Stephen Douglas
Stephen Douglas ran for the Senate seat and the seat of Presidency against this man, who would defeat him in the election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This man, who was Abraham Lincoln's rival leading up to the Election of 1860, was from the same state as Abe, and a big proponent of popular sovereignty.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
This word means "to reach an agreement through giving something up in return." This word was in many of the laws of 1820 and 1850, in which the antislavery Northerners and proslavery Southerners had to give something up to reach an agreement.
What is a compromise?
The Raid at Lawrence, and the John Brown's massacre were reasons for people outside of this state calling it this gory nickname.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
This state became a slave state because of the Missouri Compromise and its southern border served as the line dividing slavery to the south and freedom to the north in the Louisiana Territory. This state "invaded" its neighbor territory, Kansas, and illegally voted at their polls in favor of slavery, and led to the many fights in Kansas.
What is Missouri?
Stephen Douglas was a part of this political party, created by Andrew Jackson, that eventually would split because of differences over slavery, and would set geographical lines.
What is the Democratic Party?
This party, comprised of Conscience Whigs, Free-Soilers, and some Abolitionists, was also Abraham Lincoln's party after he left the Whigs.
What is the Republican Party?
This act split the territory west of Missouri into two territories, and left the issue of slavery up to the territories' new state governments. The reason why this act was pushed, was because Stephen Douglas wanted a railroad to go from his home state of Illinois, out west.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This event was an attack on a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. The leader of the attack, famous for abolitionist ideals, was hung for his treasonous actions after the attack, creating shockwaves among Southerners and Northerners alike.
What is John Brown's raid?
This state, a focal point of division, was the center of many fights over slavery during its time trying to achieve statehood, which led to the creation of two governments, one proslavery and one anti-slavery. While Franklin Pierce would accept the illegitimate proslavery government as the states government, it would become a free state before the Civil War.
What is Kansas?
Stephen Douglas debated Abraham Lincoln for this state's Senate seat in 1858. Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln both represented this midwestern state.
What is Illinois?
This man was the presidential candidate who had the 2nd most votes behind Abraham Lincoln. While Abraham Lincoln focused on and got all of his votes from the North, this man focused on and got all of his votes from the South.
Who is John Breckinridge?
This law gave the Northerners a free state, and the Southerners a slave state, and set the 36°30′ line that extended to the western border of the Louisiana Purchase. The states that would be made north of this line were to be free from slavery, and south of this line would be permitted to have slavery.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This Supreme Court decision, often known as the worst decision made by the Supreme Court, determined that slaves were personal property, African-Americans could never be U.S. citizens, and all laws restricting slavery were unconstitutional.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This southern state was the first state to secede from the Union, and threatened to secede earlier in the 1830s over tariffs they did not agree with.
What is South Carolina?
Stephen Douglas was a proponent of, and creator of, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, for this reason, which would connect Chicago, IL to San Francisco, CA.
What is a railroad?
This word translates to "stopping, or ending a practice, system, or institution", and was the goal of John Brown and his gang.
What is abolition (of slavery)?
In this law, the antislavery Northerners received California, and the proslavery Southerners received the harsher enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This word means "disloyalty to one's nation" and the punishment for this action is typically the death penalty.
What is treason?
This free state on the west coast joined the Union early in 1859, and is often thought of along with its famous route which hundreds of thousands of people took to reach the West.
What is Oregon?
Stephen Douglas threatened this president to push the Kansas-Nebraska Act through. Who was this 14th president of the United States who faced multiple tragedies after winning his election in 1852.
Who is Franklin Pierce?
This man was the 3rd place candidate in the running of the Election of 1860, and focused his campaign on the border states, preaching unity along with his new political party: the Constitutional Union Party. The border states are where he would get all of his votes, including from his home state of Tennessee.
Who is John Bell?
This idea was the belief in letting the territories vote on the issue of slavery for themselves, and while it was well intentioned, lead to violence within Kansas.
What is popular sovereignty?
This was one of Abraham Lincoln's most famous speeches where he uses a quote from the Bible, and talks about the division that slavery has created within the U.S. and where he sees the U.S. going forward.
What is the "House Divided" speech?
This slave state would not secede and thank goodness for that. If this state would have seceded from the Union, Washington D.C. would have been surrounded by Virginia in the South and West and this state from the North and East.
What is Maryland?