Chapter 10 Flashcards
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The south relied on a ________economy of cotton and tobacco which form the plantation society based on slavery
Staple crop
The ________ declared that Missouri would enter as a slave state and Maine would enter as a free state to keep the number of slave states and free states equal. It also establish that there will be no slavery north of the 36 30 line in Louisiana territory
Missouri compromise
In 1849 gold was discovered in California and the _______occurred when many 49ers went there to strike it rich
Gold rush
————- A senator from South Carolina was a staunch defender of slavery and did what he could to protect and extend slavery in the United States
Jonn C. Calhoun
————- was annexed by the United States in 1845, after Sam Hudson led the army to fight for and get it independence from Mexico
Texas
_________ debated Senator Stephen Douglas for the Illinois see in the U.S. Senate over this issue of slavery. Douglas won the election but it brought Lincoln into the national spotlight
Abraham Lincoln
————- let a slave rebellion in Virginia in which the slaves killed 60 whites however this rebellion made life worse for the slaves do to revenge
Nat Turner
————- became the king of the south’s economy
Cotton
In the US Congress the main argument over slavery was the weather or not it should be ————- into the territories
Extended
————- A senator from Massachusetts was a phenomenal speaker and spoke out very strongly against slavery in the US Congress
Daniel Webster
The ————— was built connecting the eastern United States to the West Coast of the United States through the Kansas Nebraska territory but opened up the slavery question against the US Congress
Transcontinental railroad
The ————— was an informational network of guys and safe houses which helped hundreds of slaves to escape to freedom each year
Underground Railroad
__________was a slave who sued for his freedom but lost in the Supreme Court because chief justice _________ rule that he is not a citizen so he couldn’t sue that Congress cannot determine slavery in the territories
Dred Scott
Roger Taney
________was known as “the great Pacificator” for defending the keeping together of the union by developing the Missouri compromise and the compromise of 1850
Henry clay
The development of the ________ which clean the seeds from the car in by Eli Whitney sealed the fate of slaves in the south
Cotton gin
The ________ was fought from 1846- 1848 in which the US won easily and acquired to Western lands of California and New Mexico
Mexican- American War
The _________ allowed for escaped slaves to be captured in the north and return to the south, and even made northerners help in capturing the escape slaves
Fugitive slave act
_______ became a battleground over the issue of slavery in several hundred settlers were killed as a result of violence between proslavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers
Kansas
After the Kansas Nebraska act of 1854 was passed the ________ was form to unite against the extension of slavery and to repel the Kansas Nebraska act in the fugitive slave laws
Republican party
_________ by Henry Clay admitted California as a free state in Utah and New Mexico territories as open to slavery abolished the slave trade in Washington DC and created a stricter fugitive slave law
Compromise of 1850
The ————— of 1819 was due to the government borrowing too much money and couldn’t repay it and to overspeculation by the banks of loaning money to the northern industries.
Panic
The_________ for a secret group of nativists formed based on hate and prejudice to dislike immigrants Catholics African-Americans in Etc.
Know-nothings
_________ written by Harriet Beecher Stowe he detailed cruelty of slavery and set up a strong abolish nest sentiment in the north
Uncle Toms cabin
The ________ United in support of the Wilmot proviso to keep slavery out of the western territories
Free soil party
