Chapter 15 Creating America 8th Flashcards
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What is sectionalism?
Loyalty to one’s own region rather than the country as a whole.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
An act that allowed settlers in new territories to vote on whether to allow slavery.
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act overturn?
The Missouri Compromise.
What was ‘Bleeding Kansas’?
Violent conflict in Kansas between abolitionists and pro-slavery forces.
Who was John Brown?
A radical abolitionist who believed slavery should be ended with force.
What did John Brown attack at Harper’s Ferry?
A federal arsenal.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
A law that made it easier for slaveholders to capture escaped slaves.
What was the Underground Railroad?
A secret network of safe houses used by African Americans to escape slavery.
Who wrote ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’?
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
What was the Dred Scott Decision?
A Supreme Court case ruling that Dred Scott was not a citizen and Congress could not ban slavery in territories.
Who was the Chief Justice during the Dred Scott Decision?
Roger B. Taney.
What was the outcome of the Dred Scott Decision?
It shocked abolitionists and strengthened Southern pro-slavery arguments.
Who emerged as a strong opponent of the spread of slavery?
Abraham Lincoln.
What did Lincoln argue during the debates with Stephen Douglas?
That slavery was morally wrong and should not expand into new territories.
What was the significance of Lincoln’s election in 1860?
It convinced many Southerners that they had lost political power.
What did Southern states do following Lincoln’s election?
They began to secede from the Union.
What did the seceding states form?
The Confederate States of America.
Who was chosen as the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis.
What was Henry Clay known as?
The ‘Great Compromiser’.
What did the failure to reach another compromise lead to?
The outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.
What was the main goal of the Wilmot Proviso introduced in 1846?
To ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico
The Wilmot Proviso intensified sectional tensions over slavery.
What was the slogan of the Free-Soil Party?
‘Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men’
This slogan emphasized opposition to the spread of slavery into new territories.
What was the Ostend Manifesto?
A controversial U.S. proposal to purchase Cuba from Spain
It implied military force if Spain refused, alarming anti-slavery advocates.
Which prominent statesman supported the Union and compromise?
Daniel Webster
He played a key role in debates like the Compromise of 1850.
