apush ch.19

In the Dred Scott decision,

(1) the Supreme Court ruled that because Scott was a slave, and not a citizen, he had no right to sue for his freedom in federal court. (2) a majority of the Court decreed that because a slave was private property, he or she could be taken into any territory and legally held there in slavery. (3) the Court ruled that the Compromise of 1820 had been unconstitutional all along: Congress had no power to ban slavery from the territories, regardless even of what the territorial legislatures themselves might want. (4) the case could have been thrown out on technical grounds alone.

Despite Abraham Lincoln's impressive and persuasive seven performances in the Lincoln-Douglas Senate debates in 1858,

Senator Stephen Douglas defeated Lincoln.

Lincoln stated that he believed that the black race was

a. inferior but entitled to the same natural rights as white people.

The reaction of most Northerners to John Brown was to

condemn the raid on Harper's Ferry but mourn Brown as a martyr after his execution.

At the Democratic convention of 1860, Senator Stephen Douglas

could not muster the necessary two-thirds vote, so the entire body dissolved.

Stephen A. Douglas argued, in his Freeport Doctrine, during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that

d. slavery would remain illegal if the people of a territory voted it down, regardless of the Supreme Court's contrary decision in the Dred Scott case.

As presented to Congress, the Lecompton Constitution provided for

d. the admission of Kansas as a slave state.

The political career of Abraham Lincoln could best be described as

largely a failure until his meteoric rise after 1854.

In the election of 1860

most Southerners refused to vote in protest against Lincoln's candidacy.

The border ruffians were

proslavery Missourians who rushed into Kansas to vote illegally and battle antislavery forces there.