Slavery and the West
What was the 'issue' when Missouri requested statehood from Congress in 1819? What was the decision?
The balance of power between free and slave states. Maine was admitted as a free state.
What is a fugitive?
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
How did the South feel about the Fugitive Slave Act? How did the North feel?
A person running away
A US law that required slaves in free states to be brought back to the South
South: happy
North: angry
Who debated over the issue of slavery?
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas
What brought Southerners together as they pushed for secession in 1860? What does it mean?
Protecting their state's rights.
The idea that the Southern states had more control or power than the US government.
What was the issue with popular sovereignty in Kansas when voting on the issue of slavery?
They ended up with four times as many ballots as people who voted.
Who took over US presidency in 1850 after President Zachary Taylor died?
Millard Fillmore
What two attacks were led by John Brown?
John Brown murdered 5 proslavery men at Pottawatomie Creek and led 18 men to attack the US arsenal of Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Which states did Dred Scott say he had lived in? Why was this important?
Illinois and Minnesota (Wisconsin Territory)
His having lived in a free state was the main argument for why he should be free.
What presidential action in 1860 convinced Southern states to secede?
President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteer soldiers to force the South back into the US.
Which country demanded that the US government return the 44 Africans captured on the La Amistad in 1839?
Who was the former US president who argued for the 44 Africans in the La Amistad Case that made it to the US Supreme Court?
Spain
John Quincy Adams
Who proposed the Missouri Compromise in 1820? (Known as the Great Compromiser)
Henry Clay
What was the nickname given to the Kansas Territory in the 1850s? What is significant about it?
Bleeding Kansas & it was one of the first times that white Americans were fighting and killing each other over the issue of African slavery.
Which state's US Senate race was the center of national attention in the congressional election of 1858? Who lost and why is that important?
Illinois
Abraham Lincoln and because he became well-known across the nation.
What is the definition of secession? What was the first state to officially secede? What state's secession had the most impact on the US?
The withdrawal of the South from the Union
South Carolina
Virginia
What happened in the territory of Kansas in 1855, once the election said it would become a slave state?
Two different governments were created.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
What did John C. Calhoun argue?
The proposal to ban slavery in all the new territories taken from Mexico (Texas, New Mexico, and California).
Congress had no right to interfere.
What happened between Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks?
Senator Charles Sumner was beaten almost to death by Representative Preston Brooks because he had publicly criticized slavery and South Carolina and its senator in a speech on the Senate floor.
What is the song that the president of the US hears whenever he enters a room in any ceremonial or official capacity?
Hail to the Chief
Who was the 1860 presidential candidate whose name was NOT on the ballot in most Southern states? How did he still win?
Abraham Lincoln
The Democratic Party split and sent two candidates.
VOCAB:
Arsenal
Martyr
Treason
A site used by the US army to house their weapons
A person who gives their life for a cause
Committing a crime against your nation
What US fort was fired upon in 1861 by the South Carolina militia after refusing to evacuate and turn over their weapons, and sparked the Civil War? What was the only casualty?
Fort Sumter.
A mule.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? What is the word for what it allowed? Who proposed it? What did it end and how?
The law proposed by Stephen Douglas that allowed voters to decide on the issue of slavery in western territories.
Popular sovereignty: the idea of letting citizens vote on issues such as slavery
It ended the Missouri Compromise since now slavery could go on either side of the 36 30 line.
Who was the Chief Justice in the Dred Scott case?
What amendment did he reference?
What was the ruling of the US Supreme Court Case against Dred Scott?
Roger B. Taney
5th
Scott was not free, slaves were considered property, and states had no right to ban slavery in any US territory.
As the North continued to put pressure on the issue of slavery, what realization did the South have?
Southern states started to realize that their economies and cultures were too different from the North's to stay united.
How did the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act help lead to the Civil War?
Each one did not do much to solve the issue of slavery between states and pushed off a final decision on the issue.