Chapter 16 Flashcards
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
An amendment to a bill put before the U.S. House of Representatives during the Mexican War.
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?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
What required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves in 1850?
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be, what two things?
Penalties or imprisonment.
What did the enforcement of this act do?
It caused non slaves to be put into slavery.
What increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the U.S.?
The Westward Expansion.
What is popular sovereignty?
Allowing the people to decide.
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?
Sumner was of Massachusetts and an abolitionist. He gave a speech about antislavery and verbally attacked Andrew Butler. Brooks who was a cousin of Butler, went to the Senate and hit Sumner with his cane.
What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to
become?
The Republican Party.
Who did Dred Scott sue?
His Owner.
What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?
It intensified national divisions over the issue of slavery.
Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled on the Dred Scott case?
Justice Roger Taney.
According to the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Constitution do?
It said that it protected slavery.
What Senate race became the center of national attention?
The Illinois Race.
What party was each candidate a part of?
The Republican Party.
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?
A Rebellion.
After this event, what became a rallying point for many abolitionists?
Browns Execution.
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina.
After seven states seceded, what was formed on Feb. 4, 1861?
Confederate States Of America.
How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?
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.
