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Ch.16 Flashcards

1
Q

Who won the Election of 1848?

A

Zachary Taylor

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2
Q

What was the name for the bills that dealt with slavery in the states added since the
Missouri Compromise?

A

Compromise of 1850

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3
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What required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves in 1850?

A

The fugitive slave act

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4
Q

Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be, what two things?

A

Fined or imprisoned

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5
Q

What did the enforcement of this act do?

A

Caused mor anger in the north

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6
Q

What increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the U.S.?

A

Kansas-Nebraska act

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7
Q

What is popular sovereignty?

A

Let people decide for themselves wether they wanted to use slavery or not

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8
Q

Which territory was the first to have blood shed over slavery?

A

Kansas

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9
Q

Who was the violent abolitionist that believed God had chosen him to end slavery?

A

John Brown

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10
Q

What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?

A

Senator Charles sumner lashed out against those for slavery including Andrew P. Butler

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11
Q

What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to
become?

A

The Republican Party

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12
Q

Who did Dred Scott sue?

A

He tried to sue his owners

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13
Q

What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?

A

It divided the nation even more

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14
Q

Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled on the Dred Scott case?

A

Rodger B. Taney

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15
Q

According to the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Constitution do?

A

Protected slavery

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16
Q

What Senate race became the center of national attention?

A

Lincoln and Douglas debate

17
Q

What party was each candidate a part of?

A

R Abraham

D Douglas

18
Q

What was the main topic of the debates during that election?

A

Slavery

19
Q

Who won the Illinois Senate race?

A

Douglas

20
Q

What was the name of the event when John Brown led men to attack a weapon
storage facility?

A

The Raid On Harpers Ferry

21
Q

What was Brown hoping to start at the Raid on Harpers Ferry?

A

A rebellion against slaveholders

22
Q

After this event, what became a rallying cry for many abolitionists?

A

Browns execution

23
Q

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

A

SC

24
Q

After seven states seceded, what was formed on Feb. 4, 1861?

A

Confederate States of America

25
Q

How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?

A

The belief in states rights

26
Q

Who was the first President of the CSA?

A

Jefferson Davis

27
Q

Whose hands did President Lincoln say the possibility of war was in?

A

The people

28
Q

Confederate guns opened fire on what on April 12, 1861?

A

Fort Sumter

29
Q

What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

A

The attack on fort Sumter

30
Q

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

A

A proposal that would ban slavery from any new states

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