Chapter 14 Flashcards
Formal withdrawal from the union
Secession
The idea that political power belongs to people
Popular sovereignty
Formed by anti slavery northerners to support the Wilmot proviso
Free spoil party
California would join union as free state;rest of the Mexican cession would decide slavery issue by popular sovereignty; fugitive slave law would be strengthened
Compromise of 1850
made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas
Fugitive slave act
“We shall lie down pleasantly dreaming that people of Missouri are on the. We’ve of making their state free….”
Abraham Lincoln
“In my option it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed…”
Abraham Lincoln
Whigs joined this party in 1854
Republican
a political party united against spread of slavery in west
Republican
- Was Scott a citizen because only citizens can sue in court?
All african Americans whether slaves or free were not citizens under the constitution
- Did dividing on free soil make a slave free
Living on free soil did not change Scott’s status as a slave
- Was it constitutional for congress to prohibit slavery on Louisiana territory
The 5th amendment protection of property makes it unconstitutional for congress to ban slavery in any federal territory. This overturned Missouri compromise.
California became a free state because
Compromise of 1850 settled issue of slavery in Mexican cession.
Compromise of 1850
- Cali would enter union as free state
- In the rest of Mexican cession slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty
- Slave trade not slavery would end in nations capital
- A more effective fugitive slave law would be passed
- Settled most disputes between slave and free states
Influential anti slavery novel
Uncle toms cabin
