Chapter 11 test Flashcards

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Texas

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Admitted as a slave state in 1845, thereby renewing the Congressional debate over the expansion of slavery

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2
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The doctrine of popular sovereignty argued that

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Citizens of new territories could decide the slavery issue

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Free Soil Party

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Formed in 1848 by antislavery Democrats and Whigs to halt the expansion of slavery into the territories

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4
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The Democrats lost the 1848 presidential election because

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The Free Soil Party divided the Democratic vote

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5
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Henry Clay

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Congressmen who proposed the Compromise of 1850

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The three following things were reactions to Clay’s compromise

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  1. Many northern members of Congress denied that the Constitution protected slavery
  2. John C. Calhoun warned that civil war would result if the North didn’t permit slavery to exist
  3. President Zachary Taylor opposed Clay’s compromise
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California

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Admitted as a free state as a part of the Compromise of 1850

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8
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Fugitive Slave Act

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Strengthened antislavery sentiment in the North due to strict enforcement

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Repealed the Missouri Compromise and replaced it with the doctrine of popular sovereignty in newly organized territories

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As a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Some antislavery forces reacted by helping antislavery families move to Kansas

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Kansas

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Territory that elected two governments- one proslavery and one antislavery- during the mid 1850s

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12
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The Republican Party was formed by

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Antislavery Whigs and Democrats, plus Free -Soldiers

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13
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Dred Scott Decision

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Ruled that slavery could not be banned in territories

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14
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The Dred Scott decision led abolitionists to

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Fear that slavery would expand into the territories

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15
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Freeport Doctrine

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Maintained that people in a territory could exclude slavery by refusing to pass the laws necessary to support slavery

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16
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The following three things resulted from the Lincoln Douglas debates

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  1. Douglas lost support amount southern slaveholders
  2. Douglas won the race for U.S. Senate
  3. The debates hurt Douglas’s chances of ever becoming president
17
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John Brown

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Abolitionist who led a raid on Haper’s Ferry

18
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Reactions John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry

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  1. Abolitionist hailed Brown a hero
  2. Many southern whites thought Brown’s sentence was justified
  3. Southern secessionists thought the hysteria helped their cause
19
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The first to secede from the Union was

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South Carolina