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Chapter 13 Flashcards

0
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What was the escape route for fugitive slaves through northern states

A

Underground Railroad

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What was the resolution that the U.S. Prohibited slavery in any territory acquired by mexico (the northern view)

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Wilmot proviso

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T/f

Nearly half owned slaves

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False

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Lincoln believed they should abolish slavery

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False

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Roger Taney recognized slaves as citizens

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False

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Southern senates blocked Wilmot proviso

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True

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Buchanan was a sympathetic guy

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True

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Abolitionist were primarily responsible for bleeding Kansas

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False

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Crittedon compromise failed to pass republican controlled congress

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True

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Thousands of slaves escaped Underground Railroad

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True

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10
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What was the bloody fighting that broke out between the two factions?

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Bleeding Kansas

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11
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What revealed that even the Supreme Court coudn’t solve problems

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Dred Scott vs Sanford

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12
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Who was nominated by the democrats in 1856 and was an ideal candidate to unite factions

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James Buchanan

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13
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What were lincoln’s ideas on slavery

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Opposed expansions of slavery

Didn’t believe in equality of blacks

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14
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Last effort to save the union

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Crittendon compromise

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15
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Who wanted to save the constitutional Union

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The constitutional Union

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16
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Who was the candidate of the constitutional Union

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John bell

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17
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Nominated by southerns in 1860

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John Breckinridge

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18
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Southern representative who caned northerner

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Preston brooks

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19
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Who was a fanatical abolitionist

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John brown

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20
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Who made the last democrat pro-compromise

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James Buchanan

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21
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First president of the confederate states

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Jefferson Davis

22
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Senator of Illinois

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Stephen Douglas

23
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First republican candidate for president, war hero

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John Fremont

24
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First republican president

A

Abraham Lincoln

25
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Supreme Court justice

A

Roger Taney

26
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What is related to the gold rush

A

Forty niners

27
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Who favored keeping slavery in south but no extending it further

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Free-solier

28
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Radical southerners

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Fire-eaters

29
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Anti-immigrant and anti-Catholics

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KNow nothing

30
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Belief that each territory can decide

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Popular sovereignty

31
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Antis slavery and pro business

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Republicans

32
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Term for leaving the union

A

Secession

33
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Helped with the funding of the slabs revolts

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Secret six

34
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Which political party was free soil free speech free labor and free men

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Free-soil party

35
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1859 what federal arsenals as attacked in hopes of a slave revolt

A

Harpers ferry

36
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The first shot fired

A

Fort Sumter, carolina

37
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Who was a former slave that was denied as a citizen

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Dredd Scott

38
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What did the Calhoun resolution say

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Slavery prohibited only by slaves

39
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Why did south resist california statehood

A

Upset balance of free and slave states in the senate

40
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What aspect of the compromise of 1850 made it worse

A

Fugitive slave laws

41
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What was not part of the compromise of 1850

A

The railroads

42
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Effective propaganda tool for abolitionist

A

Uncle toms cabin

43
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What was the Kansas Nebraska act

A

Organized with popular sovereignty

44
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What raid was unsuccessful

A

Harper ferry

45
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What did it mean when territory prohibited slavery by refusing to adopt laws

A

Freeport doctrine

46
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What was at the heart of Douglas debate

A

Immorality of slavery

47
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Lower south reason to secede

A

Election of Lincoln

48
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Upper south reason to secede

A

Because of Lincoln calling troops to attack the lower south that seceded

49
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Why did Daniel Webster believe the debate on slavery was useless

A

Climate of new territories could not support it

50
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Greatest spur in California

A

Gold rush

51
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The sack of Lawrence was associated with what people

A

Pro-slavery

52
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What were the the Chief Justice and majority opinion in the dred Scott vs Sanford case

A

The majority said a slave is not a citizen and cannot sue
According to the chief justice, the Constitution did not recognize slaves or free blacks as citizens. Blacks, in Taney’s words, “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”

53
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Explain basic positions promoted by Lincoln and Douglas in their famous dearest

A

Douglas continued to promote popular sovereignty and he accused Lincoln of promoting absolute equality between the races. Lincoln backed away from the equality issue and refused to say that equality was a moral. Lincoln believed the heart of the issue was not black equality but the immorality of slavery.

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