Lesson 27: Elections, Cases, Debates

Define: Secede

• to leave

• to stay

• to join

• to ask back

Define: Popular Sovereignty

• taxes on imports going westward

• a rule by the king

• voting by the people on whether or not to allow something

• seceding from a country to form a new country

Define sectionalism

• loyalty to the nation

• loyalty to a particular region of the country

• loving another section of a country

• loving another country you do not live in

Define manifest destiny

• member of any of the indigenous peoples of the western hemisphere

• an increase in the number, amount, or size of something

• philosophy that the US was destined by God to expand westward

• the belief that the US was destined to win the War of 1812

the Election of 1856 temporarily...

• showed slavery was a political AND moral issue

• allowed Kansas territory to decide on being free or slave

• made the issue of slavery more personal for northerners

• please the southern states who had threatened to secede

Candidates of the Election of 1856 were

• Pierce/Lincoln

• Lincoln/Breckinridge

• Fremont/Buchanan

• Sumner/Brooks

15th POTUS (1856 election winner)

• Buchanan

• Lincoln

• Fremont

• Breckinridge

The Dred Scot case...

• a Supreme Court decision that declared slaves were not US citizens

• the belief that Americans were destined to expand across the continent

• A series of debated between Lincoln and Douglas in 1858

• a local court case battling the validity of popular sovereignty

How did the Dred Scot case impact the Missouri Compromise?

• it agreed with the MO Compromise

• it extended the MO Compromise to the Pacific Ocean

• It made the MO Compromise unconstitutional

• it the MO Compromise an example for all states

how did the Dred Scott case impact the CIVIL WAR?

• it banned slavery in the west

• it increased tensions between the north and south

• it solved the slavery debate

• it made slavery legal in all states