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
the route for the Transcontinental railroad that would begin in Chicago and head west through the middle portion of the country was following the ____ route.
Emigrant Route.
List the three sections of the emerging United States in the 1850s?
North
South
West
List two important politicians who embraced Popular Sovereignty on the slavery issue.
Lewis Cass
Stephen Douglas
_____ destroyed the Compromise of 1820.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
____ gave a famous speech about The Crime against Kansas.
Charles Sumner
_____ beats Charles Sumner with a cane because of the insulting remarks about southern slave owners.
Andrew Butler
List the two groups fighting over slavery in Kansas.
Border Ruffians v. Jayhawkers
_____ would allow slavery to exist anywhere no matter what Congress said.
Dred Scott Decision
Stephen Douglas’ _____ angers southerners and a sense of distrust by northerners.
Freeport Doctrine
What in essence said that slavery cannot exist where law enforcers will not protect the instutution
Freeport Doctrine
List two places where John Brown used terrorism against slave owners.
Potawatomie, Kan.
Harper’s Ferry, Va.
What book showed the evils of slavery?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
To ____ means to officially quit the Union.
Secede
President ____ wanted to appease the south to try to stop secession in 1860.
President James Buchanan
List the presidential candidates in 1860.
Lincoln, Republican Party
Breckinridge, southern Democratic Party
John Bell, Constitutional Union Party
Stephen Douglas, northern Democratic Party
Define Insurrection
Rebellion
The _____ compromise was to constitutionally safeguard slavery in an attempt keep the Union from breaking apart.
Crittenden Compromise
List the first capital of the Confederacy.
Montgomery, Ala.
List the second capital of the Confederacy fro most of the Civil War.
Richmond, Va.
Who became the Confederate President?
Jefferson Davis
The Confederate Constitution was similar to the US Constitution ____ and _____ was protected.
Slavery and State Sovereignty
Fort ____ was federal property that must be protected but was bombed by Confederate forces.
Fort Sumter
_____ called for volunteers to put down the rebellion in southern states
Abraham Lincoln
Following the attack on Fort Sumter, the ____ secedes from the Union.
Upper South of Va., NC, Tenn., and Arkansas.
