Chapter 15 Flashcards
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What is the Republican Party?
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A political party formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery
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What is the meaning of popular sovereignty?
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A system in which issues are decided by the citizenry or voters
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What is the free soil party?
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A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery
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What is the know-nothing party?
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An anti-immigrant party formed in the 1850’s
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What does it mean to secede?
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To withdraw
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What are state’s rights?
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An idea that the states have certain rights that the federal government cannot overrule
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What are the confederate states of America?
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The confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the union
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What is an uprising?
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A rebellion
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What does it mean to enlist?
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To join the armed forces
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What does it mean to emancipate?
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To free
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What is income tax?
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Tax on earnings
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What does it mean to ratify?
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To approve
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What is an abolition?
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The movement to stop slavery
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Did the north or the south have more industry and commerce?
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The north
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Were the farms in the north big or small?
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Small
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Were the cities growing or shrinking?
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Growing
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What connected the East and West in the North?
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Railroads
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What did the north think about slavery?
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Some thought it was immortal
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What did wage workers fear?
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Wage workers feared they would be replaced by slaves
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Did the south have more industry or agriculture?
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More agriculture
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Who dominated in the South?
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White plantation owners
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What did the South invest in?
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Land and slaves
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What was most of the population in the South?
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Poor farmers
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What made poor farmers feel superior?
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Slavery
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What justified slavery in the South? (3 reasons)
A.) whites are better than African- Americans
B.) whites introduced slaves to Christianity
C.) the slaves would have food, clothing, and shelter
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Why was the Wilmot Proviso thought of?
The fear of extending slavery into the newly gained land from Mexico
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What did the Wilmot Proviso say?
To forbid slavery in the land gained from Mexico
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Did the Wilmot Proviso pass?
No
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What political party did the Wilmot Proviso being together?
The free soil party
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What did the free soil party want?
To stop slavery from expanding
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How did the free soil party effect politics?
The free soil party made slavery a key issue in politics.
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What did California make the south fear?
Losing equality in the senate
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Did the compromise of 1850 bring peace?
No
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Why was the compromise of 1850 created?
To deal with California
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What did the compromise of 1850 bring for the North?
California would enter as a free state, no Slavs trade in Washington D.C.
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What did the compromise of 1850 bring for the South?
For the South, no slave laws would be in the land won from Mexico, will pass a strong law to help slave owners
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Was the compromise of 1850 passed?
Yes
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What did the fugitive slave act say?
That accused fugitives could be held without an arrest warrant and they had no right for a jury trial
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Who ruled on each case for the fugitive slave act?
The federal commissioner
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What compromise was the fugitive slave act part of?
The compromise of 1850
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Why did the South like the Fugitive Slave act?
Because they thought slaves were property
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What did the North think about the fugitive slave act?
The North did not support the act because it required them to recapture runaway slaves
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What did the Kansas-Nebraska act propose?
To divide the territory into two parts
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What was used to decide if Kansas and Nebraska would be a slave or a free state?
Popular sovereignty
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Did the Kansas-Nebraska act pass?
Yes
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What was the nickname for the Kansas territory?
"Bleeding Kansas"
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What happened after Missouri came and voted illegally?
Kansas was filled with proslavery representatives
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Who came through Lawrence, Kansas?
A proslavery mob
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What was the sack of Lawrence?
When a proslavery mob came through Lawrence, Kansas
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How long did the civil war break out in Kansas?
For three years
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Who created the Republican Party?
Anti-slavery Northerners after Preston Brooks attacked Senator Senator Charles Sumner with his can until he was unconscious, because Summer insulted his cousin.
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Who wrote Uncle Toms's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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What did Uncle Tom's Cabin say about slavery?
It told people in the North how bad slavery was after the Fugitive Slave Act
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What act caused a political crisis for the Whig Party?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Why was the Whig party formed?
To apples Andrew Jackson
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What had the Kansas-Nebraska act done to the Whig Party?
