Period 5: The 1850s

Question 1

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 1

• Written in response to the slave act in 1852
• Portrayed slavery in a way statistics could not
• Turned a whole generation of Northerners against slavery

Question 2

Stephen Douglas

Answer 2

• Senator who created popular sovereignty and the Kansas-Nebraska act

Question 3

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 3

1854 - Repealed the Missouri compromise and allowed slavery North of the 36 30 line based off popular sovereignty

Question 4

Charles Sumner

Answer 4

1856 - Got beat up with a cane after he gave a speech criticizing the expansion of slavery. Start of violence over the issue of slavery

Question 5

Cuba

Answer 5

1856 - The United States tried to acquire Cuba, thinking it would be at least one slave state (there were slaves there)

• They didn’t want to anger the Brits and French, so they met with them and told them their plans
• Word got out and the North went nuts so the plan died, but enforced the lack of trust between the North and the South

Question 6

Dred-Scott Decision

Answer 6

1857 - big win for the South, Dred-Scott was a slave that sued for his freedom in the North

• Supreme Court ruled that Black men cannot sue for freedom because they are not citizens
• Also ruled that congress can not limit slavery in Northern territories because of the fifth amendment right to property

Question 7

LeCompton Constitution

Answer 7

1857 - Pro-Slavery forces in Kansas created a sham-constitution and sent it to Washington hoping for it to be approved. Douglas realized it was a sham and stopped it from happening

Question 8

Republicans

Answer 8

1858 - Whig party dies, Republican party is born

• Northern party only
• Abraham Lincoln becomes a Republican