The Nation Splits Quiz Flashcards
What is an Abolitionist?
Somebody who wanted to abolish slavery.
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stow
What did Uncle Tom’s Cabin depict?
The cruelties of slavery, though some thought that it was overdramatized.
How did the North and South feel about Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
It changed the way northerners felt about slavery and southerners were outraged by it.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
A law requiring all citizens, both northern & southern, to help catch and return runaway slaves
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854
An Act proposed by Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas and it voids (declares that it is not valid or legally binding) the Missouri Compromise.
1. Louisiana Purchase divided into 2 territories Kansas and Nebraska
2. Popular sovereignty would be used to decide if slavery would be allowed in these territories.
What did the Missouri Compromise do?
- Made Maine a free state and Missouri a slave state.
- Slavery would be outlawed in any new state north of Missouri’s southern border.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
He was a supporter of popular sovereignty and he was the Illinois Senator who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who was John Brown?
He tried to raid the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry in Virginia. He was a hero in the north but hated by the Southerners as he was a strong abolitionist.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
When popular sovereignty caused a small scale civil war in Kansas
What was the Dred Scott Decision?
A decision where a slave (Dred Scott) spent time in a free territory and went to court to say that he was free now because of it. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney wrote the collective opinion and claimed that Scott and his wife were property and therefore could not sue.
What is popular sovereignty?
When the people in a territory decide whether or not to allow slavery
What was the Compromise of 1850?
- California becomes a free state
- Popular sovereignty would be used to decide if slavery would be allowed in New Mexico and Utah
- The slave trade (NOT SLAVERY) was abolished in Washington D.C.
- Stronger Fugitive Slave law
