Name that Compromise
After this compromise the number of free and slave states went from 11 each to 12 each
Missouri Compromise
What was the main reason for these compromises? What changed in the nation?
New land from Manifest Destiny / the Mexican American War
Effect of Fugitive Slave Law on Abolition
Abolitionists more resolved in their fight; The act brought the subject of slavery before the nation.
Many who had previously been ambivalent about slavery now took a definitive stance against the institution.
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established second / third generations against those of immigrants / BIPOC people.
Nativism
What did John Brown
Fought in Bleeding Kansas
1859, he led a small band of followers, including his four sons and some formerly enslaved people, to attack the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry to use guns from the arsenal to arm Virginia’s enslaved African Americans, whom he expected to rise up in revolt.
The Souths Worst Nightmare
This compromise brought Maine in as a free state
Missouri Compromise
He is mostly responsible for the the Compromise of at850
Henry Clay
Results of Taney's Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) decision
Black Americans could not be considered citizens and Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories of the United States
thus the compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional .
A short-lived political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party: opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories
The Free Soil Party
Why did Lincoln win the presidency in 1860?
4 parties divided the country, allowing Lincoln to win with only 39% of the votes.
California enters as a free state
Compromise of 1850
What is Popular Sovereignty?
People IN that state / territory decide if there state will be a free or a slave state
What was the stance of Republicans at this time concerning slavery?
willing to accept slavery where it existed but opposed further expansion to the territories / states
Who made up most of the Know Nothing Party
Nativists
Why did the south seceded?
The south FALSELY believed Lincoln and the Republicans would work to end slavery in the south.
To protect their state's rights of slavery
The Year of the Missouri Compromise
1820
In the compromise of 1850, what happened to D.C?
The slave trade, but not slavery, was banned in D.C
What were some effects of the Fugitive Slave Act on Black Americans
Some fled, around 20,000 to Canada
Some stayed put, despite being tracked (Harriet Jacobs in New York)
Some were captured and retuned to slavery (Anthony Burns, Boston)
Some free born free Black folks were captured and sold into slavery (Solomon Northup)
Underground R.R. becomes more popular
The President when the South started to succeed, did nothing to start it. Lame Duck.
James Buchanan
What were some results from the Fort Sumpter Attack?
4 more states (North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee & Arkansas) seceded
War starts, and the Confederacy Started it.
Name all the territories that participated in Popular Sovereignty
Utah, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska
Name all aspects of the Fugitive Slave Law
It required citizens to assist in the recovery of fugitive slaves.
It denied a “fugitive's” right to a jury trial. (Cases would instead be handled by special commissioners who would be paid if an alleged fugitive was returned
More federal enforcement
Result of Bleeding Kansas:
Suggested to the American people that the sectional disputes were unlikely to reach compromise without bloodshed, and it therefore directly presaged the American Civil War.
Why were the border states important, and what were they?
MI, KT, WV, MD, DL
Lincoln needed them in the Union, they would have tipped the war in the Confederacy's favor