Chapter 16 Flashcards
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
Proposal that would ban slavery in any lands that the US acquired from Mexico ( never got 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?
Fugitive Salve Act
Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be, what two things?
Fined and/or inprisoned
What did the enforcement of this act do?
Angered 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. Butlers cousin (Rep. Preston Brooks) walked into the Senate chamber and hit Sumner with a waking cane.
What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to
become?
Republican Party
Who did Dred Scott sue?
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
According to the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Constitution do?
stated that the constitution protected slavery
What Senate race became the center of national attention?
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas
What party was each candidate a part of in the Lincoln-Douglas race?
Republican: Lincoln
Democrat: 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?
Raid on Harpers Ferry
What was Brown hoping to start at the Raid on Harpers Ferry?
Tried to start a rebellion against slaveholders by arming slaves.
After the raid of Harpers ferry event, what became a rallying point for many abolitionists?
Executed of treason
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
SC
After seven states seceded, what was formed on Feb. 4, 1861?
Confederate States of America
How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?
With the 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 Sumter
What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
