chapter 13 terms Flashcards
Vice president of the Confederate States of America
Alexander Stephens
Chief justice of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision
roger
- President of the Confederate States of America
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jefferson Davis
Democrat elected president in 1856, would not act to prevent secession
James bucannue
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher stowe
Runaway slave who started an abolitionist newspaper
Fredrick douglass
Runaway slave who helped others escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Republican president elected in 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Illinois senator who debated Lincoln and proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Acts
Stephen douglass
Former slave whose case went to the Supreme Court
dred scott
Abolitionist leader of the raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia
John Brown
Conscience Whigs, Northern Democrats, and the Free Soil Party joined together to form the_____ Party in 1854.
republican party
African Americans were not citizens and therefore could not sue in federal court, African Americans had no rights that a white man was bound to respect, moving into a free territory did not make a slave free, and the Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were unconstitutional because they deprived a person of his property without due process were results of the Supreme Court decision against _____.
dred Scott
14 __________________ view of slavery in 1860 was he believed the Declaration of Independence applied to blacks as well as whites, he opposed the spread of slavery to new territories, and he said he would not interfere with slavery where it already existed.
lincoln’s
The Confederates fired on _____________________because Lincoln was sending supplies to the fort.
fort sumter
The slave states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware remained in the Union and were called _____ states.
border state
ts population was much greater , it had most of the industry in Americaandit was adding many immigrants to its population annually were all advantages for the ___________in the Civil war.
north
It only had to fight a defensive war and did not need to invade the other region, they would fight intensely to protect their homes and way of life, and it had many good and experienced commanders were some advantages for the _______________ in the Civil War.
south
What is the term forpowers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states?
reserved powers
What is the term forgovernment based on consent of the people?
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Popular sovereignty
The person the owner hired to distribute the work among the slaves and ensure they did as expected was the ___________________________________________________
antebellum
In the ____________________system, slaves worked in large groups for a set amount of time each day.
gang system
. In the __________________________system, slaves worked on a specific job until it was complete and then could use the remainder of the day working for themselves.
task system
Two northern abolitionist newspaper publishers who called for an immediate end to slavery were
Lloyd and greely
. _______________________________were songs slaves wrote about their condition.
Spirituals
A famous book written about the plight of slave families and runaways was _______________________.
uncle toms cabin
The ____________________________Act proposed that popular sovereignty determine the status of slavery in two new western territories
kanas Nebraska act
The senator from Massachusetts who verbally attacked his pro-slavery colleagues and was beaten with a cane in the Senate chamber was_____________________
Charles Sumner
The South Carolina Congressman who beat a senator from Massachusetts with a cane was _____________________________..
Preston Brooks
Some Southern states threatened ________________________________or the act of leaving the Union, ifRepublicans won the election of 1860.
secession
When the Democratic Party split in 1860, Southern Democrats nominated __________________ ____________as their candidate.
John c breken bridge
The Constitutional Union Party nominated ___________________________as their candidate in 1860.
John bell
The states that seceded met in Montgomery, Alabama, in February 1861 and formed the _____ __________________________________________________
confederate states
Fort __________________________ in Charleston Harbor was the place where the first shots of the Civil Warwere fired.
fort sumter
Fifty counties of a state that had chosen to secede formed their own government and became thestate of
west Virginia
Why was Kansas called “bleeding Kansas” in the years leading up to its vote on slavery in the territory?
Because of the violence that happened between the anti-slavery and pro-slavery groups
- What did Lincoln do to ensure that Maryland remained in the Union?
He declared martial law and
suspended the right of habeas corpus.
