American History Chapter 10 Assessment

1846 bill that would have banned slavery in the territory won from Mexico in the Mexican American War

antislavery political party of the mid 1800s

the voters in a territory get to decide wether or not to allow slavery instead of congress

Political agreement that allowed California to be admitted as a free state by allowing popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave law

law that required all citizens to aid in apprehending runaway slaves

to withdraw formally from a membership in a group or an organization

They decided to embrace the idea of popular sovereignty and let the people decide

The North had many varying views, some wanted it abolished because of moral issues yet still saw them as inferior while others made money of of the south's cotton and opposed liberation. The south thought that by having them enslaved, they were helping them and that it was the will of God

The issue of slavery caused new political parties and factions to form, splitting the democrats and whigs apart

With California wanting to become a state, they did not want the balance of the pro slavery and anti slavery states to be disrupted

It allowed California to become a free state appeasing the North, and they made the fugitive slave laws stricter to appease the South

It could have been because by the time they had to get to the underground rail road, they had already escaped their masters in the South and needed help in the North

It put their freedom in question as to wether they escaped or they had bought their freedom or were released

Laws enacted by Northern states to counteract the Fugitive Slave Act by granting rights to escaped slaves and free blacks

system that existed before the Civil War, in which black and white abolitionists helped escaped slaves travel to safe areas, especially Canada

She was a fugitive slave who was an underground railroad conductor known as "Black Moses" because of the amount of people she led out of bondage

Publisher of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which powerfully condemned slavery

1854 law that divided the Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska giving each territory the right to decide whether or not to allow slavery

A New york abolitionist that executed five proslavery settlers

term used to describe the 1854-1856 violence between proslavery and antislavery supporters in Kansas

The Fugitive Slave Act required the Northerners to return the fugitive slaves they had been harboring and for the two new states to decide their verdict on slavery on their own

Slaveholders got their slaves returned, white Northerners either had to give up the slaves they were harboring or were glad to have the job competition gone. and the free slaves were afraid that they would be marked as a fugitive and brought back with all the rest back into slavery

It allowed any state decide wether or not to allow slavery not depending on their location on a map

political party of the mid 1800s, officially known as the American Party, that opposed immigration

political party established around an antislavery platform in 1854

A missouri slave that sued for his freedom

Cheif Justice who supervised the Dred Scott case, ruling against Scott

President of The United States at the time, began his political career at 25 years of age

Lincoln's opponent during the presidential election

town in Virginia where abolitionist John Brown raided a federal arsenal in 1859

The ruling against Dred Scott in his case, the election of Abraham Lincoln as president, the Election of 1856, and John Brown's exicution

the old parties broke apart, and with the new movements of antislavery gave rise to the Republican Party

Because the court declared that slaves did not have the right to sue

Brown's efforts failed and he ended up being executed

Was a senator who convinced Congress to adopt resolutions restricting federal control over slavery in territories

Vice Presided supported by democrats from the South

government of 11 southern states that seceded from the United States and fought against the Union in the Civil War

1861 proposed constitutional amendemnt that attempted to prevent secession of the southern states by allowing slavery in all territories south of the Missouri Compromise line

federal fort located in Charleston, South Carolina, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired

The president was elected without a single southern vote, therefor the south thought that they no longer needed to abide by a government that they had no say in, therefor the seceded, Lincoln said that no state could secede from the Union by its own accord, therefor they fighting broke out

Lincoln did not receive a single southern vote yet he was still elected into office, therefor the South did not get a say in who was President

They felt that because the leader of the United States of America was not elected by all of the United States of America, then he was not the leader and therefor it should be dissolved

Buchanan could have prevented war by not allowing the Confederate to separate from the Union. Buchanan could have also acted differently on issues of slavery, especially in Kansas.

law that required all citizens to aid in apprehending runaway slaves

system that existed before the Civil War, in which black and white abolitionists helped escaped slaves travel to safe areas, especially Canada

term used to describe the 1854-1856 violence between proslavery and antislavery supporters in Kansas

town in Virginia where abolitionist John Brown raided a federal arsenal in 1859

Was a senator who convinced Congress to adopt resolutions restricting federal control over slavery in territories

They decided to embrace the idea of popular sovereignty and let the people decide

The Fugitive Slave Act required the Northerners to return the fugitive slaves they had been harboring and for the two new states to decide their verdict on slavery on their own

The president was elected without a single southern vote, therefor the south thought that they no longer needed to abide by a government that they had no say in, therefor the seceded, Lincoln said that no state could secede from the Union by its own accord, therefor they fighting broke out

The tensions erupting between the North and the South needed to be adressed by the Government before the people tore themselves apart

They both gave passionate speeches to the senate expressing their opinions and oppositions

They were angry and viewed that slavery was an inhumane act

it created more proslavery states

Because of Lincoln's success in unifying the nation, they gained power over the states that had rebelled

He predicted that the abolitionists would cause a huge uproar

Stephen A. Douglass