Exam 14: The Impending Crisis

In the Dred Scott decision,the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Roger Taney asserted that

The first state to secede from the Union was South Carolina,which took the fateful step just before Christmas in 1860.

After the first seven southern states seceded from the U.S.,the new Confederate States of America elected this man president of the new southern slave republic:

Discuss the reasons for the death of the second two-party system and consider the tensions in both the Whig and the Democratic parties.

The Wilmot Proviso,passed by the House but rejected by the Senate,would have

The death of America's second two-party System can be attributed,in part,to

How and when was the Know-Nothing Party established? For what purpose?

What argument in Congress led to the Compromise of 1850? What were its main provisions?

What was Lincoln's position on secession?

The original name of the Know-Nothing Party was the Federal Party.

During the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858,Abraham Lincoln articulated his position on slavery,which was that

Congress found itself debating slavery once again in 1854,this time as it tried to settle the issue of

Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in 1860

After John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry,Ralph Waldo Emerson proclaimed him a "saint."

Many white northern Democrats who opposed slavery

John Brown led the massacre at Pottawatomie Creek,Kansas,in order to avenge

All of the following were part of the Republican party platform in the 1856 presidential election except

What were the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

As the settlers of Kansas prepared to hold an election to set up their territorial government,

"The Crime Against Kansas" speech was delivered by ____ in the ____.