How did Democrats portray the Republican Party during the election of 1856 quizlet?

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ruled in the Dred Scott decision that Scott

could not legally claim violation Of his consti-tutional rights because he was not a citizen Of the United States. When the Constitution was written, Taney said, blacks "were regarded as

beings Of an inferior order ,

. so far inferior,

that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." Second, the laws Of Dred Scott's home state, Missouri, determined his status, and thus his travels in free areas did not make him free. Third, Congress's power to make "all needful rules and regulations" for the territories did not include the right to prohibit slavery. The Court explicitly declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, even though it had already been voided by the

The Taney Court's extreme proslavery deci-sion outraged Republicans. By denying the fed. era I government the right to exclude slavery in the territories, it cut the legs out from under the Republican Party. Moreover, as the Netc York Tribune lamented, the decision cleared the way for "all our Territories . . . to be ripened into Slave States." Particularly frightening to African

In a seven two decision, the Court rejected Curtis's arguments, thereby validating an extreme statement Of the South's territorial rights. John C. Calhoun's claim that Congress had no author. ity to exclude slavery became the law ofthe land, White Southerners cheered, but the Dred Scott decision actually strengthened the young Republican party. Indeed, that "outrageous" decision, one Republican argued, was "the best thing that could have happened," for it provided dramatic evidence ofthe Republicans' claim that a hostile "Slave Power" conspired against north• ern liberties.

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Match each presidential candidate in the 1860 election below with his party's position on the slavery question.

A. Abraham Lincoln 1. extend slavery into the territories
B. Stephen Douglas 2. ban slavery from the territories
C. John Breckinridge 3. preserve the Union by compromise
D. John Bell 4. enforce popular sovereignty

A-3, B-2, C-1, D-4
A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3
A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3
A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2

Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Dred Scott decision, (B) Lincoln-Douglas debates, (C) "Bleeding Kansas," (D) Harpers Ferry raid.

A, C, B, D
B, D, C, A
C, A, B, D
D, B, A, C
A, C, D, B

Match each figure below with his role in the 1856 presidential campaign.
A. John C. Frémont 1. Democratic nominee for president
B. Millard Fillmore 2. Republican nominee for president
C. Stephen A. Douglas 3. Know-Nothing (American party) nominee for president
D. James Buchanan 4. Too tainted by Kansas-Nebraska Act to obtain Democratic nomination

A-2, B-3, C-1, D-4
A-4, B-1, C-2, D-3
A-2, B-3, C-4, D-1
A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2
A-1, B-3, C-2, D-4

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