Ch 14 ReviewPoliticians Conflicts Political Parties Legislation

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Kentucky Senator who proposed the Compromise of 1850.

Who is Henry Clay?

12th President. He opposed the Compromise of 1850. Died in office of natural causes.

Who is Zachary Taylor?

Illinois Senator who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Ran against Lincoln in the Election of 1860.

Who is Stephen Douglas?

Democratic Presidential candidate in 1848. Promoted the idea of popular sovereignty.

Who is Lewis Cass?

15th President. Considered the worst president ever, but actually the best since he’s the only one from Pennsylvania.

Who is James Buchanan?

Struggle between abolitionists and proslavery forces for voter control of Kansas territory in the summer of 1856.

What is “Bleeding Kansas”?

A raid on a weapons arsenal in Virginia led by John Brown in October 1859. An attempt to start an armed slave revolt.

What is Harper’s Ferry raid?

A South Carolina Representative erupted onto the Senate floor and beat a Massachusetts senator with his cane for his

antislavery speech.

What is the Brooks-Sumner incident?

The first state to secede from the Union on December 20, 1860.

What is South Carolina?

John Brown and his sons rode into Kansas and murdered five proslavery settlers in 1856.

What is the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre?

Formed in 1847-1848, they were dedicated to opposing slavery in newly acquired territories. Their presidential

candidate in 1848 was Martin Van Buren.

What is the Free-Soil Party?

Nativist party formed in 1845. Appealed to anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant sentiment. Millard Fillmore was their

presidential candidate in 1856.

What is the American Party (Know-Nothings)?

Compromised of former Whigs, Northern Democrats, and free-soilers. They opposed the expansion of slavery.

What is Republican Party?

Prosouthern Democrats. Buchanan and Pierce were denounced as these.

What are “doughfaces”?

Political party which disintegrated in the 1850s due to their internal divide over slavery. Last candidate to run for

President was Winfield Scott.

What are the Whigs?

Admitted California as a free state, prohibited the slave trade in Washington D.C., imposed a strong fugitive slaw

law, and admitted New Mexico territory on basis of popular sovereignty.

What is the Compromise of 1850?

Prosouthern Democrats. Buchanan and Pierce were denounced as these.

What are “doughfaces”?

A desperate measure to prevent the Civil War, proposed by a Kentucky Senator, in December 1860. It offered a

constitutional amendment recognizing slavery south of the 36 30’ line. It was defeated by Republicans.

What is the Crittenden Compromise?

A rigged convention drafted this constitution to make Kansas a slave state in 1857. It was defeated by House Republicans and repudiated by the people of Kansas.

What is the Lecompton Constitution?

An amendment to the Mexican War Appropriations Bill that would have banned all blacks from the new territories. Supported by Northern Democrats, it passed in the House

yet failed in the Senate.

What is the Wilmot Proviso?

Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853. It promoted abolition and intensified sectional conflicts.

What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

1857 Supreme Court case which declared that slaves were not citizens, Congress had no right to prohibit slavery in

territories, and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?

Speech made by Lincoln in the Illinois Senate in 1858 which stated the U.S. could not survive half-slave and half-free.

What is the House-Divided Speech?

The most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850. This provided for the return of escaped slaves to their

masters. The North was lax in enforcing it.

What is the Fugitive Slave Law?

Repealed the Missouri Compromise and applied popular sovereignty to the Kansas band Nebraska territories.

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

A series of seven debates for the Illinois Senate in 1858. Democrat supported popular sovereignty, Republican

asserted that slavery should not spread to the territories.

What are the Lincoln-Douglas dabates?

Final Jeopardy Topic

Politics

Promised to forge a compromise between the North and South. Their presidential candidate in 1860 was

John Bell.

What is the Constitutional Union Party?