Flashcards in Chapter 16 Deck (30):
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What was the Wilmot Proviso?
A proposal that would ban slavery in any lands that the U.S. acquired from Mexico
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Who won the Election of 1848?
Zachary Taylor
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What was the name for the bills that dealt with slavery in the states added since the Missouri Compromise?
Compromise of 1850
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What required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves in 1850?
The Fugitive Slave Act
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Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be, what two things?
Fined or imprisoned
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What did the enforcement of this act do?
Caused more anger in the North
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What increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the U.S.?
Kansas Nebraska Act
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What is popular sovereignty?
Letting people decide for themselves about an issue
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Which territory was the first to have blood shed over slavery?
Kansas
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Who was the violent abolitionist that believed God had chosen him to end slavery?
John Brown
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What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?
Butler's cousin, Rep. Preston Brooks, walked into the Senate chamber and hit Sumner with a cane
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What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to become?
The Republican Party
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Who did Dred Scott sue?
His owner
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What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?
Divided the nation even more
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Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled on the Dred Scott case?
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney
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According to the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Constitution do?
His decision basically stated that the Constitution protected slavery
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What Senate race became the center of national attention?
Lincoln and Douglas Debates
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What party was each candidate a part of?
R- Abraham Lincoln
D- Stephen A. Douglas
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What was the main topic of the debates during that election?
Slavery
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Who won the Illinois Senate race?
Douglas
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What was the name of the event when John Brown led men to attack a weapon storage facility?
The Raid on Harpers Ferry
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What was Brown hoping to start at the Raid on Harpers Ferry?
He hoped to start a rebellion against slaveholders by arming slaves
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After this event, what became a rallying cry for many abolitionists?
John Brown's death
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What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
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After seven states seceded, what was formed on Feb. 4, 1861?
Delegates met to form a new nation and a new gov't called the Confederate States of America
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How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?
With the belief in states' rights
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Who was the first President of the CSA?
Jefferson Davis
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Whose hands did President Lincoln say the possibility of war was in?
In the people's hands
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Confederate guns opened fire on what on April 12, 1861?
On Fort Sumter
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