Chapter 16 Flashcards
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
A proposal that would ban slavery in land the the US acquired from Mexico
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 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 imprisioned
What did the enforcement of this act do?
Anger people in the north
What increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the U.S.?
Kansas Nebraska act
What is popular sovereignty?
Where people decide for themselves if they want 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. Preston Brooks walking into the senator chamber and hit sumner with a cane
What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to
become?
The republican
Who did Dred Scott sue?
Sandford his owner
What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?
Divided it even more
Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled on the Dred Scott case?
Roger B Taney
According to the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Constitution do?
It protected slavery
What Senate race became the center of national attention?
Senate race in Illinois
What party was each candidate a part of in the Lincoln-Douglas race?
R-Abraham Lincoln
D- Stephen A Douglas
What was the main topic of the debates during the Lincoln-Douglas election?
Slavery
Who won the Illinois Senate race between Lincoln and Douglas?
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 hoped to start a rebellion against slave holders.
After this event, what became a rallying point for many abolitionists?
Browns Death
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
After seven states seceded, what was formed on Feb. 4, 1861?
Confederacy States of America
How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?
Belief in states rights
Who was the first President of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
Whose hands did President Lincoln say the possibility of war was in?
The people’s hands
Confederate guns opened fire on what on April 12, 1861?
Fort sumpter
What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?
The attack on fort sumpter
