history quiz 5/5 Flashcards
The Whigs chose ________ as their candidate for slavery in the election
Did not have an official stance on slavery, but owned many slaves
Won the election of 1848
seemed ready to veto any compromise over slavery between the North and South that went through Congress when he was president.
Zachary Taylor
In the democracy convention of 1852, the democrats chose __________ as their presidential candidate
He supported the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Law.
Won the election of 1852
This election marked the end of the Whig Party
Franklin Pierce
A senator who tried to break the North-South deadlock over westward expansion
Was in support of Henry Clay’s compromises
proposed the Territory of Nebraska to be sliced into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska
This Kansas-Nebraska Act conflicted with the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which forbade slavery in the proposed Nebraska Territory. _________ was forced to propose the repealing of the Missouri Compromise.
Stephen Douglas
Spoke at the congressional debate of 1850 with “the immortal trio, “ Henry Clay, John Calhoun, and __________
called for people to make concessions and support Clay’s proposals to maintain the Union (Seventh of March Speech). He was against slavery, but he viewed the collapse of the Union as worse.
Daniel Webster
Senator of New York;
opposed slavery and because of this, he opposed Clay’s proposals
He argued that God’s moral law was higher than the Constitution.
William Seward
At the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore, the Democrats chose _____________, a veteran of the War of 1812, as their candidate for the presidency.
___________ was not against slavery; he supported popular sovereignty.
Nickname was Gass
Lewis Cass
an illiterate runaway slave who helped rescue hundreds of slaves through the Underground Railroad, a network of anti-slavery homes that passed slaves from the slave states to Canada.
Harriet Tubman
Northern spokesmen whose support for the compromise of 1850 earned him the hatred of abolitionists
Matthew Perry
Military hero of the Mexican war who became the whig’s last presidential candidate in 1852.
Winfield Scott
government based on consent of the people.
Popular sovereignty
The divider between the North and South states/separated the free and slave states.
Mason Dixon line
Series of laws that tried to settle the debate over slavery as the country was expanding westward.
Admitted California as a free state
Strengthened the fugitive slave act.
Proposed by Henry Clay.
compromise of 1850
Developed when the Whigs and Democrats both tried to stay neutral on the issues of slavery.
_________ were very against slavery
Their representative was Martin Van Buren
Free soiler party
Soon after taylor was elected president, gold was discovered in california
Very few people struck it rich and the rest were left with little to go home with.
Lots of crime came to california during the gold rush because of the lack of government
A constitution was created with the help of Taylor which banned slavery in california
The southerners did not support this and pushed back on California being added to the union.
Gold Rush
When the U.S. bought a chunk of land from mexico to build a southern railroad route.
Expanded the U.S. by 29,000 miles
Gadsen Purchase
