Chapter 16 Study Guide Flashcards
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?
The Fugitive Slave Act
Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be, what two things?
Fined or Imprisoned
What did the enforcement of this act do?
Caused more anger in the north
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 aganist those for slavery
What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to
become?
Republican Party
Who did Dred Scott sue?
His owner
What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?
Divided the nation
Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled on the Dred Scott case?
Roger B. Taney
What Senate race became the center of national attention?
Illinois
What party was each candidate a part of?
Republican- Abraham Lincoln
Democrat- Stephen A. Douglas
What was the main topic of the debates during that election?
Slavery
Who won the Illinois Senate race?
Douglas
What was the name of the event when John Brown led men to attack a weapon
storage facility?
The Raid on Harpers Ferry
What was Brown hoping to start at the Raid on Harpers Ferry?
Rebellion aganist slaveholders by arming slaves
After this event, what became a rallying cry for many abolitionists?
Browns death
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?
With the belief in states rights
Who was the first President of the CSA?
Lincoln
Whose hands did President Lincoln say the possibility of war was in?
In the peoples hands
Confederate guns opened fire on what on April 12, 1861?
Fort Sumer
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
A proposal that would ban slavery in any lands that the US aquired from Mexico, but never passed
What increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the U.S.?
Kansas- Nebraska Act
According to the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Constitution do?
Protected slavery
What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?
The Capture of Fort Sumter
Who was the first President of the CSA?
Jefferson Davis
