All the shit that went down before the civil war 1830-1860 #5

Question 1

Texas annexation

Answer 1

a huge slave state
Jackson no era kara no one wants to deal with it

Polk
15th slave state
Mandate

Resolution for border dispute over Oregon

Question 2

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 2

Want White settlers to have jobs in these new lands w/out competition from slaves

failed in senate

Question 3

Texas separate. why?

Answer 3

Texans were constantly breaking Mexican laws anyway

slaves

Question 4

Ostend manifesto

Answer 4

try to buy Cuba in secret

extend South’s sugar-slave empire

Question 5

Border disputes with Great Britain

Answer 5

Maine
Oregon

Webster-Ashburn Treaty

Question 6

Free-soilers

Answer 6

Northerern Democrats and Whigs
No blacks– slaves and free– in Mexican Cession (CA etc)

Want to keep opportunities for Whites only
simply against the SPREAD of slavery

For free homesteads, internal improvements

Question 7

Popular sovereignty

Answer 7

Senator Lewis Cass

let the squatters decide about slavery

Question 8

Compromise of 1850

Answer 8

• Henry Clay

1. The admission of California as a free state
2. The division of the remainder of the Mexican cession into two territories, New Mexico and Utah, based on popular sovereignty
3. The settlement of the Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute on terms favorable to New Mexico
4. An agreement that the federal government would assume the considerable public debt of Texas
5. The continuance of slavery in the District of Columbia but the abolition of the slave trade
6. A more effective Fugitive Slave Law

Question 9

Persona Liberty Laws

Answer 9

• A response to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

* Forbid the use of state jails to incarcerate alleged fugitives

Question 10

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 10

Stephen A. Douglas

Divided Nebraska territory into Kansas and Nebraska

Popular sovereignty

Northerners against: was supposed to be non-slave according to Missouri

Question 11

Know-Nothing party

Answer 11

one hit wonder

against Irish Catholics/immigrants

Question 12

Cotton Whigs

Answer 12

pro-slavery Whigs

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 13

Conscience Whigs

Answer 13

anti-slavery Whigs

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 14

Election of 1856

Answer 14

In the end, Republicans vs Democrats

Republicans– didn’t want slavery to spread
Democrats– want slavery

sectional

Question 15

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 15

Fight between making Kansas slave or not

Both sides wrote up constitutions for Kansas

Question 16

Beating of Senator Charles Sumner

Answer 16

Brooks (south) beat Sumner for calling South barbaric

Brooks– hero in South

Question 17

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 17

Basically Blacks aren’t even citizens

Set precedence