The Election of 1852
What party appeared to be "in trouble" during the election?
What is the Whigs
What year was the bill passed?
What is 1854
Why did the Whig Party completely fall apart?
What is increasing tensions over slavery
True or false: Lincoln was an abolitionist?
What is false
Who did the Whigs nominate for the election?
Who is General Winfield Scott
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act resolve?
What is the question of slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska territories
Who was the Republican Party composed of?
Who are Free-Soilers, antislavery Whigs, and Democrats
What type of issue did Lincoln say that slavery was?
What is a moral issue
Who did the Democrats nominate for the election?
Who is Franklin Pierce
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act lead to?
What is "Bleeding Kansas"
What was the Republican Party's purpose?
What is to oppose the spread of slavery in the territories (not to end slavery itself)
What doctrine was formed during these series of debates?
What is the Freeport Doctrine
Who won the election?
Who is Franklin Pierce
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act give Southerners?
What is the opportunity to expand slavery into lands that had been closed by the Missouri Compromise
Who did the Republican Party benefit?
Who are the Northerners
Who won this campaign?
Who is Stephen Douglas