Squad Flashcards Chapter 10 - Road To The Civil War

Question 1

Frederick Douglas

Answer 1

Black Abolitionist w/speeches

Question 2

Harriet Tubman

Answer 2

The Black Moses - Conductor of UR

Question 3

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 3

Uncle Tom’s Cabin/Key;

Geography book

Question 4

George Fitzhugh

Answer 4

Cannibals All! 1857

Question 5

John Calhoun

Answer 5

SC Warhawk;

Defender of south

Question 6

Henry Clay

Answer 6

KT Senator/Warhawk;

Missouri Compromise

Question 7

Stephen Douglas

Answer 7

The Little Giant of Illinois;
Supported MO Comp;
Sponsored KA-NB Act;
Lincoln debates;
Northern democrat-1860

Question 8

John Brown

Answer 8

Antislavery fighter/leader in Kansas vs Border Ruffians;
Harper’s Ferry raid;
Executed 5 settlers in response to looting of town (Pottawotomi or whatever)

Question 9

Dred Scott

Answer 9

1857 ruled not a person, cant be freed from land (dead master)

Question 10

John Breckinridge

Answer 10

Southern Democrat candidate

Question 11

William Seward

Answer 11

Extremist - lost to Lincoln for Republican candidate

Question 12

Missouri Compromise

Answer 12

Clay;
Missouri wants slave statehood;
Maine wants free statehood;
Two bills united to draw line at 36 30;
March 1820

Question 13

Compromise of 1850 - backstory

Answer 13

To settle Guadalupe Hidalgo land, TX, and DC slavery;
Jan 1850 by Henry Clay;
Clay writes omnibus bill, argues against Calhoun(dies)/Mason, Webster speaks for bill, Douglas speaks for clay, seward says it gives too much to slavery (extremist)

Question 14

Compromise of 1850 - results

Answer 14

TX -10mil to shrink;
Pop sov -NM NV AZ UT;
DC slave trade abolished;
CA-free state;
Fugitive SAVAGE act

Question 15

Fugitive SAVAGE act

Answer 15

Commisioners- $5 to free, $10 to slave;
Simplified claim system for owners;
no trial by jury;
Right to compel citizen assistance;
Results: blacks flee to CAN, free
blacks enslaved, abolition strengthened, underground railroad more active

Question 16

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 16

Douglas wants unorganized territory developed (selfish speculator);
Pop sov for 2 territories (named);
Results: bleeding kansas, Pierce loses chance for reelection, political parties reshuffle

Question 17

Democrats

Answer 17

Become pro-slavery party of south;

1860 Election: split - Douglas of North (popsov) vs Breckinridge of South (expandslavery)

Question 18

Whigs

Answer 18

Clay and Webster -reaction to King Jackson;
Fell in 1854;
Cotton whigs -become southern dem;
Conscience whigs -become northern rep

Question 19

American/Know-Nothing Party

Answer 19

1840s-1850s;
Antiimmigrant/anticatholic;
Wanted to focus on ^ and not slavery;
“I know nothing” to questions

Question 20

Republican Party

Answer 20

Reaction to Kansas-Nebraska Act;
Whigs/Freesoilers/Knownothings/northerndems;
1854-won House

Question 21

Election of 1856

Answer 21

Democrats "slavery expansionists;
Repubs "extremists";
American/knownothing - ...;
Buchanan 174 D
Freemont 114 R
Fillmore 8 A

Question 22

Election of 1860

Answer 22

Relaxed Reps vs Divided Dems;
Constitutional Union-Moderate border states;
Lincoln wins (chosen over extremist seward;)
Dems-party divided-no chance;
Union-hahahaha no chance

Question 23

Secessionists

Answer 23

When Abe won, they felt the country was north dominant. Even though lincoln didnt wanna end slavery, they still got salty. SC secedes shortly after election, 6 states follow suit and form Confederacy

Question 24

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 24

The Liberator;

Anti-slavery societies

Question 25

Harper’s Ferry - hostility

Answer 25

Oct.1859; Motives: establish safe haven for runaways, attack slave owners, seize weapons; without heeding Douglas’s warning, “hero” John Brown attacked Harper’s Ferry, cut telegraph wires, seized arsenal, 60 hostages. Asked slaves to join, but instead was surrounded by citizens. Son shot trying to forfeit. Buchanan heard news, sent Col. Rob Lee. Results: 10 killed, 7 captured, 5 escape, Brown executed.

Question 26

Bleeding Kansas - hostility OUTLINE OF EVENTS

Answer 26

1. Kansas-Nebraska Act allows pop sov;
2. Border Ruffians influence Kansas;
3. Abolitionists finance settlers to Kansas;
4. Leavenworth - Ruffian settlement;
5. Pro-slavery legislature abuses power;
6. Free-Soil gov’t exists too;
7. Lawrence - free soil settlement gets looted;
8. So Pottawatomie Creek happens w/ Brown
9. Preston beats Sumner after The Crime Against Kansas speech;
   10 Marias des Cygne massacre
10. Statehood

Question 27

Bleeding Kansas - Lawrence, Kansas and Pottawatomie Creek Massacre

Answer 27

Lawrence is a free soil settlement raided by Ruffians in May 1856. Brown reacts by taking sons and other and killing 5 near PC to “strike terror in the hearts of pro-slavery people”.

Question 28

Bleeding Kansas- Political Fight

Answer 28

Sumner gives 2 days speech “The Crime Against Kansas against Andrew Butler. Preston Brooks beats Sumner with a cane.

Question 29

Bleeding Kansas - Marais des Cygne Massacre

Answer 29

May 1858 - group tries to drive out free-soilers, 30 Ruffians execute 11 free men.

Question 30

Bleeding Kansas - resolution to statehood

Answer 30

Pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution rejected in Congress (not by Buchanan) because of the voting fraud. Re-vote in Kansas shows anti-slavery gov’t winning, and Jan 1861 Kansas is a free state.