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The compromise that arose from the Calhoun Resolutions and Wilmot Proviso that would allow residents of a territory determine for themselves by vote to either allow or prohibit slavery.
Popular Sovereignty
What abolitionist wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
By 1850, Abraham Lincoln left politics so he could work in his profitable law firm. What brought him back out into politics?
The passing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged for murder and treason after being captured in Harpers Ferry. What did the majority of Northerners think of his raid?
The majority did not support his methods.
(fun fact: "Stonewall" Jackson and John Wilkes Booth watched John Brown get hanged.)
Republicans tried to calm Southerner's fears by pledging what in the election of 1860?
They will not interfere with slavery where it already exists.
What political party, prior to the Republican Party, would have allowed slavery to continue on where it already existed, but would prohibit its expansion out west?
Free-Soil Party
I am an Illinois Senator who wanted to build a railroad from his state of Illinois to California, but the unorganized territories west of Missouri was an issue since there would be nobody to maintain it. I wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act to accomplish my goals. Who am I?
Stephen Douglas
What propelled Abraham Lincoln into the national spotlight?
Lincoln-Douglas debates for Illinois senatorial race
Why did John Brown and his men raid the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry?
To steal weapons to start a slave rebellion in the Shenandoah Valley
What was the major issue in the election of 1860?
Slavery and its expansion.
This Act in 1850 would return run-away slaves back to their masters and allowed the U.S. Marshals to force citizens to enforce the law, even if they morally opposed slavery
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
What political party broke apart due to the vast differences between its Northern and Southern members?
(Hint: The Kansas-Nebraska Act was the deathblow, Northerners opposed it, Southerners supported it)
Whigs
Leaves a big political hole that the new Republican Party will fill.
Other than being generally considered to be a anti-slavery party, what other beliefs did the Republican Party have? Name two.
They were: pro-business, supported protective tariffs and internal improvements, and they appealed to small farmers by promising the distribution of inexpensive lands in the western territories.
What was the deciding factor of why the SC, MS, FL, AL, GA, LA, TX seceded?
Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860.
(They viewed him and the Republican Party as a threat to their way of life)
By February 1, 1861, the seven states who seceded from the Union formed the Confederate States of America. Who did they elect as their president?
Jefferson Davis
How did the South counter the popularity of the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
With propaganda and traveling Tom (minstrel) shows to make the hero of the book a pro-slave buffoon.
(A connotation that is still very prevalent today)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) organized the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and to settle the slavery question, popular sovereignty would be used. However the slavery portion would have been illegal because of what law that prohibited slavery north of the 30° 30' latitude?
Missouri Compromise (1820)
(Since this portion of the law was in the way, the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise)
The Confederacy believed that now is the time to attack fort Sumter because President Lincoln did what?
Sent a supply ship with food to resupply the fort
Fort Sumter was built to protect what important port city?
Charleston, SC.
This site was the first battle of the Civil War.
Why did West Virgina break off from Virgina to form their own state?
Western counties felt unheard by Virginia gov and also wanted to remain loyal to the Union
The Compromise of 1850 did what 5 things?
1) California to enter as a free state
2) The slave trade will be prohibited in D.C.
3) Slavery will continue in D.C.
4) New and improved run-away slave law
5) Organized NM and UT as territories with popular sovereignty
In their first Presidential election in 1856, the Republican Party chose who to run for office?
John C. Fremont (the explorer-soldier that helped liberate California).
*He lost to James Buchanan.
During Bleeding Kansas, three events occurred within a week of one another that significantly added fuel to the widening divide in America in 1856. They were:
1) Sack of Lawrence
2)Sumner-Brooks Canning
3) Pottawatomie Massacre
Explain what happened during these events.
Sack of Lawrence: This was a town in Kansas, mostly populated by anti-slavery Northerners, and it was sacked by pro-slavery border ruffians. No anit-slavery deaths, but the town was destroyed.
Sumner-Brooks Canning: Senator Charles Sumner (MA, anti-slavery) said unsavory things about Senator Andrew Butler (SC, pro-slavery). Butler's cousin, Representative Preston Brooks (SC, pro-slavery), beat Sumner with a cane in the Senate.
Pottawatomie Massacre: John Brown, a fanatical abolitionist, wanted revenge for Sumner being beaten and for Lawrence. He and his followers attacked pro-slavery family and killed 5 men.
After Fort Sumter and President Lincoln's call for volunteers to go to war with the Confederacy, four more states seceded to joined the Confederacy, which are they?
VA, AR, TN, and NC.
What two things did President Lincoln do to ensure Maryland stays in the Union despite their deep ties to the South and slavery?
Declared martial law and suspended habeas corpus