Chapter 16✏️ Flashcards
Who won the Election of 1848?
Zachary Taylor
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
A proposal that would ban slavery from any land that America acquired 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 Fugitive Slave Act
Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be, what two things?
Fined or put in prison
What did the enforcement of this act do?
Move in the north
What increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the U.S.?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is popular sovereignty?
Letting people decide for themselves about an issue
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?
Charles Summer pushed against those for slavery including Andrew P. Butler so Andrew’s cousin, Rep. Preston Brooks,walked into a senate meeting and beat Charles with his cane
What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to
become?
The Republican Party
Who did Dred Scott sue?
His slaveholder
What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?
Basically stated that the constitution protected slavery
Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled on the Dred Scott case?
Roger B. Taney