Chapter 10-Sectionalism and the coming of Civil War Flashcards
What were the two types of Whigs?
Conscience Whigs
Cotton Whigs
What issue would destroy the Whig political party?
Slavery
The Anti-slavery Whig party was called ___.
Conscience Whigs
The Pro-slavery Whig party was called
Cotton Whigs
Who was the hero of the Mexico War and the standard bearer for the Whig Party?
Zachary Taylor
The Free Soil hero who called for no expansion of slavery in the Mexican Cession was ____.
David Wilmot
The Anti-immigrant, anti-catholic political party of the 1840s was called ____.
The American Party or Know Nothings
Which new political party emerged in the mid-1850s that opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories.
Republican Party
the Gold Rush caused an huge American increase in population in ______.
California
By 1850, California applied to become a ____.
free state
List four parts of the Compromise of 1850.
California would become a free state
Slave trade banned in Washington D.C.
New Mexico Territory will use popular sovereignty on slave issue in future statehood.
Fugitive Slave Law
Which part of Congress was equal between Free and Slave states until 1850?
US Senate
Who was the most important compromiser fro the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay
The Fugitive Slave Act led to an increase in activity of the ____.
Underground Railroad
List three people who were conductors of the Underground Railroad
Levy Coffin
Quakers
Harriet Tubman
The ____ purchase was to build a transcontinental railroad along a southern route.
Gadsden Purchase
