Chapter 16 Flashcards
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
A proposal what would band slavery
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?
Fugitive slave act
Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be, what two things?
Fined of imprisoned
What did the enforcement of this act do?
Increased the amount of territory open to slave holding
What increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the U.S.?
Kansas-Nebraska act
What is popular sovereignty?
Letting people decide by 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?
John brown
What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?
Charles lashed out against those for slavery
What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to
become?
Republican Party
Who did Dred Scott sue?
Stanford
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?
Roger b Taney
According to the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Constitution do?
Protected slavery
What Senate race became the center of national attention?
Illinois
What party was each candidate a part of?
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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?
Harpies fairy
What was Brown hoping to start at the Raid on Harpers Ferry?
To kill all slave owners
After this event, what became a rallying point for many abolitionists?
Confederate states of America
What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?
Attack of fort sumner
Confederate guns opened fire on what on April 12, 1861?
For summer
Whose hands did President Lincoln say the possibility of war was in?
Propels hands
Who was the first President of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?
States rights
