Chapter 15 Flashcards
(35 cards)
As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates…
Douglas defeated Lincoln for the Senate
When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, people in SC…
rejoiced because it gave them an excuse to secede
In 1855, proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as…
slave territory
Election of 1856 candidates
John C. Fremont - Republican
Millard Fillmore - Know Nothing
James Buchanan - Democratic
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin…
intended to show the cruelty of slavery
The immense debt owed to northern creditors by the South was…
repudiated by the South
Events in chronological order
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott Decision
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Harper’s Ferry Raid
In Bleeding Kansas…was identified with proslavery and….was with antislavery
Lecompton Constitution…New Eng. Immigrant Aid Society
As a result of Uncle Toms, northerners…
swore that they would have nothing to do with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law
The situation in Kansas indicated the impracticality of…..in the territories
popular sovereignty
As a result of the panic of 1857, the South…
believed that “cotton was king”
In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the US Supreme Court…
expected to lay to rest the issue of slavery in the territories
The gov’t of the Confederate States of America was first organized in….
Montgomery, AL
The Impending Crisis of the South argued that those who suffered most from slave labor were…
non slave owning southern whites
In his raid on Harper’s Ferry, John Brown intended to…
foment a slave rebellion
Nativists in the 1850s were known for their…
anti-Catholic and antiforeign attitudes
An “asset” for the South that never materialized was…
intervention from GB and France
During the Civil War…
blacks were enlisted by the Union army only after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued
The two major battles fought on Union territory
Gettysburg and Antietam
The Southern cause was weakened by…
the concept of states’ rights that the Confederacy professed
The Battle of Antietam was particularly critical because it…
probably prevented intervention by GB and France on behalf of the Confederacy
Lincoln hoped that a Union victory as Bull Run would…
lead to the capture of the Confederate capital at Richmond
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln…
was a calamity for the South
Clement L. Vallandigham, a Southern sympathizer and vocal opponent of the war, was derisively labeled a..
Copperhead
