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List 2 factors in the North's economy
What are Railroads, Industrialization, Immigrant labor.
These laws, passed by __ northern states, guaranteed runaway slaves a trial by jury.
9. What is Personal Liberty Laws.
An editor of the NY times, a former Whig, and one of the founders of the Republican Party.
Who is Horace Greeley.
__________ sued for his freedom since he had lived in a free state and territory. __________ decided that the plaintiff was still a slave.
Dred Scott, Judge Roger B. Taney
a political doctrine in which the people of federal territories decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave state.
What is Popular Sovereignty
____________, a pioneer of the Underground Railroad, accomplished ___ trips to the South and freed over ____ slaves.
Harriet Tubman. 19. 300.
Representing the Democratic party and the winner of the 1852 Presidential Election.
Who is Franklin Pierce.
Douglas' response to Lincoln's question regarding Popular Sovereignty is known as the ____________.
Freeport Doctrine
Discuss the Missouri Compromise. What did the agreement entail?
The Missouri Compromise, 1820, outlawed slavery in any new states north of the 36° 30’ line, with the exception of Missouri.
This writer is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and highlighted the moral struggle for freedom.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe.
This movement favored native-born Americans and opposed Immigrants and Roman Catholics.
What is Nativism.
The political party and candidate who won the Presidential Election of 1860.
Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln.
Elaborate on the Wilmot Proviso. What was it?
Wilmot Proviso opposed the expansion of slavery on the newly acquired land. The proposed bill would forbid slavery in all new territory. Bill failed.
This constitution made Kansas a slave state after the results of the voting polls.
What is the Lecompton Constitution.
Describe the main focus of The Free Soil Party.
This party was largely focused on opposing the expansion of slavery into the new territories of the United States. They saw slave labor as a threat to the workforce.
The first state to secede from the Union was _________, followed by ___ other states.
South Carolina, 6.
Describe the Compromise of 1850. Discuss all the factors associated with this compromise.
CA enters Union as a free state, TX gets $10 million to settle border, NM and UT get popular sovereignty, DC ends the slave trade, The South gets a stronger Fugitive Slave Law.
Discuss the Kansas-Nebraska Act. What did it do?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed for popular sovereignty in the newly acquired land.
Discuss the political parties and its candidates involved in the election of 1856. Lastly, who won?
The Democrats–James Buchanan, Republican–John C. Fremont, Know Nothings–Millard Fillmore
Buchanan won the election
The first President and first Vice President of the CSA were _________ & __________.
Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens.