Chapter 14

Question 1

What is the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 1

In 1846, shortly after outbreak of the Mexican-American WAr. Congressman David Wilmot of Pennsylvania introduced this controversial amendment stating that any lands winning from Mexico would be closed to slavery.

Question 2

What is Popular Sovereignty?

Answer 2

The concept that the settlers of a newly organized territory have the right to decide whether r not to accept slavery.. Promoted as a solution to the slavery question, popular sovereignty became a fiasco in Kansas during the 1850s.

Question 3

What is the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 3

This series of five congressional statues temporarily calmed the sectional crisis. Among other things, the comprise made California a free state, ended the slave trade in the District of Columbia. and strengthened the fugitive slave law..

Question 4

What is the Fugitive Slave law?

Answer 4

Passed in 1850, this federal law made it easier for slave owners to recapture runaway slaves; it also made it easier for kidnappers to take free blacks. The law became an object of hatred in the North.

Question 5

What is the Kansas- Nebraska Act?

Answer 5

The 1854 act repealed, the Missouri Comprise split the Louisiana Purchase into two territories, and allowed its settlers to accept or reject slavery by popular sovereignty. This act enflamed the slavery issue and led opponents to form Republican party

Question 6

What is the Ostend Manifesto?

Answer 6

Written by American officials in 1854, this secret memo- later dubbed a “manifesto” -urged the acquisition of Cuba by any means necessary. When it became public, Northerners