Slavery & Territorial Expansion
What lead to the Wilmot Proviso?
What is Due to the new land gained by the victory of the Mexican-American War.
How did the Gold Rush in California caused issues between the North and South?
What is California's popularity increased and requested to be a Union state which caused southerns to become upset.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
What is made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas. People accused of being escaped slaves had to prove that they were not, which was often difficult or impossible. Also, escaped slaves who had lived in the North for years were returned to slavery if caught.
What lead after the abolishment of slavery.
Segregation.Amendments-13th,14th,and 15th
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
What is an 1846 proposal to outlaw slavery in the territory added to the United states by the Mexican Cession; passed in the house of representatives but defeated in the senate.
Why did many southerns disagree for California to be a Union?
What is It could cause and unbalance of free and slave states.
How many people became abolitionists after Harriet Book.
What is 2 million.
How are we affected today by slavery?
We are able to learn about the history behind slavery and how many generations ago people faught for there freedom.
Which Party supported the Wilmot Proviso?
What is the Free-Soil Party.
How could the admission of California as a slave state or a free state upset the balance between North and South?
What is Senators from the North and the South were concerned because each region had an equal number of senators. If California were admitted, either the North or the South would gain two additional senators, which would give that region a majority and an advantage when it came to making laws.
What are some examples of how the northern rebelled.
What is Mobs rescued enslaved people from northern police stations. They threatened slave catchers.
Why did congress have issues with the Wilmot Proviso?
What is it was an act of Sectionalism.
What was this section about?
What is How California could cause a unbalance of power between the north and south due to slavery and what the outcome of this conflict was.
Who was Anthony Burns?
What is An Enslaved African American, he ran away and was arrested in Boston. His arrest became the center of violent protests by northern opponents of the Fugitive Slave Act.
Explain what this section was about.
What is It discusses how new territories gained from the Mexican War caused disputes over the issue of slavery.
List all the outcomes of the Compromise of 1850.
What is California was able to enter the Union as a free state. The rest of the Mexican Cession was divided into two territories—Utah and New Mexico—where the question of whether to allow slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty. Texas agreed to give up its land claims in New Mexico in exchange for financial aid from the federal government. Lastly, the compromise outlawed the slave trade in the District of Columbia and established a new fugitive slave law.
What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe make?
Uncle Tom's Cabin.