Towards Civil War Flashcards
James Buchanan
Democrat candidate in 1856
Civil War
fighting between citizens of the same country
John C. Fremont
Republican candidate in 1856
Popular Sovereignty
Where the people are the authority
Sectionalism
Time period before Civil war where North and South were divided over slavery
Franklin Pierce
14th president
signed the Kansas Nebraska Act and enforced the fugitive slave act
Wilmot Proviso
A ban on slavery in any lands gotten from Mexico
John Brown
abolitionist who led an attack on a pro slavery group
Compromise of 1850
Five separate laws
1)
Stronger Fugitive Slave Law
2. California to be a free state
3. Other new territories could have slavery
4. Okay to have slaves in Washington, D.C.
5. However, no slave trade in Washington, D.C.
Fugitive
person who runs away from the law
Arsenal
a place to store weapons
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States of America
Free Soil Party
Against slavery
Fugitive Slave Law
All states would have to return runaway slaves
Sectional Spokespeople
Webster- East, Clay- West, Calhoun- South
Missouri Compromise reversed by
Kansas Nebraska Act
result of Kansas Nebraska Act
Kansas ended up with two governments, major fighting between pro and anti slavery groups- Bleeding Kansas
Dred Scot decision
Scott was not a free man even though he lived in a free area, he was not a citizen , slavery was protected by Constitution
John Brown’s raid goal
Brown hoped to arm enslaved Africans
Identify the response of the southerners states upon Lincoln’s election victory in 1860
They seceded and formed the Confederate States of America
Identify parts of the Missouri Compromise
Admitted Missouri as a slave state, and Maine as a free state, and abolished slavery for any area north of 36 degrees latitude
Identify the parts of the Compromise of 1850
Five separate laws
1)
Stronger Fugitive Slave Law
2. California to be a free state
3. Other new territories could have slavery
4. Okay to have slaves in Washington, D.C.
5. However, no slave trade in Washington, D.C.
What principle was applied with the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Popular sovereignty
Explain why the Free Soil political party formed
They wanted to ban slavery in new territories
Explain the result of Uncle Tom’s Cabin on northern thinking about slavery
Explain why northerners did not like the Dredd Scott decision
Bc it said the Missouri Compromise and popular sovereignty were not allowed and said congress nor voters could ban slavery
Identify who the border states were and why they played a role in the Fort Sumter situation
Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland
