Chapter 17 Test is on Thursday Questions 1-23
Chapter 16 and 17 Study Questions
Pages 424 - 475
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
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