Chapter 8, Lesson 2: The Crisis Deepens

Question 1

Which two parties were officially created and who did they belong to?

Answer 1

Republican and Democrat.

↑ North ↑ South

Question 2

Who won the election of 1856?

Answer 2

James Buchanan

Question 3

What was the Dred Scott Decision?

Answer 3

Dred Scott was a slave that had gone with his master and lived in the North for a long time. When they returned to the South, Scott sued his owner, saying the time that he spent in the North meant he was a free man. Roger B. Taney said that he wasn’t allowed to sue, since he was of black heritage.

Question 4

Kansas

Answer 4

Buchanan urged Kansas to apply for statehood

Pro-slave legis. Arranged election; antislave Kansas said it was rigged.

Kansas didn’t become a state until 1861 because of disagreements

Question 5

Lincoln and Douglas

Answer 5

Debates extremely famous

Lincoln drove Douglas into a corner by asking if a territory could legally exclude slavery before achieving statehood.

Douglas made the Freeport Doctrine

Douglas also wins the election

Question 6

John Brown’s Raid

Answer 6

Chose to attack Harpers Ferry, free and arm the enslaved people there, and rebel.

Caught by marines in less than 36 hours

Brown was executed, some called him an angel and others, an enemy.