Chapter 14 Section 3 - Sheet1

Question 1

What is the focus question of Ch.14 Section 3, The Crisis Deepens?

Answer 1

Why did the Lincoln-Douglas debates & John Brown’s raid increase tensions between the North & South?

Question 2

Why did the Lincoln-Douglas debates & John Brown’s raid increase tensions between the North & South?

Answer 2

Both events highlighted divisions on slavery.

Question 3

Dred Scott

Answer 3

an enslaved person who had once been owned by a doctor, who sued his owner for freedom, lost because he had no rights-was not a citizen

Question 4

Roger B. Taney

Answer 4

chief justice who said Scott had no rights, was considered property, and that living in a free territory did not make one free

Question 5

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 5

IL lawyer who spoke against Dred Scott decision, the idea that Africans could not be citizens was based on false view of history

Question 6

embrace

Answer 6

to hold tight; to readily accept

Question 7

clarify

Answer 7

to make the maning of something clear

Question 8

What was the result of the election of 1856?

Answer 8

James Buchanan was elected president.

Question 9

What was the new party northern Whigs joined with a main goal of stopping slavery?

Answer 9

the Republican Party

Question 10

Why did Dred Scott claim he was no longer enslaved?

Answer 10

He had lived in places where slavery was illegal.

Question 11

Why was Lincoln voted out of Congress after one term?

Answer 11

He questioned the motives of the Mexican American War, which seemed unpatriotic to his constituents.

Question 12

What was the main goal of the Republican Party?

Answer 12

to stop the expansion of slavery in the territories

Question 13

Why did the Republican party have such sudden success?

Answer 13

The success resulted from growing opposition in the North to the spread of slavery.

Question 14

What brought Abraham Lincoln back into politics?

Answer 14

his opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 15

What did Lincoln mean by a “House Divided?”

Answer 15

The nation would have to make up its mind about slaery and allow it either everywhere or nowhere.

Question 16

What position did Douglas take on slavery?

Answer 16

voters should decide

Question 17

How did John Brown’s raid affect the national debate over slavery?

Answer 17

Brown’s raid the debate more heated. Southerners were shocked and angered at northern support of Brown.

Question 18

What was John Brown’s goal in launching the raid on Harpers Ferry?

Answer 18

His goal was to capture arms and start a slave rebellion.

Question 19

Which groups supported the newly formed Republican Party?

Answer 19

northern Democrats and Free-Soil Party members

Question 20

How did the outcomes of the elections of 1854 & 1856 affect the Repulican Party?

Answer 20

Their success encouraged the Republicans.

Question 21

On what grounds did Dred Scott sue for his freedom in court?

Answer 21

He had lived in territories where slavery was illegal.

Question 22

How did Taney’s ruling further divide the North and the South?

Answer 22

The South was happy, but the North was angry because the ruling meant slavery could spread west.

Question 23

What were the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

Answer 23

The South became convinced that the North was out to destroy its way of life; John Brown was hanged.

Question 24

Why do you think the Lincoln-Douglas debates received national attention?

Answer 24

Enslaved African Americans did not join him; he was outnumbered by troups.

Question 25

Identify one cause & effect of John Brown’s raid.

Answer 25

Brown wanted to seize US Army guns to supply enslaved African Americans with weapons so the could join in the fight for their freedom. But, Brown was executed and southerners, shocked by the support Brown received in the North, were convinced that northerners wanted to destroy the southern way of life.