It had torn the party into two factions, North against the act, South for it
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Who won Maryland in the election of 1856?
Fillmore
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Who were the two people running for President in the North for the election of 1856?
Buchmann vs. Fremont
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Who was running for President in the South for the election of 1856?
Buchmann vs. Fillmore
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Who won the election of 1856 in the North?
Buchmann won against Fremont
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How many states did Fremont win in the North for the election of 1856?
Eleven
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Where did Dred Scott get enslaved after he had been free?
Missouri
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What did Dred Scott do after his owner died?
He argued to be a free man because he was once free
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What got taken to the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case?
His family tried to sue for their freedom
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Did the court agree with Dred Scott?
No
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What was Roger B. Taney's reasoning for why Dred Scott couldn't sue?
Because he was not a U.S. citizen
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What did Taney say banning slavery would violate?
He said it would violate a slaveholder's property rights, which were protected by the fifth amendment.
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What did the Republicans charge the Democrats for?
Republicans charged that the Democrats wanted to legalise slavery not only in all U.S. Territories, but in all the states
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Who did Abraham Lincoln challenge for a U.S. Senate seat?
Douglass
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What did Lincoln and Douglas debate about?
Te expansion of slavery
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What was Lincoln's view in slavery?
He thought it was a political wrong and suggested it did not end but it did stop expanding
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What did Douglas think of slavery?
He agreed to prevent the expansion of slavery but he thought popular sovereignty was the best way
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What did John Brown do?
He tried to gather the weapons at Harpers Ferry but got caught
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What was John Brown's reason for capturing the weapons at Harper's Ferry?
He wanted to provoke a slavery uprising
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Where was Harper's Ferry?
Virginia
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Why did the Democratic Party split?
The southerners wanted the party to defend slavery in the party's platform but the Northerners wanted the platform to support popular sovereignty as a way if deciding whether a territory became a free or slave state
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What was a party's platform?
A statement of beliefs
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Who won the platform vote when the Democratic Party split?
The Northerners won the platform vote
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When did many Southerners leave the Democratic Party?
When the Northerners won the platform vote, but before the election of 1860
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Who was the Northern Democratic candidate for the election of 1860 and what did he support?
Stephen A. Douglas supported popular sovereignty
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Who was the southern democratic representative for the election of 1860 and what did he support?
John Breckinridge supported slavery
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Who did the Republicans nominate for the election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
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Who did the constitutional party nominate for the election of 1860 and what did he support?
John Bell wanted to preserve the union
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What was the South's reason for why the could leave the union?
They said since they voluntarily joined the union, they could voluntarily leave it
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What was the first state to secede from the nation?
South Carolina
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What were the other states that seceded from the union?
Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas joined the confederacy
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Did the confederate states of America make their own Constitution or Bill of Rights?
They made their own constitution
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What did the confederate states of America expect in response to them leaving the union?
A war
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What did the Northerners think of the South seceding?
The North thought it was unconstitutional.
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What would happen if the secession of the South was permitted?
The country would become very weak
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What did the South suspect the North was taking advantage of?
Southerners thought the North intended to use their majority to force the South to abolish slavery
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What did the Crittenden compromise propose?
It proposed that slavery should be protected South of the line established in the Missouri compromise, that congress should not abolish slavery in a free state, and the federal government should compensate the owners of fugitive slaves
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Did the Crittenden compromise pass or not? Why or why not?
The compromise did not pass because every other compromise enraged one section of the country
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Who competed for the support of the North I'm re election of 1860v
Lincoln and Douglas
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Who competed for votes in the south for the election of 1860?
Breckinridge and Bell
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Who won the election of 1860?
Lincoln
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What did Lincoln do for his inauguration?
He took the oath of office
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What did Lincoln say to calm the South?
He said he had no intention of abolishing slavery
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What did Lincoln say he would do with slavery?
He said he did not want to invade the South but he would not abandon the government forts that stood on Southern soil
