LESSON 14: The Sectional Crisis

Question 1

David Wilmot

Answer 1

Pennsylvania Democrat;
proposed banning slavery and settlement of free Blacks in new territories (for the entire Mexican cession)

Question 2

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 2

ban slavery in all new territories; proposal passed House but defeated in the Senate; when came back for the second time to the House, President James K. Polk defeated it

Question 3

Calhoun Doctrine

Answer 3

federal protection for the expansion of slavery to any territory

Question 4

Lewis Cass

Answer 4

Michigan Senator;
suggested popular sovereignty or squatter sovereignty

Question 5

The 1848 Election

Answer 5

Democrat Lewis Cass: popular sovereignty
Whig Zachary Taylor avoided slavery
Free Soil Candidate Van Buren (former Democrat & President)

Zachary Taylor won close election

Question 6

The Crisis of 1850

Answer 6

Taylor supported immediate acceptance of CA & NM as free states

Question 7

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 7

repealed the Missouri Compromise -> popular sovereignty instead;
1854;
Stephen Douglas proposed

Question 8

Consequences of Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 8

Ostend Manifesto
divided Whig Party destroyed in 1854
“Know Nothing” Party flourished
Democrates became stronger in the South
Republicans emerged as strong sectional party in the North by 1856

Question 9

Ostend Manifesto

Answer 9

proposed that U.S. acquire Cuba from Spain;
a document that an American Ambassador drafted in Spain

Question 10

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 10

Fradulent election produces pro-slavery majority in legislature, 1854;
government in Lecompton protected slavery;
Antislavery government formed in Topeka;

local civil war emerged in 1856; 300 people died

Question 11

John Brown

Answer 11

radical abolitionist;
he and 21 men seized federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, VA, 1859;

was captured and executed