Their platform in the election of 1860 called for popular sovereignty to decide on slavery in territories.
What is the Democratic Party's?
200
A series of Congressional laws intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
____________________ created a plan to settle the issue of statehood for California that satisfied both Northerners and Southerners.
Who is Henry Clay?
300
The impact of ____________________ was that white Southerners charged that the book did not portray slavery accurately.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
By winning in all but one of the slave states, Democrat ____________________ was elected president in 1856.
Who was James Buchanan?
300
The Northern Democrats nominated Stephen A. Douglas to be president in ____________________.
What is 1860?
300
An 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom because he had been taken to live in territories where slavery was illegal; the Court ruled against Scott.
What is Dred Scott V. Sanford?
400
____________________ supported the Compromise of 1850 in order to keep the nation from breaking apart.
Who is Daniel Webster?
400
Adding to the slave controversy, ____________________ murdered several proslavery settlers in Kansas.
Who was John Brown?
400
His lawsuit to gain freedom was denied in a landmark Supreme Court decision.
Who was Dred Scott?
400
He opposed the expansion of slavery into the Western territories.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
400
A novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral?
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
500
____________________ had the job of winning approval in Congress for the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
500
A system where the residents vote to decide an issue.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
____________________, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court deepened the divisions between North and South with his ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford.