Chapter 15 A Divided Nation Flashcards
Many opposed slavery spreading to the Mexican cession, so Rep. Wilmot introduced the __________.
Wilmot Proviso
After winning the Mexican War in _____ the U.S. added 500 square mile called the ________.
1848
Mexican cession
What did the Wilmot Proviso do?
Banned slavery in the Mexican cession
The Wilmot Proviso failed. Why?
People chose sectionalism over Part Allegience.
Neither _____ nor ______ stood for slavery during the election of ______.
Democrats
Wigs
1848
During the election, what new party formed?
Free Soil Party
The Free Soil Party supported ______ and nominated _________ for president.
Wilmot Proviso
Van Buran
Who won the election of 1848?
Whig, Zachary Taylor
When the state of ______ reached the population needed for statehood the question of if would be _______ popped up.
California
Slave
Most of California _______ slavery, but if entered as free then the balance would be upset.
Opposed
What compromise did Henry Clay propose to settle the California Question?
Compromise of 1850
The _________was corrupt on enforcement.
Fugitive slave act
How did the Fugitive Slave Act enforce its rules?
Commissioner payed $10 for every returned slave
What 2 purposes did slave literature serve?
To gain sympathy & abolition
Educate the reality of slavery
__________ wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin shocking over _____ million people.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
2
Was the popular vote in the election of 1852 based on slavery or party allegiance?
Slavery
Who won by gaining support of southerners?
Democrat Franklin Pierce
Douglas proposed building a railroad from _______ to ________.
Chicago
Pacific Ocean
The railroad would require being built where?
Unorganized territory of LA purchase
_______ determined that LA purchase territory was a _____ territory.
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Free
Why did Douglas’s plan gain support?
Congress agreed to allow slavery
Douglas introduced the ___________ to eliminate the __________, allowing popular sovereignty to vote on slavery.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
Northerners were ________ when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in ______.
Outraged
1854
Because some people agreed with the Kansas-Nebraska Act the legislature was divided into what 2 parts?
1 pro
1 anti
A pro posey tried to attack anti-slaves but they __________.
Rioted the city
The riot by Brown was called _______.
Pattawatomic Massacre
Members of the of the Whigs ________, _________, and abolitionists formed the ________.
Democrats
Free-Soilers
Republican Party
Whig party fell due to KS-NE Act and ______ lost power.
Democrats
The remainder of Democrats & Whigs formed ________.
Know-Nothing Party
What democrat won the election of 1856?
James Buchanan
what slave sued for freedom after his owner brought him to live in a free state?
Dred Scott
According to the Dred Scott decision slaves weren’t ______ and couldn’t _______.
citizens
sue in court
Since Scott returned to a slave state he wasn’t _______.
free
The Supreme Court declared ___________ unconstitutional because no one could be denied of ____,________, and ________.
Missouri Compromise
life, liberty, property
_______ led a raid on the federal arsenal of ________.
John Brown
Harper’s Ferry
What effects did Brown’s raid cause?
South afraid of raids & North disappointed in violence
Representative _______ won the election of 1860 by 40% popular vote and ________ electoral votes.
Lincoln
180
What did Lincoln promise the U.S. about slavery?
it would not spread farther than the south
How did the south react to Lincoln’s ban on slavery past the south?
the seceded from the Union
What did the south form and who was their president?
Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Lincoln felt the South’s secession was unconstitutional, but the south believed what?
State’s rights stronger than federal power
