history chp. 10
As a result of a 1820 compromise, what two states entered the union, one as a free state and one as a slave state?
Missouri and Maine
The rupublican party was formed by people who despite their differences, were united in
opposition to the extension of slavery in the territories
The formal withdraw of a state from the union is known as
secession
The whig party was divided by members' attitude toward the issue of
slavery
The major aim of the Free-soil party was to
stop the spread of slavery
Explination of the dependence of the southern economy on slavery
the southern economy was rural based on agriculture and consisted mostly of plantations
What was henry clays primary purpose in offering the Compromise of 1850?
to avoid the nation splitting into two nations over the issue of slavery
According to the idea's of popular sovereignty, which of the following would decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory?
The residents of the territory.
According to the principal of popular sovereignty, what would decide wheter slavery would be allowed in a territory?
The residents of the territory/the legislature
Harriet Tubman helped over 300 slaves safely flee the South by using a system known as _______________.
The underground railroad
The lincoln-douglas debates were contested in an election for the US senate seat from this state
illinois
People who favored the concept of nativism feared and opposed
immigration
What was the fate of Wilmot Proviso?
it passed the House of representatives byt never passed the senate, so did not become a law
Which reason did NOT help to save the compromise of 1850
its being bundled together as one set of resolutions
The voilence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in kansas known as bleeding kanas was created by the passage of this legislation in 1854
kansas-nebraska act
The major aim of the free-soil paty
oppose the extension of slavery into the new territories
The Kansas-Nebraska act contibuted to the massive violence known as
Bleeding kansas
Which state entered the union as a free state after the compromise of 1850
California
Religious group that the Know-nothings demonstarted bias toward
Catholics
The debate over slavery led to violence in the U.S. Senate when Preston Brooks attacked
Charles Sumner
Which party won the presidential election of 1852 and 1856?
Democrats
Supreme court decision involved the liberty of an African-american in 1859
Dred Scott Decision
In response to the ______________, nine northern states passed personal liberty laws, forbidding the imprisonment of runaway slaves and guaranteeing them jury trials.
Fugitive slave act
Nine northern stats passed personal liberty laws that prevented the imprisonment of runaway slaves and guarenteed them a jury trial in response to what federal law?
Fugitive slave act
Who was the famous author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Also known as the black Moses
Harriet Tubman
Nicknamed Moses bc she helped over 30 slaves to flee the south to freedom
Harriet Tubman
In the antebellum period from 1848 to 1860 when the union was in peril, all of the following were weak Oresidents of the US and willing to give in rather than take a strong stand to try and resolve the dispute between the north ad the south over slavery except
Henry Clay
Who was the long serving member of congress who sponsered the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay
What did NOT help to save the Compromise of 1850?
Its being bundled together as one set of resolutions.
Who won the presidential election of 1856?
James Buchanan
Led raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia on Oct 186, 1859
James brown
Radical abolitionist contributed to the violence in kansas
John Brown
Which man did not support the Compromise of 1850?
John C. Calhoun
Who did not support the Compromise of 1850?
John C. Calloun
Future state that when it applied to the union in when it applied for admission to the untion sent congress both a proslavery and anti-slavery constitution
Kansas
Was not a term of the Compromise of 1850
Kansas woulddecide wheter it was a slave of free through popular sovereignty
The American party which had its roots in a secret organization
Know nothings
Which political party prompted advancment of native-born citizens over imigrants?
Know-nothing
Who became president of the US upon the death of Zachary Tayor and contributed to the passage of the Compromise of 1850?
Millard Fillmore
Who became president upon the death of Zachary taylor and helped the passage of the compromise of 1850
Millard Fillmore
The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska act repealed this earlier federal law
Missouri Compromise
Why were threats of secession feared?
People believed that they could result in the break-up of the Union.
Stephen A. Douglas believed that the only democratic way to deal with slavery was
Popular soverinty
Present-day political party ran ts first canidate for president in 1856
Republican
Political party created in 1856 due to opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska act
Republicans
Cheif Justice of the supreme court who handed down the decision in the case involving slavery who said "slaves did not have rights bc they were not citizens they were property"
Roger B Taney
Proposed the bill to divide the Nebraska territory which sparked bitter debate in congress
Stephen A Douglas
Although this novel was melodramatic and contained steryotyps, it intensified Northerners anger about the issue of slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The secret network of people who hid fugitive slaves who went north to the freedom
Underground railroad
At the outbreak of the civil war, which of these states west of the Mississippi river was not a state?
Utah
The wilmot proviso proposed that slavery should be banned from
all territories won in the mexican war
The Wilmot Proviso proposed that slavery should be banned from ____________________?
all the territories won from Mexico.
The wilmot proviso was favored by
anti-slavery northerners
The Wilmot Proviso proposed that slavery should be banned from ___________
any territory goined as a result of the war with mexico
The lecompton constition propsoed the entrance of what territory into the union as a pro-slavery state
california