Ch. 15 & 16 Flashcards
Lincoln-Douglas debates
debates on slavery between the Illinois Republics and Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate
“Little Giant”
The nickname for Senator Stephen A. Douglas
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
one of the best selling novels in american history written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
In the debate preceding the Compromise of 1850, John C. Calhoun didn’t argue
the people of the territories could exclude slavery before statehood
The older generation of sectional leaders who played a final role in the debates of 1850 include
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun
The Fugitive Slave Act did not
quiet abolitionist free blacks such as Frederick Douglass
The document that proposed that the U.S. buy or seize Cuba from Spain
Ostend Manifesto
The efforts of Commodore Matthew Perry led to an 1854 treaty that opened trade with the previously isolationist Asian nation of
Japan
The legislation sponsored by Stephen A. Douglas which in effect repealed the Missouri compromise in return for southern support for a transcontinental railroad to be built west of Chicago
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
helped bring about the organization of the Republican Party
The Missourians who crossed into Kansas to cast fraudulent ballots and promote the pro-slavery cause
“Border ruffians”
The popular name for American Party members who often belonged to secret Protestant fraternal societies
Know-Nothings
Navitism in the 1850s refers to the fear and hatred of
immigrants
The Dred Scott decision did NOT
declare that while blacks could bring cases to court, slaves were property
The Panic of 1857
convinced the South that its system was superior
The Republican platform of 1860 did not include
a demand that slavery be ended everywhere immediately
The first state to secede
South Carolina
The organization created by President Lincoln to promote healthier conditions at military camps and support the volunteer efforts to supply food and medicine
United States Sanitary Commission
The border states included
Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware and Missouri
The North’s advantages in the Civil War did not include
shorter supply lines
The South’s actual advantages in the civil war did not include
a belief that Britain would forced to intervene for cotton
Lincoln’s primary goal early on was to
keep the Union together and reconcile the south as soon as possible
The paper bank notes issued by the federal government under the Legal Tender Act
greenbacks
The battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac
introduced iron plating and revolving turrets
