US History Chapter 8 Note Quiz Flashcards
In August 1846 what representative proposed an addition to a war appropriations bill?
David Wilmont
What amendment proposed that any territory the United States gained from Mexico would not permit slavery?
Wilmont Proviso
Who prepared a series of revolutions to counter the Wilmont Proviso, but it never came to a vote?
John C. Calhoun
Which senator from Michigan proposed popular sovereignty?
Lewis Cass
With the 1848 election approaching the Whigs chose whom to run for president?
Zachary Taylor
What were the two types of Northern Whigs?
Conscience Whigs, and Cotton Whigs
The free-soil party was made of what groups?
Antislavery Democrats, Conscience Whigs, members of Liberty Party
Who won the 1848 election?
Zachary Taylor
What state applied for statehood as a “free state”? in 1849
California
Who tried to find a compromise that would enable California to join the Union?
Henry Clay
How many resolutions did Henry Clay offer for California?
Eight
Who wrote a response saying that Clay’s compromise would not save the union?
John C. Calhoun
Who succeeded president Taylor after he died?
Vice President Millard Fillmore
What compromise broke down the orignal compromise and ended up getting all parts passed?
Compromise of 1850
Under what act did a person claiming that an African American had escaped from slacery had only to point out that person as a runaway to take him or her into custody?
Fugitive Slave Act
Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The opening of Oregon and the admission of California to the Union had convinced Americans that a what should be built?
Transcontinental Railroad
