Compromise of 1850
This veteran Senator created the Compromise of 1850 as one of his last acts before his death.
Who is Henry Clay?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act fractured the Whig Party, causing Northern Whigs to found this new political party for this reason.
What is the Republican Party in order to restrict and eliminate slavery?
The Dred Scott Decision reinforced this political and legal doctrine, which allowed territories to decide the status of slavery, increasing sectional tensions.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This radical abolitionist led the 1859 raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in an attempt to incite a slave rebellion.
Who is John Brown?
This was the immediate political consequence of Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860.
What is several Southern states seceded from the Union, starting with South Carolina?
The Compromise added this state to the Union as a free state and used this doctrine to determine slavery in the rest of the Mexican Cession.
What is California and Popular Sovereignty?
This Illinois senator proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
The Dred Scott Decision declared that these things did not apply to African Americans.
What are citizenship and the Constitution?
In the 1858 Illinois Senate election, these two candidates toured the state holding this kind of event.
Who are Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas holding debates?
The Election of 1860 saw four candidates competing. These two parties were the most popular in the South.
What are the Southern Democrats (Breckinridge), and the Constitutional Union (Bell)?
While the Compromise of 1850 granted Utah and New Mexico the right to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty, slavery ultimately failed to take root in these areas for this reason.
What is they are deserts unsuitable for a plantation economy?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed this earlier legislative compromise, reigniting sectional tensions by allowing this to determine the status of slavery in new territories.
What are the Missouri Compromise and Popular Sovereignty?
Dred Scott argued that this action made him a free man.
What is he traveled to a free state (Illinois)?
Lincoln lost the election to Douglas, but gained this from the debates.
What is popularity in the North, which allowed him to become the Republican presidential candidate in 1860?
The Election of 1860 saw the Democrat Party split over the slavery issue. These were the positions of the two sides.
What is the Northern Democrats preferred Popular Sovereignty, while the Southern Democrats wanted to expand slavery to the territories?
The Compromise of 1850 included this controversial law which required this.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act, which required Northern states to return escaped slaves to the South?
"Bleeding Kansas" became a symbol of the failure of popular sovereignty. Explain how the events in Kansas demonstrated the limitations of this doctrine.
What is the influx of pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers led to violent conflicts and an inability to peacefully determine slavery’s status?
In his ruling, Chief Justice Taney argued that Congress lacked the authority to regulate slavery in U.S. territories. Explain how this reasoning contradicted earlier congressional actions regarding slavery.
What is the Missouri Compromise, because that compromise regulated slavery north of the Missouri line?
In one of his debates with Douglas, Lincoln contradicted the Dred Scott decision by saying this.
What is that slavery needed to be contained to the South and banned in all territories?
The Constitutional Union Party was mostly successful in the Upper South (Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee) for this reason.
What is the more moderate politics of those states due to less reliance on slavery?
The Compromise of 1850 is often seen by historians as a temporary solution to sectional tensions rather than a lasting one. Explain how its provisions angered both the North and the South.
What is the admission of California as a free state, unbalancing the Senate, angered the South, and the Fugitive Slave Law angered the North?
Explain how "Bleeding Kansas" contributed to the road to the Civil War.
What is it demonstrated that slavery could not be decided peacefully by popular sovereignty, and could only be decided by open conflict?
Some historians argue that the Dred Scott Decision made the Civil War inevitable. Analyze this claim by explaining how the ruling affected Northern attitudes.
What is it enraged the North and made many see peaceful discussion as impossible because it closed the legal avenues for compromise?
Explain how Abolitionist and Southern reactions to John Brown's raid and death widened sectional divisions.
What is abolitionists saw Brown as a martyr for the cause, treating him as a hero, while Southerners saw Brown as a terrorist and proof that the North wanted to overthrow slavery by force?
Abraham Lincoln won the election without his name appearing on many Southern ballots. Explain how this would contribute to Southern states seceding.
What is the Southern states realized that the Northern states had far more political power than them, meaning that Southern interests would become secondary to Northern interests?