7th grade ch 15 Flashcards
When did franklin pierce become president?
1853
Who won the 1848 presidential election?
Zachary Taylor
In the congressional election of 1858 the candidates were Lincoln and Douglas. Who won?
Douglas
In the election of 1860 who’s name didn’t appear on the ballots in most southern states?
Lincoln
Who proposed a last minute compromise that proposed amendments to protect slavery?
John Crittenden
Henry clay proposed what compromises?
The compromise of 1850
The Missouri compromise
The Kansas-Nebraska act repealed what compromise?
Missouri compromise
Who’s stand that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slavery became known as the Freeport doctrine? He was an opponent of Abraham Lincoln.
Stephen Douglass
Who ruled the deed Scott case?
Roger b. Taney
Who was a violent abolitionist?
John brown
Henry David Thoreau wrote what?
Civil disobedience
Why was the admission of Missouri such a controversial topic in the senate?
It would upset the balance of free and slave states
What did the free soil party endorse?
The Wilmer proviso it said that lands taken from Mexico would be slavery free
What is the fugitive slave act?
It made it illegal to aid slaves in escaping their owners
Why was the Underground Railroad established?
In opposition to the fugitive slave act
