Chapter 14: The Nation Divided
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Franklin Pierce became this in 1853..
President
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He filed a lawsuit that eventually divided the
nation even more.
Dred Scott
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People for $300A former slave who escaped and became a voice for abolitionist.
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Fredrick Douglass
He won the U.S. Senator race in Illinois in 1858.
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Stephen A. Douglas
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He won the 1848
Presidential election.
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Zachary Taylor
He proposed the Missouri
Compromise
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Henry Clay
The strength of the Republican Party was almost exclusively in
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North
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Many Southerners believed that the
novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was this.
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Propaganda
This stated that slavery should be forbidden in any lands that might be acquired by the USA in the Mexican War. It did not pass.
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Wilmot Proviso
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Southerners justified secession with this
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State Rights
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This was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
Slavery
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These are the results of this act that did not pass Congress are:
1.Free Soil Party forms
2.South fears North is trying to end slaves
3.Issue of slavery in new territories gained from Mexico was left undecided.
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Wilmot Proviso
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Stephen Douglas proposed letting the people decide about slavery through this.
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Popular Sovereignty.
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This strict law which allowed slaves to be recaptured in the North was passed in the Compromise of 1850
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Fugitive Slave Act
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This territory suffered widespread
violence over the slave issue.
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Kansas
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Decisions made on this Dred Scott vs. Sanford
1. Slave is property
2. Missouri Compromise is illegal because the US government can not make limits or restriction over slavery.
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This was the first territory to shed blood over the slave issue.
Kansas
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Cassie Stover
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Regional attitudes toward slavery decided
the outcome of this Presidential election
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Election of 1860: Lincoln won!
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This state was the center of national attention due to a Senate race in 1858.
Illinois
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This Act increased the amount of
Territory open to slaveholding.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Attacked Fort Sumter because they believed that war was inevitable so it was better to start it on their own terms.
Confederate States of America
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The South
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He wanted to lead a revolt of slaves.
John Brown
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For 100 points, what point of view is this painting
portraying?
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Seven states did this win Lincoln
was elected president.
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Secede
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He won the seat of U.S. Senator from Illinois.
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Stephen A Douglas
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California becomes a free stand in this
compromise.
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Compromise of 1850
Final JeopardyThis person would most likely agree with
this statement. “States’ rights are more important than preserving the Union.”
Final Jeopardy
• John C. Calhoun