Conflict and Compromise Test Review Flashcards
MC: what balance did it keep
balance of power in the senate
MC: what territory did it deal with
Louisiana purchase
MC: what re the three parts of the Missouri compromise
36’30 Line
missouri as slave state
maine as free state
1850: who developed it
Henry Clay
1850: what territory did it deal with
mexican cession
1850: 5 parts of the compromise
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4. ended the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
5. settled a border dispute between Texas and New Mexico
- california entered the union
- split mexican cession into two
- fugitive slave act
FS: what was it and why did North object
everyone required to catch runaway slave, north felt as if they were apart of slave system
KN: who developed the compromise
Stephan Douglass
KN: Main points of KN act
- created kansas and nebraska from split territory
- slavery decided by popular sovereignty
KN: why did north have a problem with KN act
opened up slavery issue as it was banned for decades, repealed Missouri Compromise
UTC: what was it, who wrote it, why is it important
Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, showed harshness of slave life
BK: what happened when kansas tried voting on becoming a slave state
pro and anti slavery bands flooded into the state from Missouri
BK: how did it get the nickname the “Bleeding Kansas”
violence that took place between anti and pro slavery bands
DSC: 3 parts of DS case
- Dred Scott was a slave, therefore not a citizen
- African Americans were not considered citizens
- congress can’t limit slavery anywhere
DSC: It was called the worse court decision in history, why
divided the union and took away citizenship from the African Americans in the North
