What effect did John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry have on the South?
it indicated that abolitionists would use violence to overthrow slavery
During their senatorial campaign debates, Stephen A. Douglas depicted Abraham Lincoln as
an abolitionist who loved blacks
What did the Wilmot Proviso of 1846 propose?
Slavery would be prohibited throughout the entire area ceded by Mexico
Who supported the Wilmot Proviso?
Anti-slavery northerners
Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan proposed the doctrine of popular sovereignty, a measure
that would allow
people who settled the territories to decide whether or not they wanted slavery
How did the Mexican-American War affect American politics?
It divided the nation based on the issue of slavery in the territories
What did the Whigs do in an attempt to reunite their party during the presidential campaign of 1848?
Remain silent on the issue of slavery
When Zachary Taylor became president in 1849, he enraged Southerners
by championing a free-soil solution to slavery by urging Congress to admit California and New Mexico to the union as free states
What happened when Democrats met to choose a presidential candidate in Charleston,
South Carolina?
The party divided into southern and northern factions
Which issue in the debate of 1849-1850 led to the Compromise of 1850?
The balance of power between the North and the South in Congress
Which Senator argued that, when it came to ending slavery, there was "a higher law than
the Constitution"�the law of God?
William Seward
Per the Compromise of 1850, which state entered the union as a free state?
California
What was a requirement of the Fugitive Slave Act, part of the Compromise of 1850?
All citizens were expected to assist officials in apprehending runaway slaves
What happened to most fugitive slaves once they were captured after the Fugitive Slave Act was enacted?
They were peacefully returned to their masters
What did the federal government do to the Plains Indians who lived in what became Nebraska?
The federal government pushed them farther west
Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) influence northerners' attitudes toward slavery?
The novel put forth a stirring moral indictment of slavery
Whigs lose the Election of 1852 because
they are divided over slavery
Why did the Democrats remain a national organization after 1854?
Gains in the South offset losses in the North
In 1853, the United States negotiated the Gadsden Purchase
support the dream of a southern route for the transcontinental railroad
The American Party, or Know-Nothings, appeared in the mid-1850s as
a reaction to large numbers of Roman Catholics coming to the United States
In 1854, Stephen A. Douglas sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act and included a section repealing the Missouri Compromise because
he needed southern support to pass his legislation, the price of which was opening up the Nebraska territory to the possibility of slavery
Northern women supported the Republican Party by
marching in Republican parades
The presidential election of 1856 revealed the
strength of the new Republican Party
What was the result of Preston Brooks's caning of Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner in 1856?
It further inflamed sectional passions over the institution of slavery
What did the Supreme Court rule in its 1857 Dred Scott decision?
Dred Scott was not a citizen of the United States
What did Abraham Lincoln personally believe about slavery?
Slavery was morally wrong
The common thread that wove together northern men into the Republican Party in 1854 was
opposition to the extension of slavery into any territory of the United States
How did Stephen A. Douglas respond in 1857 when proslavery forces in Lecompton, Kansas, drafted a constitution that many felt was fraudulent?
Douglas came out against the proslavery constitution
What did Douglas argue in what became known as the Freeport Doctrine?
Settlers could ban slavery by not passing the laws necessary to protect slave
property
What led to the demise of the Know-Nothing party in the mid-1850s?
Nathaniel Banks left the party with 2/3 of its members
What happened to John Brown after his raid on Harper's Ferry?
He was executed
Whom did the Democratic party nominate in the presidential election of 1856?
James Buchanan
How did the increasingly confident Republican Party prepare for the election of 1860?
It expanded its platform to address other issues
What made Abraham Lincoln an attractive candidate for the Republican nomination?
He represented the crucial state of Illinois
Early in the struggle to win Kansas, proslavery supporters
from out of state invaded Kansas, to control the election through fraud and intimidation
Southerners felt so much hostility toward the Republican Party during the presidential election of 1860 that
ten states refused to allow Lincoln's name to appear on the ballot
When the first territorial legislature in Kansas met,
enacted tough proslavery laws and prompted the organization of a rival government
Which Southerner argued that "I consider slavery much more secure in the Union than out of it?
Alexander Stephens
Which was the first state to secede from the union after Lincoln's election?
South Carolina
How did James Buchanan respond as the secession crisis loomed over the final weeks of his presidential administration?
Buchanan remained in Washington and did nothing
The Dred Scott decision increased sectional tension by
giving credence to the belief in the North that a Slave Power conspiracy existed and was laboring to subvert northern liberties
In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln was
reassuring and conciliatory toward the South on the issue of slavery but firm and inflexible concerning the perpetuity of the Union
In the mid-1850s, Abraham Lincoln's search for a political home was based on his
opposition to the extension of slavery in the United States
Why did the slave states of the upper south initially reject secession?
The upper south did not have as great a stake in slavery as the states in the lower south
Who became the president of the new Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
Who, according to Lincoln, had the responsibility of stopping the spread of slavery?
The Southern lady
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president because he had
strong support in the free states despite winning only 39 percent of the national popular vote
As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates,
Stephen A. Douglas won a senate seat, but Abraham Lincoln became nationally known