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what is the NW ordinance of 1787?
A process to form new states. This law banned enslavement N of the Ohio River and Southern states were slavery states.
What is this called?
An agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the union as a state that allowed enslavement and Maine was also admitted but it banned enslavement N of the Ohio River.
The Missouri compromise
What was the rule that silenced all congressional debate over slavery which lasted 10 years?
the gag rule.
What are the 3 parts to the fugitive slave act?
1. A person arrested as a runaway had no legal rights.
2. Anyone helping an enslaved person escape slavery or refuse to help catchers would be arrested.
3. if you were caught a a runaway you would be returned to where you escaped from.
Can you answer both questions for double points?
did the admittance of Alabama make states with slavery equal or unequal?
was Alabama free or a slave state?
equal
slave state.
What was the Northerners reaction to the M.C?
Congressmen who voted to accept Missouri as a state with slavery were called traitors.
what was the 1831 turner rebellion? and what did the south fear? (DOUBLE POINTS!!)
Southen states adopted strict laws to control the movement of enslavers people. The South feared that abolitionist writings would reach enslaved people.
true or false:
In the Ostend Manifesto, 3 American diplomats met in Massachusetts to try and purchase Cuba from Spain and Spain agreed to give them the land.
false. Spain says no to the message and they met in Ostend, Belgium. (Spain says no so the message says they should take the land by force.)
what is the Tallmadge Amendment?
James Tallmadge proposed this amendment bill and it said Missouri could join the union as a free state. Southerners opposed and said each state should make its own decision
enslavers resented the ban on enslavement in territories that might later become states.
what is the proposal that prohibited slavery in the territory added to the U.S. as a result of the Mexican-American war?
Wilmot proviso
what did the Kansas-Nebraska act abolish?
it abolished the Missouri compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories.
What was the Missisippi river debate about?
Some Northerners in Congress questioned whether Missouri should be admitted as a state with slavery, because most of Missouri lay north of the point where the Ohio River flows into the Mississippi. On the eastern side of the Mississippi, enslavement was banned north of that point.
What was the 1800s revival that promised that God would bless those who did the Lords work?
The Second Great Awakening.
whatwas the Norths and Souths reaction to Californias statehood?
Norhterners welcomed and southerners rejected them
How was Congress deadlocked?
over if Missouri should have slavery or not. The house of Representatives voted to approve the Tallmadge Amendment, but the southerners defeated this in the Senate.
What was Adams proposal about? and was is approved?
He proposed a constitutional amendment saying that no one could be born into slavery after 1842. No, Congress refused this proposal.
what was the compromise of 1850?
who proposed the compromised and who helped pass it?
the agreements made in order to admit Cali. as a state with no slavery. This included N.Mexico and Utah territories to decide their opinions of slavery, outlawing trade of enslaved people in W. D.C.
proposed: Henry Clay
passed: Daniel Webster