Chapter 16 Flashcards
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
Proposal that would ban slavery in any land aquired from mexico
What was the name for the bills that dealt with slavery in the states added since the
Missouri Compromise?
Compermise 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 imprisioned
What did the enforcement of this 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
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?
Jhon brown
What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?
Senator charles sumer lashed out at pro slavery people
What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to
become
Soil party
Who did Dred Scott sue?
His owner
What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?
Divided it
Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled on the Dred Scott case?
Rodger b. Taney
According to the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Constitution do?
Would not allow dred scott to seu his owner
What Senate race became the center of national attention
Lincon v.s buchann
What party was each candidate a part of?
Soils party
What was the main topic of the debates during that election?
Slavery
What was the name of the event when John Brown led men to attack a weapon
storage facility?
Harpers ferry
What was Brown hoping to start at the Raid on Harpers Ferry?
Civil war
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South carolina
After seven states seceded, what was formed on Feb. 4, 1861?
Confedrate states of america
How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?
Belief in state rights
Who was the first President of the CSA?
Jefferson davis
