Slaves
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
All escaped Slaves must be returned to their owner.
What caused the Republican party to form?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
True or False: Northers advocated to keep slavery.
False.
Who was Dred Scott?
An enslaved African american working in a free state.
What resulted in the Whig Party breaking up?
The Anti-Slave party and Pro-Slave party were created.
How did Congress break the Constitution in their Court?
They did not grant citizenship to slaves and gave them no rights.
Who was named President of the Confederate States?
Jefferson Davis.
What are some of the differences between the North and South.
North was anti-slavery, South used Slaves for income, North believed they had rights, South believed they were nothing more than a fields hand.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
An american politician that became President of the Confederate States (pro-slave states).
Why was Congress hesitant on giving new states Statehood?
It would make Congress unbalanced for Pro and Anti Slave states.
What was the Free Soil Party?
A political party that stood for Antiy-Slavery.
Who won the election of 1856?
James Buschanan.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
A small war between Anti-Slavery and Pro-Slavery forces over Popular Sovereignty.
Who was Justice Taney?
She was a judge that ruled a free slave back to his owner even though he was in a free state.
Which states seceded from the Union in February 1861?
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
It was an act that outlawed slavery in all states.
What was the Dred Scott vs Standford case about?
It was about Dred Scott suing his owner but the Court would not allow it as he was a slave and was deemed to have no rights in Court.
What was Popular Sovereignty?
The people of the state would vote and choose if they wanted their state to be a free state or slave state.
Who was Robert Lee?
A confederate military officer that stopped John Brown and his slave uprising?
The Kansas-Nebraska act was:
2 lands applying for statehood that would unbalance Congress's Pro and Anti Slavery states.
What did Harper's Ferry have to do with Slave Uprising?
The slaves John Brown freed helped him move up south to free even more slaves and arm them to fight the Confederate army.
What could the Court do if one person pleaded that an African American was a slave before?
The court could send them to a plantation no matter where they were.
How did John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry increase tensions between the North and South?
Over his hanging, the reactions do his death, the North honoring him as a hero and the South being horrified, caused everyone to go over the edge at each other.
Who was John Brown?
A hardcore american abolitionist that caused a huge uprising of Slaves at Harper Ferry.
Why was the Union afraid of the South seceding?
They would break off into their own country.