Chapter 16 Flashcards
Who won the Election of 1848?
Zachary taylor
What was the name for the bills that dealt with slavery in the states added since the
Missouri Compromise?
Comprimise of 1850
What required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves in 1850?
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?
Caused many people in the north to get angry
What increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the U.S.?
Kansas-nebraska act
What is popular sovereignty?
It let people decide about an 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?
Senator Charles Sumner lashed out on anyone who supported slavery and was beaten by Rep. Preston brooks with a cane
What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to
become?
They formed the Republican Party
Who did Dred Scott sue?
His owner
What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?
Tore more apart than it was
Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled on the Dred Scott case?
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney
According to the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Constitution do?
It said dred scott was a slave and was owned
What Senate race became the center of national attention?
Senate race in illinois
What party was each candidate a part of?
A.L.-republican,S.D.-democrat
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 of Harper Ferry
What was Brown hoping to start at the Raid on Harpers Ferry?
To start a reblleion against slaveholders
After this event, what became a rallying cry for many abolitionists?
John Browns execution
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
After seven states seceded, what was formed on Feb. 4, 1861?
Confederate States Of America
How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?
With the states’ rights
Who was the first President of the CSA?
Jefferson Davis
Whose hands did President Lincoln say the possibility of war was in?
The C.S.A hands
Confederate guns opened fire on what on April 12, 1861?
Fort Sumter
What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?
The atrack on fort sumter
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
A proposal that never got passed that said that any land america got from mexico would be slave free
