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