Chapter 13 Flashcards
Location where the first shot of the War Between the States fired
Fort Sumpter
Belief that each territory can decide on the status of slavery within its borders
Popular Sovereignty
Acceptance of slavery in the South, rejection of slavery in the territories
Free-Soiler
California gold rush
Forty-niner
Radical Southerner
Fire-eater
Anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic
Know-nothing
Antislavery, probusiness
Republican
Slave revolt
Secret six
Leaving the union
Secession
Southern representative who caned a Northern senator in the Senate chamber
Preston Brooks
Constitutional Union candidate in the crucial election of 1860
John Bell
Illinois senator who was one of the major proponents of popular sovereignty
Stephen Douglas
War hero and the first Republican candidate for president
John C. Fremont
Last Democrat, pro-compromise president (1857-61)
James Buchanan
Fanatical antislavery terrorist
John Brown
Supreme Court Chief Justice who denied that blacks had citizenship rights
Roger Taney
First Republican president
Abraham Lincoln
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Southern Democrat candidate in the crucial election of 1860
John C Breckinridge
This said slavery must be banned in any territory acquired from Mexico
Wilmont Provisio
This stated that could not be banned in any territory became a state
Calhoun Resolutions
This would ensure that the transcontinental railroad would benefit Illinois
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Territories can prohibit slavery by refusing to adopt laws that establish it
Freeport Doctrine
His compromise measure failed in a last-ditch effort to save the Union
John J. Crittenden
The former slave who the Supreme Court denied was a citizen with rights
Dred Scott
Party was created in 1860 by conservative Northerners and Southerners who wanted to preserve the Union
Constitutional Union Party
This party’s slogan was “Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men”
Free soil party
The Southern spokesman for slavery in the territories
John C Calhoun
Federal arsenal was attacked in 1859 in hopes of sparking a slave revolt
Harper’s Ferry
Why did the South resist admission of California as a state?
Feared the loss of power in the Senate
According to Daniel Webster why was the debate over slavery in the new territories needless?
The climate of the new territories cannot support slavery
What was probably the most effective propaganda tool for abolition?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
What was the basic position of the Freeport Doctorine
Territories can prohibit slavery by refusing to adopt laws that establish it
What event caused the Lower South to secede?
The election of Lincoln
What event caused the Upper South to secede?
Lincoln’s call for troops
Explain the majority opinion and Chief Justice Taney’s view I’m the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford
The majority ruled that, as a slave, Dred Scott was not a citizen and therefore had no right to sue. According to Taney, the constitution did not recognize slaves or free blacks as citizens. Taney went on to rule that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional on the grounds that it unfairly deprived slaveholders of their property in territories north of Missouri’s southern border
Explain the basic positions promoted by Lincoln and Douglas in their famous debates
Douglas promoted popular sovereignty as the answer to the slavery question. He believed that it was a matter for the settlers in the territories to decide for themselves. Douglas also accused Lincoln of promoting the absolute equality of the races. Although Lincoln backed off from the issue of equality he refused to deny that slavery was immoral. According to Lincoln the heart of the issue was not black equality but the immorality and expansion of slavery. He did not at that point advocate the abolition of slavery where it then existed but only the prohibition of the extension of slavery into the territories
