Sectional Conflict Notes

Question 1

Abolitionists

Answer 1

People against slavery

Question 2

Free-Soil Party

Answer 2

They opposed the spread of slavery into western territories

Question 3

Conscience Whigs

Answer 3

Northers opposed to slavery and families who have been pro abolition for a long time

Question 4

Secession

Answer 4

The process of taking states out of the Union

Question 5

The Wilmot Proviso

Answer 5

A proposal to prohibit slavery in territories acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War

Question 6

David Wilmot

Answer 6

A Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from PA; proposed the Proviso

Question 7

Southerners are upset…

Answer 7

…they profit off of slavery (agrarian)

Question 8

Northerners are happy…

Answer 8

…they like abolition (industrial)

Question 9

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 9

The idea that citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide if they want to permit slavery or not

Question 10

Where did Popular Sovereignty happen?

Answer 10

Along a regional line, not a party line

Question 11

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 11

A book that changed Northern’s perception of African Americans and slavery as a whol

Question 12

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 12

A book that changed Northern’s perception of African Americans and slavery as a whol

Question 13

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 13

An American abolitionist and author who is best known for Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 14

Many different _______ helped with the abolitionist movement.

Answer 14

people; races, genders, ages

Question 15

Fugitive Slave Acts

Answer 15

Allowed for the seizure and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state into another or federal territory.

Question 16

Who didn’t respect the Fugitive Slave Acts?

Answer 16

Free States, which further divided the country

Question 17

The Underground Railroad

Answer 17

An informal but well-organized system that helped thousands of enslaved persons escape

Question 18

The Kansas Nebraska Act

Answer 18

Repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed popular sovereignty

Question 19

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act cause?

Answer 19

A violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas”

Question 20

“Bleeding Kansas”

Answer 20

Pro-slavery and anti-slavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote for the Kansas-Nebraska Act. They began fighting, hence the name.

Question 21

Harriet Tubman

Answer 21

An escaped enslaved person who was a “conductor” of the Underground Railroad. She was also a nurse, a Union spy, and a women’s suffrage supporter.

Question 22

“An American who fought for freedom”

Answer 22

Harriet Tubman

Question 23

The Caning of Charles Sumner

Answer 23

On May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks (a pro slavery Democrat from SC) used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner (a pro abolition Republican from Mass)

Question 24

Republicans: _____ Democrats: ____

Answer 24

Generally more pro abolition; generally more pro slavery

Question 25

Lecompton Constitution(1857)

Answer 25

A proposed state constitution crafted by pro-slavery advocates of Kansas statehood. It contained clauses protecting slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks, and it added to the frictions leading up to the U.S. Civil War.

Question 26

Crittenden’s Compromise

Answer 26

It proposed several amendments to the Constitution concerning slavery issues

Question 27

The Dred Scott Decision

Answer 27

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on March 6, 1857, that having lived in a free territory and state did not entitle an enslaved person, Dred Scott, to his freedom

Question 28

John Brown’s Raid

Answer 28

On Harpers Ferry; was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, in October of 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern States by taking over the US arsenal at Harpers Ferry VA. John Brown died after the raid but was captured during it

Question 29

What happened after Dred Scott attempted to purchase his freedom from Irene Emerson?

Answer 29

She denied the request and Dred Scott decided to sue.

Question 30

After the court declared Scott a free man in 1850…

Answer 30

…the Missouri Supreme Court reverses the decision two years later

Question 31

What happened after Irene gave land to her brother?

Answer 31

Dred Scott sues again; becomes Supreme Court “Scott v. Sandford”.

Question 32

Effects of the Civil War

Answer 32

Emancipation Proclamation; Freed slaves but they aren’t treated well,