Conflicts
What territorial conflict predated the Civil War but prompted new questions about the expansion of slavery in the West?
Mexican-American war
(1846-1848)
California is free, slave trade is abolished in DC, remaining Mexico cession has no slave restriction, new more stringent fugitive slave law
What infamous abolitionist used extreme violence to spread their message during Bleeding Kansas?
John Brown
What political party was pro-slavery?
What is Manifest Destiny?
The belief in Americans 'God-given right' to expand westward
What was the act of violence in Congress between two Senate members?
Caning of Charles Sumner
(1856)
Acting Opportunity!!!!!!!
What was popular sovereignty?
The people within a state vote to either introduce or ban slavery in that state
Who did Abe Lincoln debate in the Senate races?
Stephen A Douglas
What is the difference between Abolitionists and the Free Soilers party?
Abolitionists wanted the complete eradication of slavery from the US while the Free Soilers only wanted to prevent its spread into new states
What were the first two political parties?
Federalists and Democratic-Republicans (Anti-Federalists)
What was stolen and by who during the raid on Harpers Ferry?
John Brown and his followers captured a federal arsenal (weapons)
(1859)
Which Supreme Court case ruled the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional?
Dred Scott v. Sanford
(1857)
James Buchanan
How many candidates ran in the election of 1860?
4
What British Act during the colonial era required colonists to provide food and housing for British soldiers?
Quartering Act of 1765
Acting Opportunity!!!!!
What is the name of the state the Mormons proposed before the forming of Utah and the Mormon War?
Deseret
(1858)
How did people determine which territory would likely be free and which would likely be slave after the Kansas-Nebraska Act? (be specific)
Nebraska was bordering Iowa which was a free state, while Kansas bordered Missouri which was a slave state
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
(1852)
What factions made up the new Republican party during the Civil War?
The Republican party was a coalition of former Democrats, Whigs, and Free Soilers
What is the name of the treaty that ceded Florida to the United States and accepted Spain's claim of Texas?
Adans-Onís Treaty
(1819)
During the settling of California between 1848 and 1861, how many Native people died or were displaced by the influx of colonists and foreign immigrants?
80,000
What latitude line delineated the Northern limit of slavery determined by the Missouri Compromise?
36º 30'
Who was the Chief Justice during the Dred Scott ruling in the Supreme Court?
Roger B Taney
(1857)
What kind of people joined the Constitutional Union Party?
Conservative former Whigs who didn't want to vote for the Republican or Democratic parties but didn't want the South to secede from the Union
What sparked the transcendentalist movement?
European romanticism and the shifting of societal norms