Chapter 16 Flashcards
Who won the Election of 1848?
Zachary Taylor
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
A proposal that would ban slavery in any lands that the U.S. Acquired from Mexico but never passed
What was the name for the bills that dealt with slavery in the states added since the Missouri Compromise?
Compromise of 1850
What required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves in 1850?
The figurative slave act
Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be, what two things?
Fined or imprisoned
What did the enforcement of this act do?
Increased the amount of territory open to slave holding in the us
What increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the U.S.?
Kansas Nebraska act
What is popular sovereignty?
Letting people decide them selfs
Which territory was the first to have blood shed over slavery?
Kansas
Who was the violent abolitionist that believed God had chosen him to end slavery?
John brown
What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?
Senator sumner of mass lashed out against those of slavery
What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to become?
Republican Party
Who did Dred Scott sue?
His owner
What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?
Divided even more
Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled on the Dred Scott case?
Roger b toney