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Word Splash Use the following words to make one coherent
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Northerners
Southerners
Missouri Compromise
Slavery
Division
Use the following words to make one coherent sentence Compromise of 1850
Popular Sovereignty
Sectionalism
7. 1852 Presidential Election
√ Franklin Pierce Gen. Winfield Scott John Parker Hale Democrat Whig Free Soil
Franklin Pierce
1853 – 1857 Democrat (14th)
• This 1856 political cartoon depicts President Franklin Pierce holding
down the beard of a giant Free Soiler as Senator Stephen Douglas
shoves an African-American man down the Free Soiler's throat.
12. Beating of Sumner “The Crime Against Kansas”
Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA)
Congr. Preston Brooks (D-SC)
13. Birth of the Republican Party, 1854
ß Northern Whigs.
ß Northern Democrats.
ß Free-Soilers.
ß Know-Nothings.
ß Other miscellaneous opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
14. 1856 Presidential Election
√ James Buchanan John C. Frémont Millard Fillmore Democrat Republican Whig
James Buchanan
1857 – 1861 Democrat (15th)
16. Panic of 1857
• reduction in foreign demand for American grain
•The agricultural south weathered the crisis better than the north
•“the result was an exalted notion of King Cotton’s
importance to the world and apparent confirmation of the
growing argument that the southern system of slave-based
agriculture was superior to the free-labor system of the
north”
18. The Lincoln-Douglas (Illinois Senate) Debates, 1858
A House divided against itself, cannot stand.
20. 1860 Presidential
Election
√ Abraham Lincoln Republican
John Bell Constitutional Union
Stephen A. Douglas Northern Democrat
John C. Breckinridge Southern Democrat
21. Crittenden Compromise: A Last Ditch Appeal to Sanity
Senator John J. Crittenden (Know-Nothing-KY)
Proposed amendment to protect slavery south of
36’30’