Chapter 13
The most popular trail to head west because of the promise of rich soil and good weather
What is the Oregon trail?
Lincoln was a lawyer from this state
What is Illinois?
Believed land from Mexican Cession would be “free soil”, no slavery.
What is the Free-Soil Party?
This person is known as the "Great Compromiser"
Who is Henry Clay?
Enslaved person who sued for his freedom
Who is Dred Scott?
This president is credited with starting the Mexican American War.
Who is James K. Polk?
The nickname for Kansas due to the violence of the vote for Kansas to be a free or slave state
What is Bleeding Kansas?
People from that area vote directly on the issues not elected officials.
What is popular sovereignty?
This state became a free state in the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
The level of court that the Dred Scott v Sanford case got too.
The Mormons moved to this territory after their leader was killed.
What is Utah?
This man would become Lincoln's rival professionally and personally.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this book about an enslaved man.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
Slave trade was banned in this area of the Compromise of 1850.
What is Washington D.C.?
The occupation of Dred Scott's master.
What is an Army Doctor?
Name of the place where the Texas Army held against the Mexican Army with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie
What is the Alamo?
This congressman was beaten with a cane by Congressman Preston Brooks because he spoke out against slavery.
Congressman Charles Sumner
In 1846 this proposal would of stopped slavery from being legal in all land won in the Mexican American War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
White Northerners were required to identify and help capture fugitives with this law.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The areas of the U.S. that Dred Scott lived with his master that slavery was illegal
What is Illinois and Wisconsin?
The name of the treaty that ended the Mexican American War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Kansas-Nebraska Act made this compromise now useless.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The two spokesperson for the North and South that debated over the Compromise of 1850.
Who is John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster?
Popular Sovereignty was used in these territories to decide slavery
What is Utah and New Mexico Territory?
Name of the Court Justice who decided the Dred Scott v. Sanford Case.
Who is Roger B. Taney?