Slavery
The best seller of fiction that showed slavery in a harsh light.
What is Uncle Tom’ Cabin? P.284
President that was elected without a single Southern electoral vote.
Who was Abraham Lincoln (timeline)
Douglass had raised the central fact that slavery was not a cultural or institution, but that it was a ______ relationship.
What is power? P.303
A third party, the free-soil party slogan.
What is Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men? P.280
The law that came to pass during the Compromise of 1850.
What was the Fugitive Slave Law. P.282
A second party originally named the Anti-Nebraska Party, is now called_________.
What is the Republican party? *p.291
The act that revoked the Missouri Comprise line and replacing its restriction of slavery with popular sovereignty.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? P.287
A strip of land in northwest Mexico that would be used as a railroad route that would benefit the cotton South. (along modern day arizona ~45,000miles)
What was the Gadsden Purchase? p.285
Person in history that said “I am not a member of the Christian Church… but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures.”
Who is Abraham Lincoln? P.301
The way slavery viewed humans as___.
What is property? p.271
The year Abraham Lincoln was elected.
what is 1860
Definition of popular sovereignty.
Popular sovereignty is government based on consent of the people. The government’s source of authority is the people, and its power is not legitimate if it disregards the will of the people.~p.298
Debates over reopening the slave trade intensified after this case, where the investigation involved a 114 ft. vessel launched in 1857 from Charleston to Africa where the captain purchased 600 slaves and on the voyage back only about 300 made it back.
What is the Wanderer? p.307
The event that triggered the Panic of 1857.
The supreme court’s ruling on the Dred Scott case and the economic crisis. (P.295)
The year that James Buchanan was elected.
What is 1856? *p.265 (front of book timeline)