History chapter 12 3-5

How did popular sovereignty lead to violence in Kansas?

Popular Sovereignty lead to violence because of the poll that was taken to discuss ending slavery in Kansas.

John Crittenden

Proposed a series of amendments to the constitution

states' rights

Rights that are made for the states

Who served as the president of the Confederate States of America?

Robert E. Lee

Roger B. Taney

Said that Dred Scott was property not a person

Review the map on page 558. What role did sectionalism play in Lincoln's victory in the 1860 election?

Sectionalism played a role in Lincoln's victory in the 1860 election because he hinted that he wanted to abolish slavery and most states part of the union and others were free slavery states. Which him gained a popular vote.

border states

States located between the north and south

What was Stephen Douglas' solution to the slavery issue in the Kansas and Nebraska territories?

Stephen Douglas solution to the slavery issue was to exclude slavery by refusing to pass the laws of slaveholder's rights.

How many cast votes in the Kansas elections? How did that compare with the population at the time?

6,000 people cast votes but there was only a 1,500 population count

popular sovereignty

The idea of public rule

Dred Scott

Told that he was still property

Preston Brooks

Walked into the senate chamber and hit summer over and over again. Until he was bleeding.

secession

Withdrawal from the union

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Wrote the popular boom Uncle Tom's Cabin. Fueled the anti-slavery movement

civil war

A conflict between citizens of the same country

Fort Sumter

A fort near the seceding states

Who financed John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry?

A group of abolitionists funded john browns raid on the Harpers Ferry

Jefferson Davis

A senator from Mississippi who was elected for presidency by the confederacy

arsenal

A storage place for weapons and ammunition

John Brown

Believed that god had chosen him to end slavery

Who were the border ruffians?

Border Ruffians were Missourians who traveled in large groups for the Kansas vote on slavery.

Charles Sumner

Delivered a speech called " the crime against Kansas"

martyr

Dies for a cause he believes in

James Buchanan

Formed the republican party

How did the Dred Scott decision reverse a previous decision made by Congress?

His decision reversed the prevision decision made congress because he states that slaves were property.

What was Senator John Crittenden's last-minute proposal to save the Union?

His last minute proposal was to do the 36' 30' line

Why did Lincoln emerge as a leader after the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

Lincoln emerged as a leader after the Lincoln-Douglass debates because he discussed slavery. Unlike Douglass who made a mistake and lost his popular vote in the south

Describe the positions taken by Lincoln and Douglas in their debates.

Lincoln's positions that slaves should be equal to men whereas Douglass believe they should not

border ruffians

Missourians that traveled in big groups for the Kansas election

Why were there four parties and candidates in the presidential election of 1860?

Abraham Lincoln from the republicans Stephen Douglass form the democrats John Bell form the constitutional union John C. Breckenridge from the southern democrats

Abraham Lincoln

America's president, debated with Douglass, became a great part of politics.

What was the Dred Scott decision? What did it mean for those opposed to slavery?

Dred scott decision was that all slaves were property and meant to the people that opposed slavery that they must send the slaves away. For example to Canada or Liberia.

John C. Fremont

Explorer, chosen by California to be there candidate president

Discuss the stages in the development of the Republican Party.

The stages of development for the Republican Party was when they joined the free-spoilers to become the republican party

Fill in the events leading up to the surrender of Fort Sumter and the start of the Civil War.

The surrender of fort Sumter started when a few states seceded than war (civil war) which they lost and then fort summer was surrendered

List the steps that led to bloodshed in Kansas.

The vote for slavery in Kansas, the civil war, Preston attacking summer

How did abolitionists and African Americans resist the Fugitive Slave Act?

They created and used the underground railroad.