Study Guide for Chapter 12.4 Quiz
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| The Election of 1856 was decided along... | sectional lines
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| In the Election of 1856, who won all the Southern states except Maryland? | Buchanan
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| 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
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| 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
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| The majority of the Supreme Court, including Chief Justice Taney ruled that Dred Scott was... | still a slave
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| The Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was still a slave because... | he had no right to bring a lawsuit
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| Which amendment to the Constitution prohibited Congress from freeing slaves because they can't take away property without due process of the law? | 5th
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| Which 1820 Compromise was ruled unconstitutional because the Supreme Court ruled that Congress had no power to prohibit slavery? | Missouri Compromise
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| According to the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision, what protected slavery in the United States? | Constitution
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| What caused the United States to divide even more over the issue of slavery? | Dred Scott decision
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| Who always believed that nothing could be done legally to prevent the spread of slavery? | Southerners
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| The Dred Scott decision also made which political party's policy of restricting the spread of slavery unconstitutional? | Republicans
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| Who was happy that the Dred Scott decision took away this policy of restricting the spread of slavery? | Northern Democrats
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| What did Republicans and other anti-slavery groups call the Dred Scott decision? | the greatest crime ever committed in the courts
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| Who engaged in a series of debates for the Illinois Senate seat in 1858? | Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln
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| What was the main issued debated during this election? | slavery
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| 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
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| Where did Douglas' Freeport Doctrine cost him support? | South
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| In the debates, what did Douglas claim that Lincoln wanted? | full equality for African Americans
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| What did Lincoln do when Douglas claimed he wanted full equality between whites and African Americans? | he denied it
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| What did Abraham Lincoln say was the main issue in the debate over slavery with Douglas? | was slavery wrong
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| Who was elected Senator from Illinois in 1858? | Stephen Douglas
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| Abraham Lincoln lost the Senate race in Illinois in 1858, but what did he get? | a national reputation
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| After the 1858 elections, Southerners began to feel threatened by the... | growing Republican power
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| John Brown hoped his attack on the Harper's Ferry Arsenal would... | start a slave rebellion against slaveholders
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| 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
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| Some Northerners, including Republican leaders, denounced John Brown's use of... | violence
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| Some Northerners saw John Brown as a ... | hero
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| The poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson called John Brown a... | martyr
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| Southerners feared a northern conspiracy against them when they learned of John Brown's connection to... | abolitionists
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