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What is the name of laws requiring Northerners not to capture escaped slaves?
Personal Liberty Laws
What law passed in 1793, did not compel states to enforce it?
Fugitive Slave Act
Who stated America faced ‘an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces...and will, sooner or later, become either a slave-holding nation or entirely a free-labor nation.’
William Seward
What did Southern states would fear would happen when Lincoln took office?
Slavery is banned
How did Southern states view Lincoln?
Abolitionist
What led to an increase in the number of slaves?
Cotton boom
The Missouri Compromise was repealed by what law in 1854?
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Name the Democratic and Republican candidates for the election of 1860
Republican- Seward, Lincoln & Hamlin
Democrat- Douglas, Bell, Breckenridge & Davis
According to one school of thought, what were the three attempts to prevent the Civil War
Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Missouri Compromise, proposed by Henry Clay stated what?
1. Missouri is a slave state.
2. Maine is a free state.
3. Slavery is banned north of the 36’30”.
Name the plan the United States used to offer Spain $100 million for the purchase of Cuba
Ostend Manifesto
Name the founder and editor of the Liberator Newspaper?
William Lloyd Garrison
Name the plan that was to arm the slaves and overthrow slave power
Harper's Ferry
According Lincoln what was the central issue of the southern states rebellion?
Secession
Name the conflict in which the Alamo took place
Lone Star Rebellion
Name a division between the North and South region of the US during 1820, besides proslavery and abolitionist?
North- supports tariffs, supports internal improvements, supports National Bank & increasingly abolitionist
South- opposes tariffs, opposes internal improvements, opposes National Bank & increasingly supports slavery
Name 3 impacts of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act?
1.Increased resentment in the North.
2.Limited the rights of escaping slaves.
3. Punished those who were found helping slaves escape.
4. Stated Personal Liberty Laws passed by states were illegitimate interferences.
5. Many free African Americans were arrested and sent to plantations as slaves.
Name the Supreme Court case and the former law it overturned by stating Congress had no authority to limit the constitutional right of individuals to transport property.
Dred Scott Case/ Missouri Compromise
Name 3 of the proposals from the Crittenden Compromise
1. Restore Missouri Compromise line, extending it westward to Pacific Ocean.
2. Congress was forbidden to abolish slavery in places under its jurisdiction, such as a military post, within a slave state.
3. Congress could not abolish slavery in the District of Columbia so long as it existed in the adjoining states of Virginia and Maryland and without the consent of the District's inhabitants.
4. Congress could not prohibit or interfere with the interstate slave trade.
5. Congress would provide full compensation to owners of rescued fugitive slaves.
6. No future amendment of the Constitution could change these amendments or authorize or empower Congress to interfere with slavery within any slave state.
By removing the Missouri Compromise, 36,30 line would allow the expansion of slavery where?
Midwest
Name the key point of the Compromise of 1850 (Hint: there are 4)
1. California becomes a free state.
2. Popular sovereignty is used in Utah and New Mexico to determine if they will be slave or free.
3. Slave trade is banned in Washington, D.C.
4. A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed.
Border Ruffians ere pro-slavery citizens coming from which state?
Missouri
States south of this line did not have Lincoln on the ballot?
Mason Dixon Line
What was Jefferson Davis's wanted to turn the southern rebellion into what?
War of Southern Independence
What document established that the practice of slavery could not be imposed on any territory or state and supported idea that popular sovereignty could prevent the spread of slavery?
Freeport Doctrine