Question | Answer |
The Election of 1856 was decided along... | sectional lines |
In the Election of 1856, who won all the Southern states except Maryland? | Buchanan |
In the Election of 1856, who won 11 free states, but did not win a single electoral vote south of the Mason-Dixon line? | John C. Fremont |
Who sued for his freedom because he had been purchased in Missouri, but was then taken to the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin? | Dred Scott |
The majority of the Supreme Court, including Chief Justice Taney ruled that Dred Scott was... | still a slave |
The Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was still a slave because... | he had no right to bring a lawsuit |
Which amendment to the Constitution prohibited Congress from freeing slaves because they can't take away property without due process of the law? | 5th |
Which 1820 Compromise was ruled unconstitutional because the Supreme Court ruled that Congress had no power to prohibit slavery? | Missouri Compromise |
According to the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision, what protected slavery in the United States? | Constitution |
What caused the United States to divide even more over the issue of slavery? | Dred Scott decision |
Who always believed that nothing could be done legally to prevent the spread of slavery? | Southerners |
The Dred Scott decision also made which political party's policy of restricting the spread of slavery unconstitutional? | Republicans |
Who was happy that the Dred Scott decision took away this policy of restricting the spread of slavery? | Northern Democrats |
What did Republicans and other anti-slavery groups call the Dred Scott decision? | the greatest crime ever committed in the courts |
Who engaged in a series of debates for the Illinois Senate seat in 1858? | Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln |
What was the main issued debated during this election? | slavery |
What was the name given to Stephen Douglas' idea that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholder's rights? | Freeport Doctrine |
Where did Douglas' Freeport Doctrine cost him support? | South |
In the debates, what did Douglas claim that Lincoln wanted? | full equality for African Americans |
What did Lincoln do when Douglas claimed he wanted full equality between whites and African Americans? | he denied it |
What did Abraham Lincoln say was the main issue in the debate over slavery with Douglas? | was slavery wrong |
Who was elected Senator from Illinois in 1858? | Stephen Douglas |
Abraham Lincoln lost the Senate race in Illinois in 1858, but what did he get? | a national reputation |
After the 1858 elections, Southerners began to feel threatened by the... | growing Republican power |
John Brown hoped his attack on the Harper's Ferry Arsenal would... | start a slave rebellion against slaveholders |
What happened to John Brown for his role in the attack on the Harper's Ferry arsenal? | he was convicted of treason and murder and hanged |
Some Northerners, including Republican leaders, denounced John Brown's use of... | violence |
Some Northerners saw John Brown as a ... | hero |
The poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson called John Brown a... | martyr |
Southerners feared a northern conspiracy against them when they learned of John Brown's connection to... | abolitionists |