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HOMEWORK I.D’S pg.552-558

Freeport Doctrine (Mr. Helsaple)- Steven Douglas’s response to Abraham

Lincoln in their debate over slavery. He said that only the people, not the Supreme
Court, could decide slavery issues.

Confederate Capital (Mr. Helsaple)- 1st located in Montgomery, Alabama.

Eventually it was moved to Richmond, Virginia.

Abraham Lincoln (552)- A republican running for presidency in the election of

1858. At the time, Lincoln was nearly an unknown. He lost the election of 1858,
but won the election of 1860.

Border States (555)- States located between the North and the South. They were
divided over whether to stay in the union, or join the confederacy. Bell took most
of the border states.

South Carolina (556)- The South seceded because of something South Carolina
held. South Carolina held a special convention and voted to secede.

Secession (556)- Withdrawal from the union. Some Southern states debated
secession. This caused leader in Washington, D.C, to frantically fashion a last-
minute compromise.

John Crittenden (556)- Senator of Kentucky. On December 18, 1860, Senator

John Crittenden proposed a series of amendments to the constitution. Central to
his plan was a provision to protect slavery south of the line set by the Missouri
Compromise.

Jefferson Davis (556)- A senator from Mississippi. The states that had seceded
had called themselves the Confederate States of America. They chose Jefferson
Davis as their president.

States’ Rights (556)- Southerners justified secession with the theory of states’
rights. They argued that the states had voluntarily chosen to join the union, so why
couldn’t they voluntarily leave? This caused a lot of debate between the Union and
the Confederacy.

Fort Sumter (558)- A US fort on an island guarding the Charleston Harbor. On

the day after his inauguration, Lincoln received a dispatch saying Fort Sumter was
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low on supplies and the Confederates demanded the Fort’s surrender. This was
important, because following the surrender of the fort, the civil war began.