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American History
chapter 1-2&1-3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When was the Fugitive Slave Act? | 1850 |
| What did the fugitive slave law ask of? | Required all citizens in north and south to catch runaway slaves if they helped runaways they would be fined or imprisoned |
| who said: "If the law required you to be the cause of injustice to another, then i say, break the law!" | Henry David Thoreau |
| When was " Bleeding Kansas"? | May of 1856 |
| What was the Kansas- Nebraska act? | A compromise to have popular soveignty in the new states of kansas and nebraska |
| What happened in Kansas after the Kansas Nebraska act | border ruffians were voting and there were two seperate governments one in the North and one in the South |
| what were border ruffians? | people from missouri who traveled in large armed groups to vote in the kansas government election. |
| where was the bleeding kansas attack? | In Lawrence, Kansas |
| What happened during " Bleeding Kansas"? | Pro Slavery groups attacked abolitoinists in Lawrence and burned many houses and offices. John Brown retaliated and killed five slavery supporters along Pottawatomie Creek |
| What happened in congress after bleeding kansas? | Charles Sumner the senator insulted pro-slavery people such as Andrew P. Butler. |
| What happened after Charles Sumner insulted Andrew Butler?> | Butler's cousin hit Sumner with a cane until he was unconsious |
| who developed the kansas nebraska act? | Stephen A. Douglas |
| what was the wilmot Proviso? | A bill passed in the house, but not senate that stated all land won from mexico should be free land |
| What were the parts of the compromise of 1850? | -California would be free state -People would decide if the rest of the land (Utah and NM) would be free or slave states -No slave trading in the new land, but slaves were allowed -Fugitive slave law more strictly enforced |
| Who made the compromise of 1850? | Henry Clay |
| Who won the 1852 election and who lost? | Franklin Pierce #14 beat Winfield Scott |
| Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin? | Harriet Beacher Stowe |
| Who won and lost in the election of 1856? | James Buchanon #15 won Millard Fillmore and Freemont lost |
| Who was Dred Scott? | A slave who lived with his owner in Illinois and Wisconsin (free states) and then back to Missouri where his owner died. Dred Scott sued for his freedom because he had once lived in free teritory |
| what was John C. Freemont's slogan when running for president? | " Free Soil, Free speech, and Freemont." |
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