Henry Clay
The nickname given to Henry Clay.
What is the Great Compromiser?
The state wanting to enter the union that led to the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
A principle that states that the people of a territory have the right to decide their own laws.
What is popular sovereignty?
The reason John Brown raids Harper's Ferry.
What is to give weapons to slaves so they can fight for their freedom?
The political office Lincoln and Douglass were seeking when they had these debates in 1858.
What is the Senate?
Henry Clay negotiated this in 1820 to deal with the situation of admitting new states into the union, and it used a line to determine whether a state would enter as free or slave.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The problem caused by California wanting to enter as the 31st state. (give one problem)
What is a disruption in the balance of free and slave states, and the Missouri Compromise line splits the state? (It is also outside of the LA Purchase area.)
The main reason the Republican Party is formed.
What is to stop the spread of slavery?
The results of John Brown's raid...be specific!
What are he gets the weapons, is surrounded by the army, caught and arrested, and then hung?
The political parties of each candidate.
What are Lincoln=Republican and Douglas-Democrat?
These two deals/plans had to do with keeping the American Economy strong...one is the plan and one is the name of the crisis that follows it.
What are the American System and the Nullification Crisis?
Stricter penalties for runaway slaves, denial of rights, and loss of safety for slaves and non-slaves in free states are a result of this.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
The law of the Kansas-Nebraska Act specifically stated this.
What is the states entering the union would decide if they are free or slave through popular sovereignty?
The situation that Dred Scott argued should allow him to be free.
What is that he had been taken to free states and therefore deserved to be free? He had been free while he was in those states and should therefore remain free.
Douglas's argument in the debate
What is that states should be able to decide if they are free or not (popular sovereignty)?
Name the main parts of the Missouri Compromise.
What are Maine=Free, Missouri=Slave, above the 36, 30 line = Free, below the 36, 30 line = Slave
Name the terms of the Compromise of 1850.
What are CA added as free state, Mexican Cession determined by popular sovereignty, slave trade banned in Washington DC, and the much stronger Fugitive Slave Act?
This leads to what is known as Bleeding Kansas, and this is why it is called Bleeding Kansas. (2 part answer)
What are abolitionists from the north and pro-slavery settlers from the south rushing to Kansas to influence the vote to be free or slave and violence erupting killing many people?
The two decisions reached by the Supreme Court in this case.
What are the Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional and African Americans are not citizens?
Lincoln's argument in the debate
What is that slavery should not spread, but the country must have the same policies regarding it? (all the same)
Henry Clay brokered this deal to influence the results of the 1824 election, and it's one of the deals that led to his nickname, "The great Compromiser."
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
The main reason Uncle Tom's Cabin was important to American history and the name of the person who wrote it.
What are Harriet Beecher and the fact that many people read it, and it made people turn against slavery?
Name the main events of the Sumner-Brooks Incident. (who, where, why)
Who are Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks?
Where is on the Senate Floor in Congress?
Why is anger over a speech Sumner had given in protest of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The impact this case has on African-Americans (both slave and free African Americans).
What is that they have no rights or due process in America's courts and therefore slavery is everywhere?
The winner, the loser, and why it is important.
Who are Stephen Douglas (W) and Lincoln loses? What is the fact that it puts Lincoln on the map politically, helps him gain attention, and ultimately he wins the presidency?