Chapter 8 review Flashcards
Why did Polk believe no one would take enslaved people to the Southwest?
Climate not support plantations that made slavery profitable
Why did people go to California?
Gold discovered
What was the original purpose of the Gadsden Purchase?
Create a route for the railroad
Why did Northerners head to Kansas after the Kansas Nebraska Act was passed?
To create an antislavery majority
What were the Know-Nothings?
anti-Catholic and nativist
By rejecting the Lecompton Constitution, Kansas voters rejected what in their state?
Slavery
What did Crittenden’s Compromise propose?
Extend Missouri Compromise line all way to California
What did Lincoln tell the Southern states in his inaugural address?
Not interfere with slavery where it already exists
Why did Lincoln want to prevent Maryland from seceding?
D.C. would be surrounded by Confederate territory
What would the Wilmot Proviso have done if it had passed?
Prohibited slavery in territory from Mexico
Why did Free Soil members oppose slavery?
Hard for free men to find work
Why did Henry Clay group his resolutions in pairs in the Compromise of 1850?
Offered concessions to both sides
Why did the Whig and American parties dissolve?
Split over the slavery issue
Why was Charles Sumner caned?
Accused other senators of forcing Kansas to be a slave state
Who is the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
