805 Q1 - Changing Frontiers Flashcards
Stated that No slaves could be sold in public in Washington D.C.
Compromise of 1850
The idea that states could choose for or against slavery was called what?
Popular Sovereignty
Northerners disliked what act because it required citizens to help slave catchers?
Fugitive Slave Act
The North opposed what purchase because it would add more slave territories?
The Gadsden Purchase
Who debated slavery and became the Republican Presidential nominee in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the Supreme Court judge who wrote the verdict denying Dred Scott’s petition for freedom?
Roger Taney
Who debated slavery and brought the Kansas-Nebraska Act before Congress?
Stephen Douglas
How did the North and South differ on states rights?
North believed Federal government could limit slavery; South believed states should choose to have slavery or not
Who stopped the slave uprising and captured John Brown?
Robert E. Lee
What book strengthened the North’s stand against slavery?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Stated that a slave was a slave no matter where he was taken
Supreme Court
Who tried to get slaves to revolt against their masters?
John Brown
Stated that Congress could not forbid someone to own a slave?
Supreme Court
How did the North and South differ economically?
North was based on industry; south was based on agriculture
The two main policies of the Republican party were what?
Opposition to slavery in new territories - strong central government
Stated that California could join the Union as a free state?
Compromise of 1850
How did the North and the South differ culturally?
North was hardworking, thrifty, and progressive -the south was relaxed and slow paced.
What established the Fugitive Slave Act?
The Compromise of 1850
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who opposed racial equality?
Stephen Douglas
Abraham Lincoln believed what about slavery?
That it should not be expanded further
Stated that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional?
Supreme Court
President Pierce’s secretary of war was who?
Jefferson Davis
How did the North and South differ on slavery??
North was opposed to slavery; south believed slavery was important to their way of life
