Environment & Geography
Ideas, Beliefs & Culture
Figures from the Compromise of 1850
Attempts To Solve Slavery
Key Terms
100
What is sectionalism?
A devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole.
100
An anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that made Americans aware of the harsh and inhumane conditions of slavery and put the country on the road to Civil War.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
Argued for the South and for states' rights; wanted slavery to be left alone, the runaway slaves to be returned to the South, and the state balance to be kept intact.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
100
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri would become a slave state while Maine would become a free state.
100
What is popular sovereignty, and who was in favor of it?
Where states are slave or free based on popular vote. Stephen Douglas, and Lewis Cass, etc.
200
What was the Gold Rush and what area did it affect?
A significant event that occurred in 1849 in which gold discovered in California attracted a rush of people from all around the world to San Francisco.
200
The idea commonly held in the mid-1800’s that America had the God-given right to expand westward across the entire North American continent. It would lead to the Mexican War.
What is the Manifest Destiny?
200
The "Great Compromiser"; he offered a compromise for the California slavery issue.
Who is Henry Clay?
200
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States.
200
What was the treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago?
The plan to buy the lower part of California from Mexico for $15 million.
300
What led to the Union’s military victory over the Confederacy in the devastating Civil War?
The North’s greater manpower and industrial resources, its leadership, and the decision for emancipation.
300
An anti-foreign feeling that arose in the 1840’s and 1850’s in response to the influx of Irish and German Catholics.
What is nativism?
300
The 13th President of the United States, the last Whig President, and the last president not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties.
Who is Millard Fillmore?
300
Name at least three aspects of the Compromise of 1850.
(1) California was admitted as a free state, (2) Texas gave up its claims to lands disputed with New Mexico, (3) Slave trade in D.C. was banned but slavery was legal, (4) Popular sovereignty in Mexican Cession lands, or (5) Texas was paid $10 million for land lost.
300
In which conflict did abolitionists and pro-slavery citizens take part in a large massacre that killed radical John Brown?
Bleeding Kansas.
400
State three things the enthusiasm for U.S. territorial expansion resulted in.
(1) War, (2) Opening of new markets, (3) Acquisition of new territory and (4) Increased ideological conflicts.
400
They were shows that consisted of white actors in black face. They consisted of comedy routines, dances, and instrumental solos. These shows displayed how whites saw blacks as lazy and uneducated.
What are minstrel shows?
400
During the debate over the Compromise of 1850, northern antislavery forces were particularly outraged by what they considered the "betrayal" of this senator.
Who is Daniel Webster?
400
An Act that wrecked the Compromise of 1850 and created deep divisions within the Democratic Party.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
Who were the Copperheads?
Members of the North who supported slaves and felt the war was unnecessary.
500
What did the Manifest Destiny and America's new expansionist foreign policy/territorial expansion lead to? Explain.
Environmental transformation of the land (such as the 1870's decline of Buffalo and erosion of soil), new economic activities (for example, railroad construction), increased regional tensions between the North and South (especially regarding the concept of free VS. slave states), and increased settlement in areas to be forcibly taken from American Indians.
500
A proposal to outlaw slavery in the territory added to the United States by the Mexican Cession; it was passed in the House of Representatives but was defeated in the Senate. Although it was defeated, it transformed the topic of slavery in America.
What is the Wilmot Proviso? What is its importance?
500
An Illinois politician who helped smooth over sectional conflict in 1850 but then reignited it in 1854.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
500
A proposition that stated the exclusion of slavery in a territory (where it was legal) could be determined by the refusal of the voters to enact any laws that would protect slave property. Stated by Stephen Douglass during the Lincoln-Douglass debates, and eventually led to his loss in the 1860 presidential election.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
500
What was the agency called, established in 1865, that helped former slaves adjust to normal life?
Freedman's Bureau.
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