chapter 13

Question 1

CW causes: slavery

Answer 1

a growing moral issue in the north, versus its defense and expansion in the south

Question 2

CW causes: constitutional disputes

Answer 2

over the nature of the federal Union and states rights

Question 3

CW causes: economic differences

Answer 3

between the industrializing north and the agricultural south over issues such as tariffs, banking, and internal improvements

Question 4

CW causes: Political blunders and extremism

Answer 4

on both sides, which some historians conclude resulted in an unnecessary war

Question 5

conflicts over status of territories

Answer 5

after Mexican war became focused on sectional differences in the late 1840s

Question 6

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 6

a proposal to ban slavery in the territories, which was opposed by the south

Question 7

Free-Soil party

Answer 7

a party that opposed allowing slavery in the territories (could keep slavery in the south but not the west , was California based) advocated for free homesteads and internal improvements

Question 8

southern positions

Answer 8

most whites int eh south views any attempts to restrict the expansions of slavery as a violation of their constitutional right to take and use their property as they wished

Question 9

popular sovereignty

SQUATTER SOVEREIGNTY

Answer 9

Lewis Cass proposed a compromise solution that soon won considerable support from both moderate northerners and moderate southerns

which allowed the people who settled the territory to decide whether to allow slavery or not

Question 10

Election of 1848

Answer 10

Lewis Cass- Democrat- Popular sovereignty
Zachary Taylor- Whig- No position on slavery
Van Buren- Free-soil- Opposed to slavery in territories
taylor won

Question 11

Compromise of 1850

Answer 11

• Admit California as a free state
• divide the remainder of the Mexican Cession into two territories
• give the land dispute between Texas and the new Mexico territory to the New territories (Texas then in public debt)
• ban slave trade in the district of columbia
• adopt new fugitive slave law

Question 12

The fugitive slave law

Answer 12

• track down runaway slaves
• place fugitive slave cases under the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal government
• deny the right of trial by jury

Question 13

The underground railroad

Answer 13

network of conductors and stations that helped escaped slaves reach freedom in the north or in canada

Question 14

Harriet Tubman

Answer 14

escaped slaves, made at least 19 trips into south to help some 300 slaves escape

Question 15

books on slavery

Answer 15

uncle toms cabin
the impending crisis of the south
south reaction: counterattacked by arguing that slavery was a positive good for slave and master alike

Question 16

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 16

Division of the Nebraska territory- divided into two parts” Kansas and Nebraska
popular sovereignty
repeal of the Missouri compromise- now slavery would be allowed over the Mason-Dixon line

Question 17

Election of 1852

Answer 17

Whig party nominated a candidate that attempted to ignore slavery issue ultimately led to its downfall

Question 18

Know-nothing party

Answer 18

navists party that opposed the influx of immigration, particularly Catholics, into the U.S.

Question 19

Republican party

Answer 19

party’s platform called for no expansion of slavery, free homestead, and a pro business protective tariff.

Question 20

Election of 1856

Answer 20

republican party did not win but showed they COULD win without a single southern states vote

Question 21

Dred Scott Case

Answer 21

a free slave lived two years in Wisconsin, went back to Missouri and was captured into slavery again. he sued saying that his time on free soil made him free too.

Question 22

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 22

supreme court case that ruled that African Americans were not citizens U.S. and has not right to sue in federal court. the decision also ruled that Congress did not have the power to deprive any person of property without due process law

Question 23

Lecompton constitution

Answer 23

proslavery state constitution for Kansas that was submitted to Congress in 1857. However, the constitution was rejected by Congress due to its lack of support of support from majority settlers

Question 24

breakup of the whig party

Answer 24

increasing tensions over slavery led to breakup of whig party, party’s attempt to ignore slavery led to downfall

Question 25

Stephen A. Douglas

Answer 25

senator from Illinois who sponsored Kansas-Nebraska act

Question 26

John C. Fremont

Answer 26

a senatore from California whow as nominated by he republican party for president in 1856

Question 27

Rodger Taney

Answer 27

Chef Justice on the Supreme Court who presided over Dred Scott case

Question 28

James Buchanan

Answer 28

president of the U.S. who was elected in 1856 and presided over the country during the lecompton constitution controversy and Dred Scott

Question 29

Lincoln- Douglas Debates

Answer 29

• Lincoln argued that slavery was morally wrong and should not be expanded into the territories
• Douglas argued that the decision to allow slavery in there territories should be left up to the people of the territory
• debates were widely publicized to establish Lincoln as a national figure

Question 30

Freeport doctrine

Answer 30

Lincoln challeneged Douglas to reconcile is support for popular sovereignty with the Dred Scott case. Douglas responded with what became known as the Freeport doctrine, which stated that slavery could not exist in a community if the local citizen did not pass laws to support it.

Question 31

Road to secession

Answer 31

• John brownish raid on harpers ferry
• the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860
• the secession of southern states

Question 32

Election of 1860

Answer 32

Lincoln (Republican)- antislavery, protective tariff, free land for homesteaders
Douglas (Northern Democrat)- popular sovereignty, enforcement of the FSL
Breckenridge (southern Democrat)- unrestricted extension of slavery in territories, annexation of Cuba
Bell (Constitutional Union)- enforcement of the laws and the constitution, preservation of the union

Question 33

Secession Dates:

Answer 33

12/20/1860: south Carolina secedes front he union
1/9/1861: Mississippi secedes from the union
1/10/1861: Florida secedes from the union
1/11/1861: Alabama secedes
1/19/1861: Louisiana secedes
1/29/1861: Kansas secedes