Chapter 16 Flashcards
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
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Who won the Election of 1848?
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What was the name for the bills that dealt with slavery in the states added since the
Missouri Compromise?
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What required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves in 1850?
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Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be, what two things?
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What did the enforcement of this act do?
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What increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the U.S.?
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What is popular sovereignty?
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Which territory was the first to have blood shed over slavery?
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Who was the violent abolitionist that believed God had chosen him to end slavery?
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What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?
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What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to
become?
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Who did Dred Scott sue?
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What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?
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Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled on the Dred Scott case?
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According to the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Constitution do?
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What Senate race became the center of national attention?
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What party was each candidate a part of in the Lincoln-Douglas race?
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What was the main topic of the debates during the Lincoln-Douglas election?
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Who won the Illinois Senate race between Lincoln and Douglas?
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What was the name of the event when John Brown led men to attack a weapon
storage facility?
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What was Brown hoping to start at the Raid on Harpers Ferry?
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After this event, what became a rallying point for many abolitionists?
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What was the first state to secede from the Union?
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After seven states seceded, what was formed on Feb. 4, 1861?
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How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?
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Who was the first President of the Confederate States of America?
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Whose hands did President Lincoln say the possibility of war was in?
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Confederate guns opened fire on what on April 12, 1861?
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What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?
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