Chapter 4 Section 1

Question 0

What did southerners want from the 1820 Compromise?

Answer 0

They wanted it to apply to territories west of the Louisiana Purchase, thus ensuring that California would become a slave state

Question 1

California on the issue of slavery

Answer 1

Constitution forbade slavery angering southerners

Question 2

Border dispute involving Texas

Answer 2

Texas claimed the eastern half of the New Mexico Territory, where the issue of slavery hadn’t been settled

South threatened to succeed

Question 3

Daniel Webster

Answer 3

Supported Clay’s Compromise of 1850

Left senate before Douglas could engineer passage of all the bill’s provisions

Question 4

John C. Calhoun

Answer 4

Opposed the compromise of 1850

He died 2 months after it was proposed

Question 5

Compromise of 1850

Answer 5

To please North, it provided that California be admitted to Union as a free state

To please South, it proposed a new and more effective fugitive slave law

For both, it allowed popular sovereignty

Question 6

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 6

Right to vote for or against slavery, for residents of the New Mexico and Utah territories

Question 7

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 7

Alleged fugitive slaves were not a entitled to a trial by jury
Anyone convicted of helping a fugitive was liable for a fine of $1000 and imprisonment for up to 6 months

Question 8

“Vigilance Communities”

Answer 8

Northerns resisted it by organizing “Vigilance Communities” to send endangered African Americans to safety in Canada

Question 9

Underground Railroad

Answer 9

A system of escape routes used by fugitives

Question 10

How did the Underground Railroad operate?

Answer 10

Conductors hid fugitives, provided them with food and clothing, and escorted them to the next station. Once they reached the North, many choose to stay. Others journeyed to Canada to be completely out of reach of their owners.

Question 11

Harriet Tubman

Answer 11

One of the most famous conductors that was born a slave

Fearing that she was being sold made a break for freedom to Philadelphia

Made 19 trip freeing 300 slaves

Question 12

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 12

Published her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Expresses her lifetime hatred of slavery

Question 13

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 13

stressed that slavery was not just a political contest, but also a great moral struggle

Stirred Northern abolitionists to increase their protests against Fugitive Slave Acts

Question 14

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 14

Divided territory into Nebraska in the north and Kansas in the south

Bill would repeal Missouri Compromise and establish popular sovereignty for both territories

North was against it and south was for it

Question 15

Senator Charles Sumner

Answer 15

Delivered an impassioned speech in the Senate, entitled “The Crime Against Kansas”

Verbally attacked the South and slavery, singling out Senator Andrew P. Butler

Question 16

Franklin Pierce

Answer 16

He won producing a victory for the Democratic candidate

Question 17

What completed the demise of the Whigs?

Answer 17

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 18

Know- Nothing Party

Answer 18

Supported nativism, the favoring of native-born people over immigrants

Torn on the issue of slavery

Question 19

Liberty Party

Answer 19

Formed for the purpose of pursuing the cause of abolition by passing new laws

Question 20

Free-Soil Party

Answer 20

Opposed extension of slavery into the territories

Objected to slavery’s competition with free workers

Question 21

Republican Party

Answer 21

Opposed Kansas-Nebraska Act and in keeping slavery out of the territories

Hoped to resurrect Missouri Compromise

John C. Frémont

Question 22

Stephen Douglas

Answer 22

“Little Giant”
Well known 2 term senator with an outstanding record and a large campaign chest

Believed in popular sovereignty

Won

Question 23

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 23

Self-educated and elected to 1 term of congress

Believed that slavery was immoral but didn’t expect individuals to give up slavey unless Congress abolished slavery with an amendment

Question 24

Harper’s Ferry

Answer 24

Aim was to seize the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia and start a general slave uprising

Uprising never happened because it was put down by troops

John Brown was tried and killed

Question 25

1860 Election

Answer 25

Lincoln(Republican) pledged to halt expansion of slavery, but ensured the Southerners that he wouldn’t interfere with their slaves

Douglas-popular sovereignty (north democrats)
Breckinridge- support Dred Scott decision (south democrats)

Lincoln Won

Question 26

Confederacy

Answer 26

Was formed by the secessionist states that met in Montgomery, Alabama

Created a constitution like the United States but it “protected and recognized” slavery in new territories

Question 27

Jefferson Davis

Answer 27

Elected president of confederacy