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The purpose of these debates were to announce the candidacies of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas for Illinois senators.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
The Fugitive Slave Act angered Harriet Beecher Stowe leading her to write this important anti-slavery novel.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This act made it illegal to hide runaway slave or even a person accused of being a slave to testify on their own behalf.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
In 1854 this party formed to be united against the spread of slavery in the West.
What is the Republican Party?
While Abraham Lincoln was 6 feet 4 inches, this opponent stood only about 5 feet.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
Regarding this event, Lincoln said, "That cannot excuse violence, bloodshed, and treason. It could avail him nothing that he might think himself right."
What is John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
He wrote a popular autobiography about his experience in the slave system, naming places and people, like his former master.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
John Brown was attempting to steal weapons and bring them to local slaves to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 in this famous raid.
What is John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry?
This Supreme Court case which ruled that Congress could not forbid slavery from federal territories.
What is the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?
Abraham Lincoln actually hated to be called this.
What is "Abe?"
What is the popular vote?
The fighting between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas led to this bloody name for the territory.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
In this two-territory act, the question of slavery was to be decided by popular sovereignty—by the people who vote in the elections there.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This odd looking justice was responsible for the Dred Scot rulings that declared free or enslaved blacks were not citizens.
Who is Roger B. Tawny?
During the 1860 election, a girl wrote to Abraham Lincoln saying that if he becomes president he should grow one of these.
What is a beard?
In his House Divided speech Lincoln declared that "A house divided against itself cannot stand..." meaning that THIS issue would eventually be resolved.
What is slavery?
In 1856 Kansas, he and his sons murdered pro-slavery settlers in Pottawatomie Creek in response to the attack on Lawrence by pro-slavery forces.
Who is John Brown?
The Kansas-Nebraska act allowed slavery into all territories of the Louisiana Purchase, making this older compromise pointless.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Leaders in this state believed that since each state joined the Union voluntarily, each state could leave the Union voluntarily.
What is South Carolina?
Emancipated in 1857, this former enslaved person died from tuberculosis on September 17, 1858.
Who is Dred Scott?
Lincoln won the 1860 election due to three other candidates running, two of whom split the Democratic Party into Northern and Southern Democrats. Identify these two from this list: John Bell, Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckenridge.
Who is Stephen Douglas- Northern Democrat, and John C. Breckenridge-Southern Democrat?
On December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union and form this new "America".
What is the Confederate States of America?
What is the order of the following events? A. South Carolina Secedes B. Missouri Compromise C. Raid on Harpers Ferry D. Lincoln is elected President E. John Brown is executed
What is: B. Missouri Compromise C. Raid on Harpers Ferry E. John Brown is executed D. Lincoln is elected President A. South Carolina Secedes
Standing at about 5 feet, 4 inches, he won the Senate seat in Illinois and accused that the Republicans desired every state to be a free state.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
This colonel ordered a squad of marines to storm the firehouse during John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry. He would later lead the Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?