Chapter 16 Flashcards
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
A proposal that would ban slavery in any lands that 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?
Compromise of 1850
What required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves in 1850?
A fugitive slave could be fined on imprisoned
Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be, what two things?
Fined or imprisoned
What did the enforcement of this act do?
Kansas- Nebraska act
What increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the U.S.?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is popular sovereignty?
Letting ppl decide for themselves about slavery
Which territory was the first to have blood shed over slavery?
Kansas
Which territory was the first to have blood shed over slavery?
Senator Charles summers of lashed out against those for slavery
What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?
Butler cousin, ref Preston Brook, walked into the senate chamber and hit summers with a cane
What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to become?
Antis whigs
Who did Dred Scott sue?
He divided the nation even more
What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?
He decision basically stated that the constitution protected slavery
Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled on the Dred Scott case?
Lincoln and Douglas debates
According to the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Constitution do?
Senate race in lllionie became the center of national
What Senate race became the center of national attention?
Lincoln vs Stephen
What party was each candidate a part of in the Lincoln-Douglas race?
Douglas won a narrow victory in the election
What was the main topic of the debates during the Lincoln-Douglas election?
Lincoln lost this election but gained a positive national reputation
Who won the Illinois Senate race between Lincoln and Douglas?
John brown
What was the name of the event when John Brown led men to attack a weapon
storage facility?
He hoped to start a rebellion against slaveholder
What was Brown hoping to start at the Raid on Harpers Ferry?
Brown was executed of treason and his death became a rallying
After this event, what became a rallying point for many abolitionists?
Election of 1860
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
After seven states seceded, what was formed on Feb. 4, 1861?
A new national and a new gout caused the confederate state of American
How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?
Justified secession with the belief in state 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?
It in people hands
Confederate guns opened fire on what on April 12, 1861
The fort Sumter
