us hist ch. 13
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- "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
- phrase by Lincoln
- "Mystic cords of memory"
- phrase by Lincoln, trying to appeal to memoies of the US as unified
- Abraham Lincoln's positions
- 1. against popular sovereignty 2. Lincol is not an abolitionst 3. slavery not allowed to expand (it will eventually die out) 4. slavery depreives our republic of its just influence in the world - US is the bes thope for mankind 5. doesn't argue for eq
- Bleeding Kansas
- civil war in Kansas over the issue if there should be slavery or not
- border ruffians
- pro-slavery people who went to kansas to vote for slavery
- Dred Scott Case
- Scott, slave, sues owner because for freedom case represents if Congress has power to prohibit slavery in territories or not Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney saysthat Missouri Compromise and popular soveriengty unconstitutinoal and that blacks are
- Election of 1860
- Lincoln(Republican) vs. Douglas(Northern Democrat) vs. John Bell(Constituional Union Party) vs. Breckinridge(Southern Democratic Party) ; Lincoln wins, so whole Southern tier voted to secede before Linoln takes office March 1861. South Carolina 1st to sec
- Freeport Doctrine
- When Lincoln points out Douglas's contradiction: Douglas supports the Dred Scott Case and popular soveriegnty, which don't work out together
- Harper's Fery
- John Brown leads a rebellion in Virginia Brown eventually captured and killed, but before he is executed he makes an eloquent speech that touhes the North and digusts the South
- James Breckinridge
- nominated for Southern Democratic Party called for a national slave code to make slavery legal in all the states
- James Buchanan
- Pennsylvania Democrat, favored popular sovereingyt, won election
- John Bell
- Ex-whig formed a fourth party called the Constitutional Party (based on the 'union as it was')
- John Brown
- militant abolitionist who led a small group to murder proslavery farmers along Pottawatomie Creek (most famous event in Bleeding Kansas Period)
- John Fremont
- ran against James Buchanan 1856 Republican
- popular sovereignty
- the people in territories get to vote if they want states or not
- Republican: ____ Democrat: ____
- north, south
- result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and Douglas's popular sovereignty proposal
- they do popular soveriegnty but it's not a fair vote, some people aren't even from Kansas
- The anti-Nebrasks meetings (about the Kansas-Nebraska Bill) formed the basis of the _______, which ___.
- Republican Party main slogan: Free Soil Posiion
- The ______ virtually disappeared during the battle over the Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Whig Party
- When Democrats chose their candidate to be Stepehen Douglas, the militant southerners ____
- walked out and formed the Southern Democratic Party
- When the Northern Whigs joined the Republicans or the Douglas Democrats in the North, the only remaining political party with a presence both in the North and South was the __________.
- Democratic Party