Attempts to Resolve Conflict
Violence that erupted because of the Kansas Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
The North and South failed to compromise over this issue
Slavery
What was the platform of the Republican Party? (What did they stand for?)
Stopping slavery from spreading into the new territories.
Political party Lincoln ran for
Republican Party
What does "secession" mean?
What former Act did the Kansas-Nebraska act repeal/overrule/make null and void?
The Missouri Compromise
What is the foundation of democracy?
Compromise
The 2 parties that made up the Second Party System
Democrats and Whigs
Month and year of Lincoln's election
November, 1860
First state that seceded from the Union
South Carolina
What was the Dred Scott Decision?
Stated that African Americans were not citizens and had no rights
Effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Angered Northern abolitionists, caused sectional tensions, led to "Bloody Kansas"
(any one of these answers will do)
The Whig party collapsed due to divisions over which issue?
Slavery
Which region DID NOT vote for Lincoln?
(aka his name was not even on their ballot?)
Southern states
Name of the new country formed by the states that seceded from the Union
The Confederate States of America
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether to allow slavery through popular sovereignty, effectively repealing the Missouri Compromise.
Effects of the Dred Scott Decision
Angered abolitionists, caused sectional tensions, led to the solidification of the Republican Party
What are the 2 issues that weakened the Second Party System?
1. Slavery
2. Immigration
Which regions DID vote for Lincoln?
Northern and Western states
Name the 3 elements of the Missouri Compromise
1. No Slavery over the 36'30 line
2. Except for Missouri as a slave state
3. And Maine as a free state to balance that out
This solidified the Republican Party's platform
The Dred Scott Decision/Kansas-Nebraska Act
The 3 political parties the Republican Party unified
1. Northern abolitionists
2. Free-Soilers
3. Anti-slavery Democrats
Effect of Lincoln's election
Secession / Civil War (either answer is legitimate)
1. What was the name of the first battle of the Civil War?
2. What month and year did this take place?
1. Fort Sumter
2. April, 1861