Chapter 16 Flashcards
Who won the Election of 1848?
Zachary Taylor
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
Proposal to ban all slavery in the land gained from Mexico
What required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves in 1850?
The fugitive slave act
Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be, what two things?
Fined or imprisoned
What did the enforcement of this act do?
Angered the north
What increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the U.S.?
Kansas-Nebraska act
What is popular sovereignty?
Letting the people decide on a important issue
Which territory was the first to have blood shed over slavery?
Kansas
Who was the violent abolitionist that believed God had chosen him to end slavery?
John Brown
What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?
After senator summer lashed out against senator Butler Butler’s cousin rep.Preston brooks beat summer with a cane
What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to become?
The Republicans
Who did Dred Scott sue?
His former owner
What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?
Divides the nation
Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled on the Dred Scott case?
Rogers Taney
According to the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Constitution do?
Support slavery
What Senate race became the center of national attention?
Lincoln vs Douglas
What party was each candidate a part of?
Republicans- Lincoln
Democrats - Douglas
What was the main topic of the debates during that election?
Slavery
Who won the Illinois Senate race?
Douglas
What was the name of the event when John Brown led men to attack a weapon storage facility?
The raid on harpers ferry
What was Brown hoping to start at the Raid on Harpers Ferry?
Slave revolution
After this event, what became a rallying cry for many abolitionists?
Browns death
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
After seven states seceded, what was formed on Feb. 4, 1861?
The CSA
How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?
They felt their states righted were being infringed on
Who was the first President of the CSA?
Jefferson Davis
Whose hands did President Lincoln say the possibility of war was in?
The people
Confederate guns opened fire on what on April 12, 1861?
Fort sumpter
What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?
The fort sumpter attack
