pottawatomie Massacre
The Missouri Compromise
The threat of secession
1. The practice of popular sovereignty
Who was the current senator and who was the challenger?
Stephen Douglas vs Abraham Lincoln
___________ was a slave who sued for freedom, claiming that by living in free territory, he had earned his freedom.
Dred Scott
___________ means to leave [the Union].
Secede
The election of 1852 led directly to which of the following?
The Great Compromise
The Rush-Bagot Agreement
The Northwest Ordinance
The Missouri Compromise
4. The Missouri Compromise
Who was elected in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
How did each candidate view slavery and popular sovereignty?
Lincoln not against slavery; just not want it to expand to territories
Douglas was all about letting people chose to be slave or not (not a fan of slavery though)
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court wrote the majority opinion for the Dred Scott decision.
Roger B. Taney
This person was responsible for settling the dispute over the expansion of slavery that arose after the Mexican War.
Henry Clay
California’s admission as a free state after the Mexican War aroused controversy because
Many Californians already held slaves
It would upset the balance between free states and slave states
Mexico still claimed that California was part of Mexico's territory
Most Califrnians wanted independence
2. It would upset the balance between free states and slave states
What state was the first to secede?
South Carolina
What state were they running for senator in?
Illinois
___________ was a fugitive slave whose arrest led to violence between government officials and abolitionists.
Anthony Burns
This became a law due to Stephen Douglas’s claim that states and territories should determine the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Name the "seven southern states secede"
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida
Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas
What was the result of the debates/election?
Douglas won (kept his senate seat)
Lincoln becomes big/influential with Republicans, enough so he will be nominated in the 1860 election.
Democratic Candidate for president in 1852 who promised to enforce the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act.
Franklin Pierce
What is the belief that voters should be given the right to decide if slavery would be permitted or banned.
Popular Sovereignty
What might be the outcome of this convention? Why? “As we sat around the long table today the talk turned to the [secession] convention, so soon to meet in Tallahassee [Florida]. Father said he considered this the most important year in the history of the South. He is for secession, and he does not think that war will necessarily [certainly] follow. Brother Junius is a strong Union man, and he thinks we will certainly have war. If the South secedes, the North will fight to keep us. If we do not secede, all property rights will be taken from us and we will be forced to fight to hold our own.”
–Susan Bradford
Adapted from Heroines of Dixie
Edited by Katharine Jones
What might be the outcome of this convention? Why?
South is gonna leave; North is gonna fight to keep the South in the Union
If the South stays though, they are going to lose it all
1856