road to civil war Flashcards
original 11 free states
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Vermont Illinois Ohio
Indiana
Original 11
slave states
Georgia
Delaware
Virginia North
Carolina South
Carolina
Maryland
Mississippi
Alabama Tennessee
Louisiana
Kentucky
what was this 36 30 line
Alliance drawn across the Louisiana territory anything north of the line was free and anything south of the line was slave
What was the Wilmont proviso
A bill proposed by John Wilmont to ban slavery in the Mexican cession
What was the Kansas Nebraska act
Gave popular sovereignty to Kansas and Nebraska territories
Who beat senator Charles Sumner and why
He made a speech criticizing senator Butler so congressman Preston brooks beach somewhere with a cane
Explain Dred Scott V Stanford
reinforced the legal status of slave
Stated that per the constitution congress have no authority to make laws in the territories
Who replaced Senator Henry Clay
Stephen Douglas of Illinois
free soiler’s candidate for president in 1848
Martin Van Buren
Which senator threatened secession if north did not agree that slaves were property
John C Calhoun
Explain the compromise of 1850
allowed California to enter the union as a free state
divided Mexican cession into Utah and New Mexico and gave them popular sovereignty
and did slave trade in Washington DC
strict fugitive slave law
settled border dispute between Texas and New Mexico
Who led the attack against the border ruffians at Potawatomi creek
John brown
Who is the republican candidate for president in 1856
John C Fremont
Winner of the presidential election in 1856
James Buchanan
Who is the republican candidate for the election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln
