Dred Scott Decision: Southern Democrats and Northern Opposition

1. Ch. 15TESTREVIEW

2. Our party’s platform supported the Dred Scott decision..Who are we? • Southern Democrats

3. The South’s secession was just dog-gon unconstitutional, andwe think the South was simply PO’d about the election results... • Northerners

4. I argued with Lincoln that popular sovereignty was the best way to to deal with the expansion of slavery ... • Stephen A. Douglas

5. This Supreme Court decision meant that people in a territory could not stop slaves from being brought into their area... Dred Scott decision

6. After Abraham Lincoln’s Presidential Election, which of the following states did NOT secede? • Mississippi • Kentucky • South Carolina • Georgia • Alabama

7. After Abraham Lincoln’s Presidential Election, which of the following states did NOT secede? • Kentucky

8. In my inaugural address, I assured the South that I would not abolish slavery... but, I spoke strongly against secession...who am I? Abraham Lincoln

9. I was ‘born’ when the Northern Whigs left their party and joined with the Free Soil Party, and other anti-slavery folks, because of the problems that were caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act... Republican Party

10. I was nominated by the Republicans in 1858 to run for the Senate seat from Illinois, againstStephen A. Douglas... • Abraham Lincoln

11. I took a neutral stance in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates... Stephen A. Douglas

12. I was elected as President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis

13. In the 1860 Presidential Election, our party opposed any and all limits on slavery... Southern Democrats

14. In the 1860 Presidential Election, our party’s platform said that Popular Sovereignty should decide the question on slavery... Northern Democrats

15. In the 1860 Presidential Election, our party wanted to preserve the Union and the Constitution... Constitutional Union Party

16. In the 1860 Presidential Election, our party opposed any expansion of slavery into the territories... Republicans

17. In the 1860Presidential Election, the _______ felt that the _______ was unwilling to accept majority rule... North South

18. In the 1860 Presidential Election, I ran for the Constitutional Union Party John Bell

19. In the 1860 Presidential Election, I ran for the Southern Democrat Party John Breckinridge

20. In the 1860 Presidential Election, I ran for the Republican Party Abraham Lincoln

21. In the 1860 Presidential Election, I ran for the Northern Democrats Party Stephen A. Douglas

22. I had been minister to Great Britain for 3 years, and said little about slavery. I was nominated to run for the Democrats in the Election of 1856, and was popular with Southern voters... James Buchanan

23. “i taut I taw a puddy tat....... I DID, I DID, see a puddy tat!!”

24. Tweety Bird

25. We supportedandapplauded the Dred Scott decision pro-slavery forces

26. In his First Inaugural Address, Lincoln told the South that he had no intention.... had no intention to interfere with slavery in the South...

27. -- Northern resentment of slavery increased...-- “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was written as a result of it...-- Some FREE Blacks were captured and enslaved... Fugitive Slave Act

28. Who supported the hanging of John Brown, because they believed him to be a very dangerous man who was encouraging slaves to rebel? Pro-slavery forces

29. Since we had voluntarily joined the Union, we also had the right to leave the Union... Southern States

30. He was the Republican choice for the 1856Presidential Election... John C. Fremont

31. I attacked and captured the arsenal at Harpers Ferry, VA, to seize weapons, distribute them to slaves, and begin a slave uprising... John Brown

32. In 1860, they were divided by the question of slavery in their political platform... Democrat Party

33. We were enraged by John Brown’s actions, and were horrified that some Northerners actually paid tribute to John Brown... Southerners

34. I was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who argued that any ban on slavery in the territories would violate a slaveholders 5th Amendment property rights... Roger B. Taney

35. December 20, 1860; we were the first state to secede from the Union... South Carolina

36. It was the LAST effort that attempted a compromise to keep the Union together... Crittenden Plan

37. This would allow slavery in some areas that had previously been banned by the Missouri Compromise popular sovereignty

38. this opened new territories to violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers Kansas-Nebraska Act

39. this was the result of pro-slavery forces burning the anti-slavery capital in Lawrence, KS “Bleeding Kansas”

40. I murdered 5 men at Pottawatomi Creek, and provoked a 3 year civil war in Kansas... Who was I? John Brown

41. A Northern Senator insulted my family and the South, and I shocked Northerners when I gave this Senator a ‘beat-down’ on the Senate floor Preston Brooks

42. -- a stronger fugitive slave law...-- California was admitted as a free State...-- the freedom for the new territories to decide the slavery question for themselves... Compromise of 1850

43. In this ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that free Blacks were not American Citizens Dred Scott decision

44. Southerners opposed this bill because it would keep them from taking their slaves into the Mexican Cession Wilmot Proviso

45. We opposed slavery because we feared that we would lose our jobs to slaves, who wouldn’t be paid... Northern workers& immigrants

46. The issue of slavery was to be decided in Nebraska and Kansas on what basis? Popular Sovereignty

47. Who wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”? Harriet Beecher Stowe

48. TEST Tomorrow! ( Here in Dee-Juan)