Chatptee 16 Flashcards
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
Proposal to ban slavery
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 fugative slave act
Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be, what two things?
Conductor and would be put in jail
What did the enforcement of this act do?
Caused more anger in. The North
What increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the U.S.?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is popular sovereignty?
Letting people to decide forthe the selfs
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 of Massachusetts lashed out against slavery Charles Summer
What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to
become?
Republican Party
Who did Dred Scott sue?
The Sandford family
What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?
Divided it even more
Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled on the Dred Scott case?
Roger B James
According to the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Constitution do?
Protected slavery
What Senate race became the center of national attention?
Lincoln vs Douglass
What party was each candidate a part of in the Lincoln-Douglas race?
Abraham R, Stephen D
What was the main topic of the debates during the Lincoln-Douglas election?
Stop the spread of slavery
Who won the Illinois Senate race between Lincoln and Douglas?
Douglass
What was the name of the event when John Brown led men to attack a weapon
storage facility?
Raid on Harpers Ferry
What was Brown hoping to start at the Raid on Harpers Ferry?
Start a rebellion against slaveholders
After this event, what became a rallying point for many abolitionists?
Brown was executed
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina