1860 Election

Question 1

election

Answer 1

• four people running

- can you keep the union together?

Question 2

bleeding kansas

Answer 2

• kansas territory deciding on the slave issue
• violence all over kansas
• nicknamed “bleeding”
• preview of the civil war as a whole
• rise of john brown

Question 3

john brown

Answer 3

• abolitionist
• violence IS an option in getting rid of slavery
• would kill slave owners in Kansas
• this was a moral issue to Brown

Question 4

1856 - senate floor

Answer 4

• charles sumner gives anti-slavery speech in Washington D.C.
• sumner is beated during the speech on the senate floor
• violence has come to the government

Question 5

1857 - dred scott

Answer 5

• scott was a slave
• moved to a free state with his slave owner- scott challenges that he is now free
• supreme court says “no”

Question 6

douglas vs. lincoln

Answer 6

• both run for president
• both had run against each other for congress in 1856
• traveled around the nation debating each other
• freeport doctrine - Lincoln asked if Douglas was still in favor of letting people decide - Douglas says “yes” (is douglas for violence?)

Question 7

1859 - Harper’s Ferry

Answer 7

• John Brown
• raids military arms depot in virginia
• brown’s goal is to start a slave uprising
• brown is captured and executed

Question 8

1860 results

Answer 8

• abe lincoln wins with 40% of the vote (60% did not vote for him)
• republican win
• 4 total candidates split the vote
• nation is divided
• south carolina starts the process of leaving the US

Question 9

remember this…

Answer 9

john brown was a preview of the civil war. he knew it to be true, and he was right