Chapter 16 Flashcards
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
A proposal that would ban slavery in any lands that the US aquifer 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?
Fined 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?
Allowing people to 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 those against slavery including Andrew P. Butler. Butler’s cousin, Rep. Preston Brooks, walked into the senate chamber and beat Sumner with a cane.
What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to
become?
The Republican Party
Who did Dred Scott sue?
His owner, Standford
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
According to the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Constitution do?
Protect slavery
What Senate race became the center of national attention?
Lincoln and Douglas Debates
What party was each candidate a part of?
Abe - Republican
Stephan A. Douglas - 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 on Harper’s Ferry
What was Brown hoping to start at the Raid on Harpers Ferry?
A rebellion against slaveholders by arming slaves
After this event, what became a rallying point for many abolitionists?
Brown’s death (he was executed)
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
After seven states seceded, what was formed on Feb. 4, 1861?
the Confederate States of America
How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?
They justified secession with the belief in 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 people’s
Confederate guns opened fire on what on April 12, 1861?
Fort Sumter
What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?
the Fort Sumter attack
