Chapter 16 Flashcards
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
A proposal that would ban slavery in any lands that the US acquired from Mexico, but never passed
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?
The Fugitive Slave Act
Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be, what two things?
Fired or imprisoned
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 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 against those for slavery, including Andrew P. Butler’s cousin, Rep. Preston Brooks
What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to
become?
Republican Party
Who did Dred Scott sue?
His owner, Sandford
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?
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney