Chapter 15 + 16 Flashcards
The nickname for Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, who was the person most likely to be nominated for president by the democrats in 1860, was
Little Giant
The debates on slavery between the Illinois Republican and Democratic candidates for the US Senate that occurred in seven towns from mid-August to mid-October 1858 were known as the
Lincoln-Douglas debates
One of the best selling novels in American history, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published in 1851 was the critique of slavery titled:
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
In the debate preceding the Compromise of 1850, John C. Calhoun argued that
The state’s rihts dotrine as a legitimate defense of minority rights
The territories were the common property of all the states.
The Constitution protected a person’s right to property everywhere.
Congress did not have the right to prohibit slavery in the territories
THe older generation of sectional leaders who played a final role in the debates of 1850 included
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun
True for the Fugitive Slave Law
It convinced many northern whites that slavery was a moral wrong
It drove many blacks to flee to Canada
The federal government enforced it rigorously
Captured slaves in the North were at the mercy of slave catchers because they had not rights to defend themselves
The document composed by Pierre Soule, John Mason, and James Buchanan propsoing that the US buy or, if necessary, seize Cuba from Spain became known as the
Ostend Manifesto
The efforts of Commodore Mathew 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THe legislation sponsored by Stephen A Douglas, which in effect repealed the Missouri Compromise in return for southern support for a transcontinental railroad to be bulit west of CHicago was the
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansa 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 called themselves
Border Ruffians
The popular name for American Party members who often belonged to secret Protestant fraternal societies was the
Know-Nothings
Nativism in the 1850s refers to the fear and hatred of
Immigrants
Hte Dred Scott decision did all of the following
Encourage Southerners to feel their position on slavery to be the correct one
Raise northern fears that slavery would become the national norm
Deem that the federal government could not interfere with the movement of property throughout the territories
Rule that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
THe Panic of 1857
Convinced the South that its system was superior
The Republican platform of 1860 included all of the folloiwng
Federal government support for economic development
A proposal to provide nearly free western lands to free men
Support for a transcontinental railroad
The passage of a higher protective tariff to aid buisness
THe first state to secede, on December 20, 1860, was
South Carolina
THe organization created by President Lincoln to promote healthier conditions at military camps and support the vlunteer efforts to supply food and medicine was called the
United States Sanitary Commission
The border states included all of the follwing
Maryland
Kentucky
Delaware
Missouri
