Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
10 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Dred Scott
|
a slave held by John Emerson
|
|
|
Roger B Taney
|
Chief Justice and one of the southerners on the court
|
|
|
Dred Scott Decision
|
Supreme court rulinmg tha African Americans were not US citizens that the Missouri Compromises reaction on slavery was unconstitutional and that ?Congress didn't have the right to ban slavery
|
|
|
Abraham Lincoln
|
a republican from Illinois who ran for a seat in the US Senate
|
|
|
Stephen Douglas
|
elected to the senate in 1846 ran against Lincoln in 1858 Little Giant
|
|
|
Freeport Doctrine
|
argued that people in the territories had the power to ban slavery by refusing to pass laws to protect it made by Douglas
|
|
|
John Bell
|
southerners nominated him for president
|
|
|
John Breckinridge
|
southerners nominated him for vice president
|
|
|
Confederated States of America
|
nation formed by seceding southern states in 1861
|
|
|
Jefferson Davis
|
provisional president of the Confederency
|
