M17, L3, Political Divisions

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Dred Scott decision

(vocab word)

• James Buchanan

• John C. Fremont

• Roger B. Taney

• Abraham Lincoln

Democratic candidate and winner of the 1856 presidential election

(vocab word)

• James Buchanan

• John C. Fremont

• Roger B. Taney

• Abraham Lincoln

Republican candidate for the 1856 presidential election; against spread of slavery

(vocab word)

• James Buchanan

• John C. Fremont

• Dred Scott

• Roger B. Taney

political party founded to fight slavery and its spread to the West

(vocab word)

• Republican Party

• Democrat Party

• Whig Party

slave who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom in 1846

(vocab word)

• Roger B. Taney

• Dred Scott

• James Buchanan

• John C. Fremont

Stephen Douglas’s belief that popular sovereignty made the decisions of citizens more important than decisions made by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case

(vocab word)

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Freeport Doctrine

• Monroe Doctrine

• Slavery Debate

early leader of the Republican Party

(vocab word)

• John C. Fremont

• Roger Taney

• Abraham Lincoln

• Dred Scott

debates between senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas

(vocab word)

• Freeport Doctrine

• Slavery Debates

• Abraham-Stephen Debates

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

In response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the was formed, made up of people opposed to the spread of slavery west.

(pg 553 1st paragraph)

• American Party

• Free Soil Party

• Republican Party

• Whig Party

Over what issue did the Republican Party form in 1854?

(pg 553 1st paragraph)

• favoring the spread of slavery west

• opposing the spread of slavery west

• keeping immigrants out of public office

• preventing the admission of new states