Chapter 14- Sections 1 & 2
Name some of the issues between the North and the South.
- Northerners wanted the slave trade abolished in Washington, DC. - Southerners wanted northerners to catch people who escaped from slavery. - CA was wanting admission as a free state. Southern leaders threatened to secede from the nation if CA was admitted to the union as a free state because it would upset the balance between free/slave states.
Describe what The Compromise of 1850 did to please the South.
- Popular sovereignty would be used to decide the question of slavery in the rest of the Mexican Cession - People in the states that were created from this territory would vote whether to be a free state or a slave state when they requested admission to the Union
Explain Uncle Toms Cabin.
- Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe - Best seller in the North - Shocked people who had previously been unconcerned about slavery (human problem) - White southerners were mad by the book
Name the 2 ways to preserve the South's way of life.
1) Constitutional amendments to protect states' rights 2) Secession
The Compromise of 1850 was made up of __ bills.
5
John Brown
An anti slavery settler from Connecticut, led seven men to a proslavery settlement near Pottawatomie Creek
How did California's proposed admission to the Union affect the debate between the North & the South over slavery?
Both sides realized that California's admission to the Union as a free state would upset the balance between free and the slave states in the Senate.
What led to the Free-Soil Party?
Controversy over the Wilmot Proviso led to the rise of a new political party. Party was called the Free-Soil Party. It was made up of antislavery Whigs and Democrats.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
David Wilmot (PA) proposed Congress ban slavery in all territory that might become part of the U.S. as a result of the Mexican-American War. It never became law but caused great concern in the South. Many viewed it as an attack on slavery by the North.
____________ called for the territory gained in the Mexican-American War to be "free soil" a place where slavery was banned
Free-Soil Party
________________ became the most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave act
Explain Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster and their role in the debate between the North and the South.
Henry Clay stepped forward with a plan to end this crisis. (he had been nicknamed the Great Compromise for working out the Missouri Compromise) John Calhoun was against compromising. Daniel Webster was in support of Clay and called for an end to this as it was dividing the nation. He said he wanted to preserve the Union.
What was Stephen Douglass's home state?
Illinois
What was the outcome of the election to select a legislature in the Kansas Territory?
Of 39 legislators elected, all but three supported slavery.
Stephen Douglas
Was Eager to develop the lands west of his home state of Illinois. He wanted to see a railroad built from Illinois through the Nebraska Territory to the Pacific Coast
What was the Compromise of 1850?
congress finally passed 5 bills that were based on Clay's proposals. It became known as the Compromise of 1850.
propaganda
false or misleading information that is spread to further a cause
California was admitted as a _______ state.
free
popular sovereignty
meant that people in the territory or state would vote directly on issues, rather that having their elected representatives decide
How did Stephen Douglas's plan undo the Missouri Compromise?
proposed that slavery in the new territories be decided by popular sovereignty.
Daniel Webster
rose to support Clay's proposals and called for an end to the bitter sectionalism that was dividing the nation
fugitive
runaway enslaved people
Henry Clay
stepped forward with a plan to calm the crisis. Won the nickname the Great Compromiser working out the Missouri Compromise. Now, Clay made another series of proposals that he hoped would forever resolve the issues that bitterly divided the northerners and southerners
John C. Calhoun
was against the compromise. He was gravely ill and just four weeks from death. He was too weak to give his speech, but he struggled to sit upright while his final speech was read to the Senate
secede
withdraw
The Free-Soil Party chose _____________ to be their candidate for office, but he lost to ______________.
They chose Martin Van Buren( Democrat) as their candidate, but he lost to General Zachary Taylor.
How did southerners criticize Uncle Tom's Cabin?
They said it was propoganda
Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe write Uncle Tom's Cabin?
She decided to write something that will make this whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is.
_______________ supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act, _______________were outraged
Southerners supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Northerners were outraged
The Kansas- Nebraska Act passed. ____________________ predicted the slavery question would be forever banished from the halls of Congress
Stephen Douglass
_________________ proposed that slavery in the new territories be decided by popular sovereignty. This would also undo the Missouri Compromise
Stephen Douglass
TRUE OR FALSE: A tough slave law- fugitive slave act of 1850: a slave could be recaptured in the North (Their owners could come and get them)
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE: Between 1820-1848, 4 new slave states and 4 new free states were admitted to the Union. Once again, making a total of 15 slave states and 15 free states (it was balanced).
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE: Northerners were outraged to see people accused of being fugitive slaves disproved of their freedom because of the Fugitive Slave Act.
TRUE
_______________ banned slavery from our nation's capital.
The Compromise of 1850
__________________ was designed to end the crisis by giving both supporters/ opponents of slavery part of what they wanted
The Compromise of 1850
Nation moved closer to war after _______________ was passed
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The daughter of an abolitionist minister, Stowe met many people who had escaped from slavery.
