Chapter 16 Flashcards
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
Proposal that ended slavery in lands that us acquired from Mexico but never 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 slave act
Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be, what two things?
Killed or put in jail
What did the enforcement of the slave act do?
Caused anger in 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 in 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 Butlers cousin walked into senate chamber and beat sumner with cane
What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to
become?
Republican Party
Who did Dred Scott sue?
His slave holder Sanford family
What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?
Made it even more divided
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?
Support slavery
What Senate race became the center of national attention?
Lincoln and Douglas debates
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?
Stephen A 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?
Rebellion against Slaveholders
After this event, what became a rallying point for many abolitionists?
Brown was killed for Treason
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?
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?
People’s
Confederate guns opened fire on what on April 12, 1861?
Fort Sumter
What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?
Attack on fort Sumter
