Understanding Ideas 1
The Democratic Party was not a strong force in the election of 1860 because
Many members of the Democratic Party decided to vote for a Republican candidate.
On the night of May 24, 1856, five pro-slavery men were killed in Kansas in an event called
the Pottawatomie Massacre
After the election of 1860, many southern states seceded from the Union to form the
Confederate States of America
Mississippi native who was elected president of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
political group formed by antislavery Northerners who supported the Wilmot Proviso
Free-Soil Party
What was the position of South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun in the debate for the Compromise of 1850?
Slave states should separate peacefully from the Union.
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney argued in 1857 that Congress could not prohibit someone from taking slaves into a federal territory because
.slaves were property defended by law
settled most of the disputes between slave and free states over the issue of admitting California to the Union.
Compromise of 1850
law that made it a crime to assist runaway slaves
Fugitive Slave Act
document that would have prohibited slavery in any part of the Mexican Cession
Wilmot Proviso
To influence the debate over slavery, Harriet Beecher Stowe's book focused on what issue
. exposed the harsh reality of slave life.
What was Abraham Lincoln’s opinion of John Brown’s raid in Virginia?
The antislavery movement should not be one of violence and bloodshed
a slave who sued for freedom in federal court after living in free territory in Illinois
Dred Scott
abolitionists’ violent response to the Sack of Lawrence in Kansas
Pottawatomie Massacre
idea that police would enforce the voters’ decision if it contradicted the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case
Freeport Doctrine
The purpose of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was for Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas to
promote their candidacies for the U.S. Senate.
Democrats nominated James Buchanan to run in the 1856 presidential election because he was
absent from the debate over the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
proposed to divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories where the question of slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Democratic candidate in the election of 1852 who promised to honor the Compromise of 1850
Franklin Pierce
U.S. senator from Illinois who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas
The case of Anthony Burns was significant because it
persuaded many to join the abolitionist cause
Who won the 1858 senatorial race in Illinois?
Stephen Douglas
a political Party, which united against the spread of slavery in the West
Free-Soil
rebellion staged by a group of abolitionists at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
John Brown’s raid
act of formally withdrawing from the Union
secession