Test 5.12.15 Flashcards
The Willmot Proviso, if adopted would have
Prohibit slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico
According to popular sovereignty, the question of slavery in territories would be determined by
The vote of the people
Free spoilers condemned slavery because
It destroyed chances of free white workers to rise to self employment
By 1850 the south
Was relatively well off politically and economically
Harriet Tubman
By helping slaves escape to Canada
In his seventh of March speech Daniel Webster
Called for a new more stringent fugitive slave law
In the compromise of 1850 slavery in New Mexico and Utah was decided by
Popular sovereignty
The most alarming aspect of the compromise of 1850 to northerners
Fugitive slave law
Many northern states passed personal liberty laws in response to
Runaway slaves
Regarding the compromise of 1850 the south made a tactical blunder by demanding
Strong fugitive slave law
The United States scheme to gain control of Cuba was stopped when
Northern free soilers fiercely protested the effort
Most American leaders believed that the only way to keep the new pacific coast territories from breaking away was to
To construct a transcontinental railroad
Senator Steven Douglas proposed the idea of slavery in the Kansas Nebraska territory be decided by
Popular sovereignty
The U.S. victory in the Mexican war resulted in
All of the above
One of senator Douglass mistakes in proposing the Kansas Nebraska act was
Underestimating the depth of northern opposition to the spread of slavery
Uncle toms cabin may be described as
A powerful political force
Lecompten constitution
Pro slavery
New England immigrant aid society
anti slavery free soilers
The Lecompetn Constitution proposed that Kansas
Would have black bondage regardless whether the document was approved or not
The clash between Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner revealed
The fact that passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed
The central plank of the no nothing party in the 1856 election was
Nativism
What did northerners hate about the Dred Scott decision
Congress did not have any power to prohibit so slavery I any territory
As a result of the panic of 1857 the south
Believed that Chiron was king
Stephen Douglas argued in his free port doctrine
That territorial legislatures could keep slavery out of the territories
After John Brown’s raid on Harper’s fairy the south concluded that
The north was dominated by Brown living republicans
When Lincoln won the 1860 election people in south Carolina
Rejoiced because it gave them excuse to succeed
Lame duck president believed that the constitution didn’t authorize
His power to force states not to succeed
Lincoln opposed the Crittenden compromise because
The compromise could allow slavery to expand into Latin America
Secessionist supported leaving the union because
All of the above
Immense debt owed to northern creditors by the south was
Repuiated by the south
