Chapter 15 the Nation Breaking Apart , Page 478

Chapter 15 The Nation Breaking Apart, page 478 Name______Section One: Tensions Rise Between North and South

1. Who is the man in the picture on page 481? ALEXIS DE

TOCQUEVILLE What did the Ohio River separate? SLAVERY

STATE OF KENTUCKY AND FREE STATE OF OHIO Pg. 481

2. How did Southerners justify slavery? WHITE PEOPLE WERE SUPERIOR, SLAVE

OWNERS INTRODUCED SLAVES TO CHRISTIANITY, THEY WERE GOOD TO

THEIR SLAVES; FOOD , CLOTHING , SHELTER 482-483

3. Define the Wilmot Proviso. 1846 DAVID WILMOT

PROPOSAL TO OUTLAW SLAVERY IN ANY

TERRITORY OBTAINED AS A RESULT OF HE

MEXICAN WAR , PASSED THE HOUSE, FAILED

IN SENATE

4. What was the Free Soil Parties slogan? POLITICAL PARTY DEDICATED TO THE

STOPPING THE EXPANSION OF SLAVERY, “FREE SOIL, FREE SPEECH, FREE

LABOR FREE MEN. THEY PUSHED THE ISSUE TO THE FOREFRONT 1848 AND

1852 5. Which house of Congress were slavery proponents concerned with? SENATE (TWO PER

STATE ) THE HOUSE WAS ALWAYS DOMINATED BY THE NORTH

6. Compromise of 1850. See class notes.

1. CALIFORNIA ENTERS THE UNION AS A FREE STATE

2. ALL MEXICAN CESSION LAND WOULD USE POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY TO DECIDE

SLAVERY : POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY IS THE IDEA THAT THE PEOPLE

OF THE TERRITORY OR STATE WOULD VOTE FOR OR AGAINST HAVING

SLAVERY IN THEIR AREA.

3. SLAVE TRADE IN WASHINGTON D. C. WOULD BE OUTLAWED (SLAVERY IN D. C.

WOULD STILL EXIST

4. A MORE EFFECTIVE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT . THIS ACT ALLOWED

“FUGITIVES” (ESCAPED SLAVES) TO BE HELD WITHOUT A

WARRANT, NO JURY TRIAL, REQUIRED NORTHERNERS TO HELP

RECAPTURE RUNAWAY SLAVES AND PLACED PENALTIES ON

THOSE WHO DID NOT : FINES AND JAIL TIME ( THE FUGITIVE

SLAVE ACT WAS THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE OF THE

COMP OF 1850)

7. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin and when was it written? HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

(1852) 8. What did the book show? THE EVILS OF SLAVERY,

9. How many languages was Uncle Tom’s Cabin translated into? 485 20 LANGUAGES

11. Define Kansas-Nebraska Act.486 LAW PROPOSE BY STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, 1854.

ORGANIZED KANSAS AND NEBRASKA INTO TERRITORIES . PEOPLE OF THESE

TERRITORIES WOULD USE POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY TO DECIDE SLAVERY. THIS

DESTROYED THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE OF 1820 . DOUGLAS WAS HOPING

FOR A NORTHERN TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD ROUTE.

12. Why did Kansas Bleed? Pg. 487 CLASHES BETWEEN PRO AND ANTI SLAVERY

SUPPORTERS

13. Why did Preston Brooks attack Senator Charles Sumner? SUMNER INSULTED A

RELATIVE OF BROOKS. BROOKS HIT SUMNER WITH A CAIN SEVERELY

INJURING SUMNER . NORTHERNERS WERE AGHAST, SOUTHERNERS CHEERED

14. What political party began as a result of the anti slavery movement? Page 487 THE

REPUBLICAN PARTY

Section Two : Slavery Dominates Politics page 491

15. Over what issue did the Whig party split up? Page 491-492 THE KANSAS – NEBRASKA

16. Define Republican Party. Pg. 492 A NEW POLITICAL PARTY (1854) THAT OPPOSED

SLAVERY AND DID NOT WHAT TO SEE SLAVERY EXPAND

17. Who did the Know – Nothing Party dislike? 493 IMMIGRANTS 18. Freemont was the looser but what did the election show the nation? 493 HE WON 11 STATES

IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, SHOWING REPUBLICANS WERE A MAJOR

FORCE AND THAT SLAVERY WAS DIVIDING THE UNION

19. Define Dred Scott v. Sandford page 493 DRED SCOTT A SLAVE SUED FOR HIS

FREEDOM IN THE SUPREME COURT AND LOST. CONGRESS SAID SLAVE WERE

NOT CITIZENS AND THEREFORE HAD NO RIGHTS. THE S.C. RULES THAT THE

MISSOURI COMPROMISE WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL . THE RULING REINFORCED

THE IDEA THAT SLAVES WERE PROPERTY. BECAUSE SLAVES WERE PROPERTY

CONGRESS HAD NO AUTHORITY TO RESTRICT AN OWNER FROM TAKING THEIR

PROPERTY ANYWHERE! THIS THRILLED PRO SLAVERY PEOPLE

20. Define Lincoln- Douglass debate 495 SERIES OF DEBATES BETWEEN STEPHEN A.

DOUGLAS AND ABE LINCOLN FOR THE 1858 SENATE SEAT OF ILLINOIS.

LINCOLN LOST BUT THE RACE MADE LINCOLN FAMOUS AND A LEADER OF

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

21. According to Douglass could the people go against the Supreme Court? Page 496 YES

22. What did John Brown try to do? Pg. 497 IN 1859 HE TRIED TO LEAD A SLAVE REVOLT

AT HARPERS FERRY , VIRGINIA. ABOLITIONIST SAW HIM AS A HERO,

SOUTHERNERS WERE APPALLED

Section 3 : Lincoln’s Election and Southern Secession page 499

23. Who is in the picture on page 499? MARY AND JAMES CHESNUT

24. What does she foresee? THE CIVIL WAR 25. What issue split the Democrats in the election of 1860?page 500 THE ISSUE OF SLAVERY

26. Define platform page 500 A STATEMENT OF BELIEFS OF A POLITICAL PARTY

27. What was Stephen A. Douglass’ platform? LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE THE ISSUE OF SLAVERY

:POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY

28. Why did white Southerners fear Lincoln? Page 501 THAT HE WAS GOING TO BAN SLAVERY, HE

THREATENED THEIR WAY OF LIFE

29. How did the Southerners justify seceding? USING THE IDEA OF STATES RIGHTS , THE STATES HAD

VOLUNTARILY JOINED THE UNION THEY COULD VOLUNTARILY LEAVE THE UNION

30. What state was the first state to LEAVE THE UNION? SOUTH CAROLINA

31. What was the name of the new country and who was their president? CONFEDERATE STATES OF

AMERICA, JEFFERSON DAVIS WAS THEIR PRESIDENT

32. What event caused the Southerners to leave the Union? LINCOLNS ELECTION