Bleeding Kansas Study Guide

What natural feature is the marker for the Northwest Ordinance?

Ohio River

Who sued for freedom once his master died since he was living in a free territory at the time of his masters death?

Dred Scott

Who was the president of the confederacy?

Jefferson Davis

What state was the first to secede from the Union?

South Carolina

Who wanted to end slavery because they believed it was morally wrong?

Abolitionists

Who was hanged for his bloody rebellion against slavery?

John Brown

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

What is when people vote and the majority wins. Used in the Kansas-Nebraska Act to determine whether a territory would be slave or free.

Popular sovereignty

The south's argument to secede from the union was that if they voluntarily joined the union they could...

voluntarily leave

Who were men who crossed the border of Missouri to illegally vote in the Kansas election to make Kansas a slave territory?

Border Ruffians

What political party advocated the Kansas-Nebraska Act in Congress?

Democrats

Who won the election of 1860?

Abraham Lincoln

What was the name of the new nation of seceded states?

Confederate States of America

What were the two reasons the North was more populated and wealthy?

1. industrialized

2. bigger cities

Lincoln won the presidential election because he won...

the electoral college

Douglas wanted Souther support so the... would be built with Chicago being the hub.

transcontinental railroad

who was quoted saying, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."?

Abraham Lincoln

Johns Brown attack on... led to the South's first discussion of succession.

Harper's Ferry

What were "Beecher's Bibles"?

Rifles

What party formed in 1848 and demanded the end of slavery?

Free-soil

What amendment would banning slavery in territories violate?

5 amendment

The debate over slavery escalated in... because Nebraska was not suitable to grow cotton?

Kansas

Where was the first attack on the Union of Confederacy?

Fort Sumter

What book detailed the abuse of slavery and pointed out that slavery was not just a Southern problem, it was the nation's problem?

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Lincoln originally did not want to abolish slavery. What did he want to do?

Stop the spreading of slavery to new territories

What negated the Missouri Compromise so Douglas could get Southern support for his Transcontinental railroad built to run through Chicago?

Kansas-Nebraska Act

What means withdrawing from the union?

Secede

Where were the majority of justices on the supreme court from at the time of the Dred Scott case and allowed their biases to influence their decision.

The south

In the Dred Scott case what was the Missouri Compromise declared even though the case had nothing to do with the Missouri Compromise?

unconstitutional

Of the three decisions in the Scott case, what decision outraged the North?

people of color cannot sue in court

The most effective ways slaves would display resistance was to engage in a ... where the slaves performed their jobs but not nearly as effectively as they should.

"work slow downs"

Besides the economy what did the south turn to in order to defend slavery?

the bible and history

By the 1850s, where could you find racism?

everywhere

Slavery has been in existence in the U.S. since... even though the number was quite small comparatively.

colonial times

What three factors led to the boom in cotton growing?

1. The introduction of the cotton gin

2. Using old tobacco- growing regions as soil to grow cotton

3. The Indian Removal Act

What were the most expensive slaves to purchase?

prime field hands

What were the least expensive slaves to purchase?

female slaves

Unlike what Justice Taney states in his assenting decision, the Constitution makes no mention of ... thus making his decision historically inaccurate.

race

The reason the South wanted slavery in the new territories was because when that slave territory becomes a state it would be a slave state which would help them control ... in order to make sure slavery would not be abolished as they had no way of winning the House of Representatives.

The senate

On May 24,1856, John Brown, under the cover of darkness, snuck into a pro-slavery settlement in Kansas and brutally killed 5 people in what is known as the..

Pottawatomie Massacre

Endorsed by President Buchanan, the ... was written to allow slavery in Kansas.

Lecompton constitution

Kansas was split into two governments with the capital of the anti-slavery government in ... which was burned down by a pro-slavery mob.

Lawrence, Kansas

Lincoln and Douglas were the first presidential candidates to engage in ... (7 total) where upon if was the first time the general public got to hear where candidates stood on issues out of their own mouths.

debates

Chief Justice Taney stated in the Dred Scott decision that the constitution was never intended for African Americans thus they had ... and are ...

no rights to sue in courts and are not citizens of the U.S.

The south weathered the economic collapse of 1857 because... were still strong, internationally.

exports

The North became... over the conflicting ideas of how to abolish slavery; either immediately or not allowing it to spread to the territories.

polarized

Southern s viewed John Browns attack on Harpers Ferry as NOT just and isolated incident but part of a conspiracy to mobilize slaves in...

mass insurrection

A country's ... is a legal document that outlines the rights of the people being governed and the limitations of those governing.

Constitution

What was the lowest slaves in the hierarchy?

Field Hands

What were the second top slaves in the Hierarchy?

Skilled labor

What were the top slaves in the hierarchy?

house slaves