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Chapter 18.1 Flashcards

1
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3 provisions of the Missouri Compromise

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  • Missouri enters union as slave state
  • rest of Louisiana Purchase is free and slave territory
  • slavery is not allowed above 36 30 line
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what did the wilmot proviso state

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slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territory acquired in the Mexican Cession

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3
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who passed wilmot proviso
where did it die
why

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House of Rep
Senate
South had more power

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4
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when people favor the interests of one region over the interests of the country as a whole

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sectionalism

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5
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what is popular sovereignty

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it is he popular vote on if slavery should exist in that state or territory

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6
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what issue dominated the Presidential Campaign of 1848

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neither the Democrats nor the Whigs took a clear position on slavery in the west

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7
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how many miles did the mexican war add to the US

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300,000

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8
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thousands of antislavery northerners formed a new political party called

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free-soil party

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9
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`did the free-soil party support the Wilmoy Proviso

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yes

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10
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who was the free-soil presidential candidate in 1848

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Martin Van Buren

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who was the whig party presidential candidate in 1848

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Zachary Taylor

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12
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who won the presidential election of 1848

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Zachary Taylor

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13
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what enabled California to quickly become a state

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California Gold Rush

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14
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Most Californians hoped it would enter the union as a ___ state, but that would upset the ___ between free and slave states

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free

balance

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15
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senator who spoke for anti-slavery northerners

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William Seward

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16
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senator from the south who spoke for many in the south

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John C. Calhoun

17
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senator from New Hampshire who was ___ slavery but argued in preserving the ___ and that was more important than any ____ differences

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against
union
regional

18
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when did the compromise of 1850 become law

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1850

19
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6 conditions of compromise of 1850

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  1. CA entered union as free state
  2. Mexican Cession divided into Utah and New Mexico
  3. Utah and New Mexico’s status on slavery-decided by pop sov
  4. Texas gives up land claims in New Mexico in exchange for money
  5. outlawed slave trade in nation’s capital, but not slavery
  6. produced new fugitive slave act
20
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what made it a federal crime to help runaway slaves

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fugitive slave act

21
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means runaway person

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fugitive

22
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before ____, slaveholders and their agents could take fugitive slaves

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US Commissioners

23
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could the accused fugitives testify in their defense

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no

24
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commissioner who rejected a slaveholder’s claim would receive __$

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5

25
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commissioners who returned a suspected fugitive to their slaveholder would receive __$

A

10

26
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how many fugitive slave cases were there

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343

27
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how many of those cases where the slave was considered free

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11

28
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where would slaves go to escape potential prosecution under Fugitive Slave Act

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Canada

29
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why did Fugitive Slave Act upset many northerners (2)

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lack of trial by jury

higher fee given to commissioners who returned fugitives

30
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two best-known slave writers

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Frederick Douglass

Sojourner Truth

31
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how did Truth’s narrative differ from most other slave narratives (2)

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central character was a woman

Truth had been slave in North, not south

32
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who wrote uncle toms cabin

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

33
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plot of Uncle toms cabin

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old slave named tom is separated from his wife and sold in deep south - become slave of cruel cotton planter in Louisiana

34
Q

how many copies were sold of uncles tom cabin

A

2 million

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