15-3 & 15-4 Quiz Notes

Question 1

Dred Scott

Answer 1

an enslaved African American who sued for his freedom, Chief Justice Taney stated that Scott was not a citizen & had no right to bring a law suit, enslaved people are property & may not be taken away without due process of law

Question 2

John Crittenden

Answer 2

Kentucky Senator - hoped to find a compromise to save the Union by proposing a series of amendments to the Constitution to protect slavery

Question 3

Jefferson Davis

Answer 3

President of the Confederate States of America

Question 4

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 4

republican presidential candidate in 1860 and won the election

Question 5

What did John Brown want to accomplish with the raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?

Answer 5

to arm African American slaves & start a revolt against slaveholders.

Question 6

Fort Sumter

Answer 6

First attack of the Civil War

Question 7

Republican Party platform of 1860

Answer 7

Slavery should be left where it existed, but be excluded from the territories

Question 8

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Answer 8

The main topic was slavery. Abraham Lincoln challenged Senator Stephen Douglas to a series of debates, they were both running for Illinois State Senate. Douglas won, but Lincoln became nationally known as a clear thinker who could argue with force & persuasion.

Question 9

States that seceded, why they seceded, and the name of their new country

Answer 9

South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas Many Southerners didn’t trust the Republican Party to protect their rights. Confederate States of America

Question 10

How did Southerners justify secession?

Answer 10

they used the theory of State’s Rights

Question 11

How did Lincoln win the election when his name was not on the ballot in some Southern states?

Answer 11

He won every Northern state which was more populous than the South.

Question 12

What was the fear of many Southerners if the Republicans were to win the 1860 presidential election?

Answer 12

it would encourage slaves to revolt.

Question 13

How was the Republican Party formed?

Answer 13

when antislavery Whigs & Democrats joined with Free-Soilers

Question 14

South Carolina

Answer 14

They seceded from the Union after Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860.

Question 15

Arsenal

Answer 15

a storage place for weapons & ammunition

Question 16

Martyr

Answer 16

a person who sacrifices his or her life for a principle or cause

Question 17

Secession

Answer 17

withdrawl from the Union

Question 18

States’ Rights

Answer 18

Sourtherners used this to justify seceding from the Union. rights & powers independent of the federal government that are reserved for the states by the Constitution; the belief that states rights supersede federal rightrs & law