Quotable Quotes
"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so..."
Who is Abraham Lincoln in his 1st Inaugural Address (responding to secession)?
An escaped enslaved person
Freedom-seeker
Politician who ran for president in 1860 that was likable to people in the North and West but not the South
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Replaced the 36 30 line with popular sovereignty in two territories from the Louisiana Purchase
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Northern workers and industrialists as well as Western Farmers would have voted for this man due to his support of high tariffs and support of transportation in the West.
Abraham Lincoln
"The doctrine of self-government is right, - absolutely and eternally right, - but it has no just application as here attempted... When the white man governs himself, that is self government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government- that is despotism."
Who is Abraham Lincoln rejecting popular sovereignty (Kansas-Nebraska Act)?
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Enslaved man, husband, and father that sued for his freedom who's court case increased tensions between north and south
Who is Dred Scott?
Attempted to maintain the balance of power and avoid future conflict over slavery in the Louisiana Purchase.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Name of the presidential candidate who earned the most Southern electoral votes
Who is John Breckenridge?
"A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper."
Who is Thomas Jefferson on the Missouri Compromise?
This compromise admitted California as a free state, left New Mexico and Utah undecided, prohibited slave trade in the capital, and put into action the Fugitive Slave Act.
Abolitionist who attacked Harpers Ferry and felt that the only way to stop slavery was through violence
Who is John Brown?
Attempted to attract southern votes by opening up territory above the 36 30 line to the possibility of slavery with popular sovereignty
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Dred Scott was NOT a fugitive from slavery. What legal basis did he use to sue for his freedom?
What is he had lived in free states and territories (brought there by his enslaver)?
"We took the principles established by the compromise act of 1850 as our guide... Those measures established and rest upon the great principle of self-government"
Who is Stephen Douglas using the Comp of 1850 to justify popular sovereignty in the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The 36 30 line only applied to the issue of slavery here.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
Politician from Illinois that campaigned for the Kansas-Nebraska act and supported popular sovereignty in the western territories
Who is Stephen Douglas?
The first law that Congress passed to contain a restriction of slavery in the territories.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
"It would be strange, if we were to find in that instrument anything which deprived of their citizenship any part of the people of the United States who were among those by whom it (the Constitution) was established."
Who is Justice Benjamin Curtis in his dissent (opposing viewpoint) on the Dred Scott Decision?
Print culture
Chief Justice on Dred Scott v. Stanford who is the author of the worst Supreme Court decision in the nation's history
Who is Roger Taney?
This invalidated all attempts by Congress to restrict slavery in the territories
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
Daily Double! These two events were at the root of the 'abolitionist century' and helped launch a formal movement to end slavery in the United States
What are the British Abolition Movement and the Haitian Revolution?