Chapter 18

What did South Carolina do when Lincoln won ?

Her choice because it gave them a reason to secede

Who was Harriet Tubman?

Important member of the Underground Railroad that helped slaves escape to Canada

What happened at Harpers Ferry? What happened to John Brown?

John brown try to raid Harpers Ferry to start a slave rebellion; Brown was hanged for treason.

What was the Kansas Nebraska act? Who proposed it

Kansas and Nebraska territory would decide slavery by popular sovereignty; Stephen Douglas

What were "personal liberty laws? "

Laws passed by northern states against adding enforcement of the fugitive slave act

What were the results of uncle Tom's cabin?

Many northerners would have nothing to do with the fugitive slave act and Britain and France is a government's realized intervention in the Civil War on behalf of the self will not be popular

Where was the first capital of the federal states of America?

Montgomery, Alabama.

What was the central point of the know nothing party in the election of 1856?

Nativism

Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?

Northern author who wrote uncle Tom's cabin which shows the horrors of slavery.

How does Northerners feel about the Dred Scott decision? ? Southerners?

Northerners were out raged; Southerners rejoiced.

What did Buchanan do in response to the southern states to seceding?

Nothing because he thought secession was unconstitutional, the army was needed in the west control natives, he thought the north would not support the use of force, that there was a small chance of reconciliation, and he was surrounded by pro southern advisers

Who was Matthew Perry what did he do?

Opened up Japan to the United States

What did the clash between Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner reveal?

Passions over slavery were becoming an intense between the north and south

Describe the south in 1850

Politically and economically well off

Who was John brown? What did he do and why?

Radical abolitionist that killed five people at Pottawatomie creek after proslavery people had burned the anti-slavery town of Lawrence

What were the results of the united states victory im the mexican war?

Renewed contoversy over expansion of slavery, split in whig and democrat parties over slavery, enormous amount of land added to the U.S., and population rush to california.

Who was William Walker? What did he do?

Seized control of Nicaragua

How did most slaves gain their freedom during the 1850s

Self- purchase

What did the Lecompton constitution propose?

Slave owners already in Kansas be protected

What caused the Whig party to split in 1852?

Slavery

Describe the compromise of 1850.

Slavery in New Mexico and Utah territories would beg determined by popular sovereignty, California would be a free state, and a stronger fugitive slave act

Describe the people going to California during the gold rush

Some were running from the law

Why did the Republicans lose the election of 1856?

Southern threats of war

What all did the free soil party platform advocate in 1848

Support of the wilmot proviso, federal aid for internal improvements, free government homesteads for settlers, and opposition to slavery in the territories

What was the Crittenden compromise? Did Lincoln agree with it?

The compromise would have guaranteed the permanent existence of slavery and the slave states are establishing the free slave did my demarcation up by the 1820 Missouri compromise. Lincoln did not agree with that because he had been elected on the platform that I posed extension of slavery.

Define popular sovereignty. Why did the public like popular sovereignty

The people of the territory would vote on slavery;they felt it was democratic

What did Hinton R. Helper argue in the impending crisis of the SOUTH?

Those who suffered the most from slave labor were non-slaveholding southern whites

Why did southern delegates meet at a convention in Nashville in the summer of 1850

To discuss the compromises being worked out in congress and how they did not like them

What was the free soilers argument against slavery?

Would cause more costly wage labor to go away and destroyed the chances for free white workers

Describe the young guard from the north

Young strong anti slavery congressmen wanting to purify the union

What was the Ostend manifesto?

A scheme to gain control of Cuba

What did Daniel Webster seventh of march speech result in?

A shift towards a compromise in the north

Describe the election of 1860.

Abraham Lincoln republican candidate that can paint for banning of slavery and territories; Stephen Douglas Democratic candidate popular sovereignty; John Breckingridge Southern Democrat candidate extend slavery into territories; John bell constitutional union party preserve the union by compromise.

What were the Lincoln Douglas debate's about? What was the Freeport doctrine? What were the results?

Debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas for the race of Illinois see in the United States Senate; slavery would stay down if people voted it down parentheses going against dread Scott decision defending popular sovereignty; Douglas one

Describe the election of 1848

Democratic and Whig parties remained silent on the slave issue and the key focus was personalities of the candidates

Describe the election of 1856

Democratic candidate was James your Canon, republican candidate was John C Fremont. No nothing candidate was Millard Fillmore. Platform for no nothings was nativism; Buchanan wins because of southern threats of war if there was a Republican victory

What did James Buchanan the side on the Lecompton constitution? What did it do to the Democratic Party?

He supported the Lecompton constitution and it divided the Democratic Party

Why did James you can and win the democratic nomination for presidency in 1856

Because he was not associated with the Kansas Nebraska act

Describe bleeding Kansas

Civil War in Kansas between abolitionist and proslavery people

What was the treaty of wanghai

First formal diplomatic agreement between the United States and China

What did William h. Seward argue in the debates of 1850

He said that Christian legislatures must obey gods moral laws

Why was the constitutional union party formed?

As a middle of the road party trying to prevent the break up of the union.

Describe the provisions of the fugitive slave law?

Denied a jury trial or right to testify to runaway slaves, penalty of imprisonment and fine for Northerners who helped helped runaway slaves, higher payment to officials if they determined African Americans to be runaways

What event brought turmoil to the administration of Zachary Taylor?

Discovery of gold in california

Describe the panic of 1857. How did it affect the south?

Economic depression that hit northwestern grain growers the hardest; self was not affected so they thought "king was cotton quote

How did John c Calhoun suggest protection of the south and slavery

Elect two presidents one from the north and one from the south

How did Zachary Taylor help the cause of the compromise in 1850

He died suddenly and Millard Fillmore who supported the compromise of 1850 became president

Why did secessionists support leaving the union?

They were appalled by the Republican Party, they believe the north would not oppose there's a session, they felt the political balance was tipping against them, and they were tired of abolitionist attack.

Describe the Dred Scott case.

Travis Scott was a slave that lived and free territory with master and sued for his freedom; court found that he was not a citizen therefore he cannot sue and then rolled the congress cannot legislate where people could take their slaves because slaves were property and property rights are protected under the fifth amendment. not a citizen therefore he cannot sue and then ruled that Congress cannot legislate where people could take their slaves because slaves were property and property rights are protected under the fifth amendment