Election of 1860 & the Road to Disunion
What made the new Fugitive Slave Law abhorrent to some people and terrifying to others?
-Everyone was required to bring slaves in -If someone said you were a slave you were considered a slave
How many votes did Lincoln receive in the nine states of the deep South?
0
When did Kansas become a state?
1861
How many states have seceded by March 1861?
7
When did the Civil War begin?
April 12, 1861
What did Dred Scott go to court for?
Because he moved to Illinois and because Illinois was a free state he technically wasn't a slave
Why did Congress delay letting Kansas join the U.S.?
Because the man overseeing the voting of the Pro Slavery of Lecompton Constitution called it a fraud
Where did many African Americans go to escape from the new Fugitive Slave Law?
Canada
What did Lincoln repeatedly say about slavery?
He would leave slavery alone in the slave states
Who won the presidential election of 1856?
James Buchanan
Who tried to raid the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry in order to get guns he could give to slaves so they could violently rebel?
John Brown
Where was there so much violence in 1857 that some people say the Civil War started there at that time?
Kansas
When did Lincoln take office?
March 1861
What political principal said that the people living in a region should get to decide whether or not slavery would be permitted there?
Popular sovereignty
What made land-based shipping and travel easier in the decades before the Civil War?
Railroads
What single issue best explains why the United States fought the Civil War?
Slavery
Who won at Fort Sumter?
South
What shocking things did the Dred Scott decision state?
That African Americans were inferior to whites and that they must be slaves for their benefit
What earlier compromise did the Kansas-Nebraska Act cancel?
The Missouri Compromise
What new political party emerged with a mission of stopping the spread of slavery?
The Republicans
Before the Compromise of 1850, where was there already a fugitive slave law?
The US Constitution
What did northern Republicans believe the Dred Scott decision meant?
They felt that the decision meant there was no such thing as a free state since a slave could move to a free state and still be a slave
Where was the first battle of the Civil War?
Union Garrison at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
What made the Civil War inevitable?
White Americans' inability to see that blacks had the same rights as them
How did Lincoln become famous even before he ran for president?
With debates with Stephen Douglas when they ran for senate