History According to Lincoln
This legislation banned slavery in about half of the territory of the Louisiana Purchase.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This event most directly led South Carolina to secede.
What is the Election of 1860?
"This declared indifference, but as I must think, covert real zeal for the spread of slavery, I can not but hate."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This man was U.S. Senator for Senator for Illinois.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
This doctrine claimed no absolute right or wrong for slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
This was the source of Lincoln's antislavery thought.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What is the Rio Grande?
"A free negro of the African race, whose ancestors were brought to this country and sold as slaves, is not a 'citizen' within the meaning of the Constitution of the United States."
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford or Who is Roger Taney?
To northerners, this man was a martyr for freedom. To southerners, he was a midnight terrorist.
Who is John Brown?
This doctrine aimed to restrict extension of slavery in the territories.
What is free soil?
Lincoln's hero Henry Clay founded the ACS, a group advocating this policy of emancipating slaves and settling them in Africa.
What is Colonization?
This legislation opened Louisiana Territory, previously closed, to slavery.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Marylander authored the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sanford.
Who is Roger Taney?
This man's "Proviso" aimed to ban slavery in the Mexican Cession.
Who is David Wilmot?
In 1808, as early as it could have, Congress outlawed this practice related to slavery.
What is the slave trade?
This set off a crisis in the Congress leading to the Compromise of 1850.
What is the application of California to be a free state?
"I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice."
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
The first day of this man's newspaper is considered the beginning of the Abolition movement.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This Virginian led the party of U.S. Marines that restored federal control of Harper's Ferry.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This legislation banned slavery in the upper midwest.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
President Lincoln called this novelist, "The little woman who wrote the book that started this great war."
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
He said before losing his seat: "I wish to speak to-day, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American."
Who is Daniel Webster?
Before he was commander in chief of Lincoln's Army, this general led American troops into Mexico City.
Who was Winfield Scott?
John C. Calhoun led an intellectual movement claiming that this Amendment to the Constitution provided total protection for slave property.
What is the Fifth Amendment?