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?
Compromise 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 the fugitive slave act do
Caused more anger in the North
What increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the U.S.?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is popular sovereignty?
Letting people decide for themselves about an isssue
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 against those for slavery,including Andrew P. Butler
What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to
become?
Republican Party
Who did Dred Scott sue?
His owners family
What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?
Divided the nation even more
Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled on the Dred Scott case?
Cheif Justice Roger B. Taney
According to the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Constitution do?
Stated that the constitution protected slavery
What Senate race became the center of national attention?
Licolin and Douglas debates
What party was each candidate a part of?
Abraham- republican
Douglas - democratic
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?
He hooed to start a rebellion against slaveholders
After this event, what became a rallying cry for many abolitionists?
When brown wAs executed of treason and his death
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
A proposal that would ban slavery in any lands that the US acquired from Mexico,but never passed.
After seven states seceded , what was formed on Feb. 4th 1861
Delegates met to form a new nation and a new government called the confederate states of America
How did the confederate states of America justify secession?
With the belief in states rights
Who was the first president of the CSA
Jefferson Davis
Whose hands did Pesident Lincoln say the possibility of war was in
The peoples hands
Confederate guns opened fire on what on April 12 1861
Fort Sumter
What event marked the beginning of the Civil War ?
The battle at Fort Sumter
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
