Name _______________________________________________
Period _______
Chapter 19 Video Review (1854 – 1861): Drifting Towards Disunion
Northern Resistance
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“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by ___________________________________________ (1852)
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Inspired many ____________________________ to resist the Fugitive Slave Act
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Brought __________________________ argument to slavery debate
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Exposed the horrors of slavery to a Northern & ____________________ audiences
Lincoln: “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”
Result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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It was assumed that Kansas would become a slave state and Nebraska would be a ____________ state
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Pro Slavery and Anti Slavery flood into Kansas
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New England Emigrant Aid Company: sent __________________________ settlers to the area
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From Missouri pro slavery “_______________________________” come into Kansas
Two rival governments set-up
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____________________________ - free soil
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____________________________ - slave government
_______________________________ Party is formed as a response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
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Sack of Lawrence 1856 – Free Soil town attacked by ___________________________ forces
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Pottawatomie Creek - ___________________________ and his homies attack pro slavery forces
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By 1856 _________________________ in Kansas between pro slavery and anti slavery forces
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THE BEAT DOWN!
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Charles Sumner (Senator from Mass.) gives a speech condemning events in “Bleeding Kansas”
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Insults Senator from ____________________________ Andrew Butler
Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina enters Congress and beats Sumner with a
__________________.
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Violence over slavery in Kansas had spread to _______________________
Election of 1856
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1st time Republican party runs a candidate for the Presidency
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Democrats pick James Buchanan
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_________________________________________
Picked because he had _________________________________ Kansas-Nebraska Act
_____________________________ picked Millard Fillmore
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Anti-Immigrant and Anti ___________________________
Lecompton Constitution
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1st challenge for President Buchanan
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Lecompton Constitution
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_______________________________
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Free Soilers boycott the election
Supported by President Buchanan
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Rejected by ________________________
Dred Scott Case
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Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his __________________________
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Dred Scott case goes to ________________________________ in 1857
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Roger Taney was the Chief Justice (a Southern Democrat)
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African Americans are not ______________________ of the United States
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Could not _____________
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Since slaves are ________________________, they could not be taken away (Constitution)
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Congress could not make laws regarding slavery in the territories
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Missouri Compromise UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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Abe Lincoln (Republican) debates Stephen Douglas (Democrat) for the ________________
Senate in 1858
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___________ debates held
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Lincoln challenges Douglas on _________________________ decision: Could slavery be
prevented in the territories
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Dred Scott decision said ________
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Douglas takes the position (__________________________) that territories could limit
slaver
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Southerners are pissed
RESULTS
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Douglas keeps _____________________ seat
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_____________________ becomes national figure
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Southerners are angry –
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Democrats will be _____________ in 1860
John Brown at Harper’s Ferry
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John Brown hopes to spark a _________________________________ in 1859
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Attempts to seize the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry
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It does not go well
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Charged with ____________________ and ______________
IMPACT
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South is outraged
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Brown becomes a _________________________ to abolitionist
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Immediate cause of ___________________________
Election of 1860
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Democrats Split
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The issue of slavery had divided Democrats
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Northern Democrats favored ____________________________________
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Popular Sovereignty & enforce Fugitive Slave Act
Southern Democrats favored John C. Breckinridge
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Allowed slavery in the __________________________
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Annex ____________________
Republican Party
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Lincoln and the Republican party platform
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For the free-soilers: no _________________________ of slavery in territories
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For the northern manufactures: a ______________________________ tariff
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For the Northwest: a Pacific ___________________________
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For the farmers: free homesteads (_____________________)
Southern secessionist threatened to leave Union if _______________________ wins
Election of 1860 Results
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Republican party wins the Presidency for the ___________ time
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But Lincoln is a “______________________________” President
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Southerners see him as a sectional President
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Not even on the ballot in _________ southern states
Secession
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________________________________ votes to secede in December 1860
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Eventually __________ southern states leave the union ___________________ Lincoln even
takes office.
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___________________________ States of America is formed
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See him as a sectional President hostile to slavery
___________________________________________ chosen as President
Lame Duck President Buchanan does nothing to stop secession
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From November 1860 to March 1861
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Does not believe secession is ________________________
One Last Compromise? Crittenden Compromise
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Last ditch attempt to avoid major crisis
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Hope to calm southern fears:
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The return of the _______________________________ Compromise idea
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Slavery prohibited in territories north of ____________________
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Slavery _______________________ in territories south of _____________
Lincoln ___________________ this
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Position of Republican party was not extension of slavery in the territories
Before Lincoln even takes office _________ southern states have left the Union!