Vocabulary
An act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This is how Northerner's opinion affected slaveholders.
What is the Northerners' refusal to support the act infuriated slaveholders. It also made enforcement of the act almost impossible?
This is what Chief Justice Roger Taney declared to the court.
What is that Taney declared that the Court had rejected Scott's argument that his stay in Wisconsin had made him a free man?
The year Republicans in Illinois nominated Abraham Lincoln to run for the Senate.
What is 1858?
This is the number of states that followed South Carolina’s lead.
What is 6 states?
A Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
What is The Dred Scott Decision?
This happened on May 21, 1856.
What is proslavery settlers and so-called “border ruffians” from Missouri invaded Lawrence, Kansas, the home of the antislavery government?
The vote when Taney declared that the Court had rejected Scott's argument that his stay in Wisconsin had made him a free man.
What is 7-2?
What Douglas argued about during the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
What is that Douglas argued that the Dred Scott Decision had put the slavery issue to rest?
This is the date that Charleston, South Carolina, delegates attending a state convention voted to leave the Union.
What is December 20, 1860?
A series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator, in which slavery was the main issue.
What is the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
This is what the Fugitive Slave Act said.
What is it said that any person who helped a slave escape, or even refused to aid slave catchers, could be jailed?
Taney's argument went something like this.
What is slaves are property. The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution says that property cannot be taken from people without due process of law—that is, a proper court hearing?
What Brown was convicted of.
What is Brown was convicted of treason and sentenced to die?
These were the people that were on Abraham Lincoln's side.
What is the Republicans?
To make sure or certain.
What is ensure?
This is what Henry Clay and Daniel Webster hoped for the Compromise of 1850.
What is they hoped they would quiet the slavery controversy for years to come. In fact, it satisfied almost no one—and the debate grew louder each year?
The Dred Scott Decision impacted slave owners in this way.
What is The Dred Scott Decision positively impacted slave owners?
The person wanted to use weapons to arm slaves for a rebellion that would end slavery.
What is Abolitionist John Brown?
This is the date that Abraham Lincoln became president of the not-so-United States.
This is what happened two days after the speech.
What is Senator Butler's nephew, South Carolina representative Preston Brooks, attacked Sumner in the Senate, beating him with his metal-tipped cane until it broke in half?
African Americans were allowed to become American citizens.
What is no?
This happened during the controversy about the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is antislavery activists formed a new political organization, the Republican Party?
This is the date and place that the Civil War began.
What is April 12, 1861 and Fort Sumter?