James Buchanan

Question 1

Term

Answer 1

1857-1861

Question 2

Party

Answer 2

Democrat

Question 3

Taney’s Dred Scott Decision

Answer 3

Brinkley 364-65
In 1846Dred Scott was taken by his master into Illinois and Wisconsin where slavery was illegal and his master died. In 1850 Scott sued the surgeon’s wife for his freedom

Taney(cheif justice) argued that slaves were property and the fifth amendment prohibiting Congress from taking people’s property.

Declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

Question 4

Lecompton Constitution Rejected

Answer 4

Brinkley 366
Kansas’s proposed constitution that allowed slavery in Kansas in 1857

Rejected twice by Kansas voters and Kansas ultimately entered the Union as a free state

Question 5

Lincoln Douglas Debates

Answer 5

Brinkley 366
1857 debates between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln, both candidates for the presidency, that made Lincoln more popular outside of his home state and led to him to winning the presidency in 1860

Question 6

John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry

Answer 6

Brinkey 367
1859 John Brown and 18 followers seized control of a U.S. arsenal in Vriginia in the hopes of inciting a slave rebellion.

He failed.

Convinced the South that all Northerners were evil doers with the sole intention of destroying Southern Life