Chapter 17 Test is on Thursday Questions 1-23

Chapter 16 and 17 Study Questions
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What was the Missouri Compromise?
• A plan proposed by Henry Clay to keep the number of slave and free states equal
• Suggested admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state

What was the Wilmont provisio?
• David Wilmot, called for a law to ban slavery in any lands won from Mexico

Define Abolitionists
• Person who wanted to end slavery in the United States

What was the free soil party?
• Anti slavery members of both parties
• Slogan was “Free soil, free speech, free labor, and free man
• Main objective was to keep slavery out of the western territories

Who were the candidates for president in 1848? What party did each belong to?
• Martin Van Buren – Free soilers
• Lewis Cass- Democrat
• Zachary Taylor – Whig

Who won the Presidential election in 1848?
• Zachary Taylor – was a slave holder from Louisiana

Describe the views of slavery for each of the following: slaveholders, Moderates, and Abolitionists
• Slaveholders – 1. allow slavery in every territory 2. Return escaped slaves to their owners
• Moderates – 1. Extended Missouri Compromise line, 2. Allow voter in each territory to decide on slavery

• Abolitionists – 1. Slavery is morally wrong 2. Ban slavery throughout the entire country
What was the Compromise of 1850?
• Agreement over slavery under which California joined the Union as free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed

What was the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
• Required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves
• People who let fugitives escape could be fined $1000 and jailed for six months

What was the Kansas Nebraska Act?
• Stephen Douglas proposed to set up a government for the Nebraska territory
• He proposed that the Nebraska Territory be divided into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska
• Each state would decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty

Who was John Brown?
• An abolitionist
• He moved to Kansas to help make it a free state
• Punished supporters of slavery by murder

Why was the territory called Bleeding Kansas?
• All of the violence and guerilla warfare in Kansas over the issue of slavery
• Newspapers labeled it Bleeding Kansas

Explain the Dred Scott case?
• Scott filed a lawsuit for his freedom
• He argued that he should be free because he lived in a free territory
• Supreme Court said he had no right to sue because he was a piece of property and not a citizen


How did the Dred Scott decision overturn the Missouri Compromise?
• The Supreme Court said that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional because it had forbidden slavery in some territories
• The Court said the Congress did not have the power to outlaw slavery in any territory

Why was Harriet Tubman called the “Black Moses”?
• Tubman is compared to Moses in the bible leading his people, the Israelites, from slavery to freedom
• Tubman led her own people, who were slaves to freedom on the underground railroad

Who was elected President in 1860?
• Abraham Lincoln

What state was the first to secede from the Union? What date?
• The first state to secede was South Carolina on December 20, 1860

What were the first seven states to secede?
• South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas

What did they call the new nation?
• Confederate States of America

What event started the Civil War?
• The bombing of Fort Sumter

What happened at Harpers Ferry?
• John Brown took a group of men to raid the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry

Why did Lincoln not use force against the Confederacy in the beginning when the states began to secede?
• Lincoln thought that if he used force against the southern states he would cause a civil war and unrest among the southerns

Why did Lincoln have trouble finding good generals for the Union army?
• Many of the army’s best officers joined the Confederacy