2 Questions Module 17 lessons 2-4

Question 1

What did Roger B. Taney rule for the Dred Scott case?

Answer 1

-Roger B. Taney wrote that African Americans were not citizens,

-Only citizens could sue in federal court

-He also said that living in free territory did not make Scott free

-Lastly, the Fifth Amendment says no one can lose property without due process of law

Question 2

Who were mainly happy with the verdict of the Dred Scott case?

Answer 2

Most white Southerns were cheered by the decision

Question 3

Who did the Dred Scott verdict stun?

Answer 3

many northerns

Question 4

Name a person who was not happy with the verdict of the Dred Scott case?

Answer 4

Abraham Lincoln

Question 5

About Abraham Lincoln…..

Answer 5

-Illionois lawyer
-Antislaverist

Question 6

About Stephen Douglas….

Answer 6

-Democrat
-Had been senator since 1847.

Question 7

Who challenged who for the Lincoln Douglas debates?

Answer 7

Lincoln challenged Douglas

Question 8

What issue did Lincoln bring up during the Lincoln Douglas debates?

Answer 8

Spread of slavery in the West.

Question 9

What did Douglas do after Lincoln had said nation could not remain “half slave and half free.”?

Answer 9

Douglas criticized Lincoln

Question 10

What did Douglas use to win most of the votes?

Answer 10

The Freeport Doctrine

Question 11

What did John Brown plan to do during his uprising?

Answer 11

Planned to arm local slaves by attacking federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

Question 12

When John Brown’s raid began what happened?

Answer 12

John Brown took him and his men and took over the armory

Question 13

Did slaves join John Browns raid?

Answer 13

Could not get slaves to join uprising.

Question 14

What happened to John Brown during his raid?

Answer 14

Federal troops captured Brown and men in attack on arsenal.

Question 15

What happened to John brown after captured by federal troops?

Answer 15

Brown was convicted of treason, murder, and conspiracy, and was hanged.

Question 16

What did John Brown’s raid do to the Southerns?

Answer 16

Southerns were worried that Brown’s raid was the start of more attacks on the South.

Question 17

What did Lincoln promise during his campaign?

Answer 17

Lincoln promised not to abolish slavery where it already existed.

Question 18

What did Abraham Lincoln do that angered the Southerns?

Answer 18

Lincoln had not campaigned in the South or carried any southern states in the election.

Question 19

What did President Abraham Lincoln say about slave states in the South?

Answer 19

Lincoln insisted he would not change slavery in South but would not let it expand.

Question 20

What did people in the South believed if President Lincoln changed slavery in the South?

Answer 20

That their economy and way of life would be destroyed

Question 21

What state’s legislature met to consider leaving the union (free states)?

Answer 21

South Carolina’s legislature

Question 22

What happened after South Carolina’s legislature met to consider leaving the Union (free states)? And why?

Answer 22

South Carolina left the Union
Believing it had the right because it had voluntarily joined the Union.

Question 23

What did senator John Crittenden propose?

Answer 23

Series of constitutional amendments hoping to satisfy the South by protecting slavery.

Question 24

Which states joined together to create the Confederate States of America?

Answer 24

Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas

Question 25

What state did all of the Confederate States of America join to create the Confederate States of America?

Answer 25

South Carolina

Question 26

Who was elected Confederate president of the Confederate States?

Answer 26

Mississippian Jefferson Davis

Question 27

What was the main freedom in the Confederate States of America?

Answer 27

Slavery was legal

Question 28

What did President Lincoln do to try and stop the Confederate States of America?

Answer 28

Announced in inaugural address that he would keep all government property in the seceding states.