history chp. 10

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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


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