Political Ideas
This plan proposed to divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska, where the people could decide on the question of slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This Congressman supported a railroad to the West originating in Chicago. He later debated and ran against Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
Favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country.
What is sectionalism?
This book by Stowe was written to educate the people about the realities of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This territory was called "Bleeding" because of the violence that erupted due to the debate on slavery.
What is Kansas?
This made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest slaves in free areas.
What is the fugitive slave act?
In the election of 1856, this man won the election against Republican John C. Fremont by winning 14 of the 15 slave states.
Who is James Buchanan?
To formally withdraw.
What is secede?
Lyman Beecher, Harriet's father, made his living as one of these from Connecticut.
What is a pastor/minister?
John Brown was sentenced to death by this method.
What is hanging?
Henry Clay of Kentucky proposed this, with 5 main points that were designed to help the nation maintain peace by giving both sides some things that they wanted.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
He was a lawyer from Illinois who eventually became a senator and President of the United States. Little do you know, that he was once postmaster general and had the least-efficient post office in his territory in Illinois.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The idea that political power belonged to the people, who should decide on banning or allowing slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
When she turned 21, Stowe moved to this state where she met fugitive slaves and learned of the cruelties of slavery.
What is Ohio?
You can find Harper's Ferry in the state.
What is Virginia?
This document stated that "neither slave nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territory (Mexican Cession)."
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
In 1854, this fugitive slave was arrested in Boston. Abolitionists attempted to spring him from jail, killing a deputy marshal in the process.
Who is Anthony Burns?
This event is when members of a political party meet and officially chooses their nominee for president of the United States.
What is a convention?
Reactions to the first book prompted Stowe to write an answer to the criticisms, a book titled this.
This document is made up of the Bill of Rights and Amendments that make up the laws of the United States.
What is the Constitution?
The notion that the police would enforce the voters' decisions if it contradicted the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case became known as this.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
This man reluctantly became president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
In order to win an election, a candidate must have the majority of these kind of votes, not popular ones.
What is electoral?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This book of the Bible is devoted entirely to the return of Onesimus the slave.
What is Philemon?