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Who won the Election of 1848?

A

Zachary Taylor

1
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What was the Wilmot Proviso?

A

A proposal that would ban slavery in any lands that the US acquired from the Mexico but never passed

2
Q

What was the name for the bills that dealt with slavery in the states added since the
Missouri Compromise?

A

Compromise of 1850

3
Q

What required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves in 1850?

A

The fugitive slave act

4
Q

Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be, what two things?

A

Fined or imprisoned

5
Q

What did the enforcement of this act do?

A

Anger in the north

6
Q

What increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the U.S.?

A

Kansas Nebraska act

7
Q

What is popular sovereignty?

A

Letting people decide for themselves about an issue

8
Q

Which territory was the first to have blood shed over slavery?

A

Kansas

9
Q

Who was the violent abolitionist that believed God had chosen him to end slavery?

A

John brown

10
Q

What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?

A

Preston brooks beat sumner with a cane

11
Q

What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to
become?

A

Forces to become Republican Party

12
Q

Who did Dred Scott sue?

A

His owner

13
Q

What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?

A

Divided the nation even more

14
Q

Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled on the Dred Scott case?

A

Roger B Taney

15
Q

According to the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Constitution do?

A

Protected slavery

16
Q

What Senate race became the center of national attention?

A

Lincoln and Douglas debates

17
Q

What party was each candidate a part of?

A

Lincoln - republic

Douglas- democrat

18
Q

What was the main topic of the debates during that election?

A

Slavery

19
Q

Who won the Illinois Senate race?

A

Douglas

20
Q

What was the name of the event when John Brown led men to attack a weapon
storage facility?

A

The Raid Of Harpers Ferry

21
Q

What was Brown hoping to start at the Raid on Harpers Ferry?

A

A rebellion against slaveholder a by arming salves

22
Q

After this event, what became a rallying cry for many abolitionists?

A

Browns death

23
Q

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

A

South Carolina

24
Q

After seven states seceded, what was formed on Feb. 4, 1861?

A

The confederate states of America

25
Q

How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?

A

The belief in states rights

26
Q

Who was the first President of the CSA?

A

Jefferson Davis

27
Q

Whose hands did President Lincoln say the possibility of war was in?

A

The peoples hands

28
Q

Confederate guns opened fire on what on April 12, 1861?

A

Fort Sumter

29
Q

What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

A

Fort Sumter attack