Chaoter 16 Flashcards
What was the Wilmot Provis
A proposal that would band slavery is any lands that the us acquired from Mexico, but never passed
Who won the Election of 1848?
Zachary Taylor
What was the name for the bills that dealt with slavery in the states added since the
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
What required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves in 1850?
The fugitive slave act
Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be, what two things?
Fined or imprisoned
What did the enforcement of this infugative slave act do?
Caused more anger in the north
What increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the U.S.?
Kansas- Nebraska- Act
What is popular sovereignty?
People decided if they wanted slaves
Which territory was the first to have blood shed over slavery?
Bleeding Kansas
Who was the violent abolitionist that believed God had chosen him to end slavery?
John brown
What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?
Walked into the senates chamber and beat him with a cane
What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to
become?
To from the Republican Party
Who did Dred Scott sue?
Sanford his owner
What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?
Divided the nation even more
Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled on the Dred Scott case?
Roger b. Toney
According to the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Constitution do?
Protected slavery
What Senate race became the center of national attention?
Lincoln and Douglas dobarts
What party was each candidate a part of Lincoln Douglas race?
Republican Lincoln
Democrat Douglas
What was the main topic of the debates during the Lincoln Douglas election?
Slavery
Who won the Illinois senate race between Lincoln and Douglas?
Douglas
What was the name of the event when john brown led men to attack a weapon storage facility?
The raid on harpens ferry
What was brown to start at the raid on harpers feery?
To start a republican
After this event,what became a rallying point for many abolinst?
His death
What was the first state to secede from the union?
South Carolina
After seven states seceded what was formed on feb 4 1861
Confederate states of America
How did the confederat states of America justify secession?
Belief in state rights
Who was the first president of the confederate states of America?
Jefferson Davis
Whose hands did president Lincoln say the possibility of war was in?
The people’s
Confederate guns opens fore on what on April 12, 1861
Fort Sumter attack
