What was the main goal of the Republican Party
To stop the spread of slavery
This state's application for statehood in 1850 led to the Compromise of 1850...
California
The Kansas/Nebraska Act said what about states and slavery?
That each state could vote on wether or not to allow slavery.
What part of the country developed large factories and a growing population who believed that slavery was wrong.
North
What 2 things about slaves were decided by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case?
2. Slaves are Property
Who did the Republican party elect as their candidate for the 1860 Presidential Election?
Abraham Lincoln
What did the North like about the Compromise of 1850?
That California would enter the Union as a free state
What violent event in Kansas did the Kansas/Nebraska Act lead to?
"Bleeding Kansas"
What part of the country was primarily agricultural with slave labor and shipped their cotton to Northern factories?
South
Where was the 1st battle of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
The Republican Party was formed after what event in US History?
Bleeding Kansas
What did the South Like about the Compromise of 1850?
What earlier Compromise did the Kansas/Nebraska Act overturn or do away with?
The Missouri Compromise...that said slavery could not be north of the 36-30 line.
What 2 reasons allowed the south to have a big, profitable agricultural economy?
Fertile land and slave labor
What did 7 Southern States do when Abraham Lincoln was elected President?
Seceded from the Union
What were the 2 parts to President Lincoln's inaugural address?
1. Being part of the Union was perpetual (forever)
2. He did not plan on outlawing Slavery where it already existed.
Henry Clay
Revolts against slavery happened as a result of the violence of "Bleeding Kansas" and the Kansas/Nebraska Act. Name 2 leaders of such revolts
(1 was a slave and 1 was a white abolitionist)
Nat Turner and John Brown
Abolitionists and the Abolition movement grew rapidly in the 1850s in what region of the U.S.?
North
What did the States that seceded call their "new" country?
Confederate States of America
What number was President Lincoln? exa.. 1st, 4th, 23rd, etc...
16th
How did the Compromise of 1850 affect free blacks living in the North?
They could be captured by slave hunters and taken to the South into slavery.
What Senator convinced Congress to pass the Kansas/Nebraska Act?
Stephen Douglas
In what region of the U.S. did many people believe in State's Rights over the Rights of the Federal Government?
South
Who did the Confederate States elect as their President?
Jefferson Davis