Flashcards 2
When was the GOP established?
1854
1856 ran first president
Which court case was key in pissing of the North?
1857 Dred Scott v. Sanford
- Scott was not free
- slaves were not entitled to use the courts
- slaves or their descendants could never be citizens
- congress had no authority to exclude slavery from any US territory
What was the Lecompton Constitution?
When Kansas applied for statehood in 1857 the state legislature had to submit a constitution
- written to protect slavery
- most Kansans opposed it but never put to a popular vote
What was the aftermath of the Lecompton Constitution?
- Dem president Buchanan supported Lecompton constitution
- led to fracturing of the Dem party as Northern Dems broke from Buchanan and Southern wing of the party
- there was no longer a national party
Who was executed and why?
John Brown led raid on Virginian armoury in 1859
- plan to take weapons and arm slaves on neighbouring plantations
- executed for fomenting a slave rebellion
What happened at the 1860 DNC?
- Southern delegates demanded that the party support the federal protection of slavery, Northern delegates refuse
- Southern members storm out and nominate their own pro-slavery presidential candidate
- Northern Democrats select their own candidate: Stephen Douglas
Where and for what did Lincoln and Douglas originally clash in?
1858 Illinois Senate race
- many public debates between the two, gives Lincoln a national standing
- Lincoln loses but bc of audience and promise he gains nomination for President for 1860
What happened in the 1860 presidential election?
- Republican party only made efforts to get votes in the North, weren’t even on the ballot in some southern states
- Lincoln wins electoral college vote 59%
- for southerners this was the disaster they had feared for decades
What was Free Soil ideology?
- charged that the ‘slave’ power dominated the fed gov and was waging a deliberate war against the liberties of the free states
- focused on keeping the west free of slavery (non-expansion of slavery rather than the abolition of slavery)
- really about what’s best for the white common man
What happened in Kansas and Nebraska?
- Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
- repealed repealed the 1820 Missouri Compromise line and made the principle of popular sovereignty the formula for the settlement of Kansas and Nebraska
- destroyed the Whig Party and gave birth to the Republican Party in the North
What period followed the Kansas vote?
Bleeding Kansas
- 1856-1857
- over 250 killed in vigilante violence
- South Carolina Brookes on Senate floor beats abolitionist with his cane
What happened in the Kansas and Nebraska votes?
- massive voter fraud
- pro- and anti slavery voters poured into Kansas from out of the territory
- 1855 election in KAnsas 6,307 people voted but only 2,905 voters existed in Kansas
- pro-slavery territorial legislature elected
Which massacre took place in Kansas?
1856 John Brown led the Pottawattamie Creek Massacre
- killed 5 pro-slavery men with swords in response to Brooks
