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Ch.14 SocialS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Wilmot Proviso | a document stating that neither slavery nor involunatry servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territory |
| The new political party that supported the Wilmot Proviso | antislavery northerners formed the Free-Soil Party which supported the Proviso; they worried that slave labor would mean fewer jobs for white workers |
| Elements of the Compromise of 1850 | CA would enter the Union as a free state; the rest of the Mexican Cession would be fed. land and slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty; TX would give up land in the east of upper Rio Grande and the gov. would pay TX's debts |
| ^Cont. | slave trade would end in the nation's capital;better fugitive slave law passed |
| Henry Clay's role in the Compromise of 1850 | he designed the Compromise to give both sides things that they wanted |
| Significance of the Compromise of 1850 | California was able to enter the Union as a free state; outlawed the slave trade in the District of Colombia and established a new fugitive slave law |
| What distinguished Frederick Douglass from other slaves | |
| The boundary between slave and free states | |
| Why Uncle Tom's Cabin angered many southerners | |
| Why Stephen Douglas supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act | he wanted a line running through Chicagp and seperate the Lousiana purchase into federal territory |
| Effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act | eliminate the Missouri Compromise's restrictions on slavery North of the 36'30 line; antislavery northerners were outraged and they thought it was a horrible plot to turn free territory into a dreary region |
| Why southern Democrats supported Pierce for president | because he was a strong supporter of the Kansas-Nebrasks Act |
| Who led the Pottawatomie Massacre? | Abolitionist John Borwn was the leader of the massacre where 5 pro-slavery men where killed in kansas |
| What party did the Whigs, Democrats, Free-Soilers and abolotionists form? | the Republican Party which united against the spread of slavery in the West |
| The Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott | Taney declared that the Missouri Compromise restriction on slavery north 36'30 to be unconsitutional. 5th Amendment said no one could be deprived of life,liberty,of property without due process of law |
| What Lincoln accused Democrats of in his debates with Douglas | he stressed that the central issue of the campaign was the spread of slavery in the west. He said that the democrats were trying to spread slavery across the nation |
| Purpose of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates | |
| The Freeport Doctrine | This notion that the police would enforce the voters' decision if it contradicted the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case' put slavery question back in the hands of American citizens |
| Why John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry was a failure | becasue he was then convicted of treason, murder, and conspiracy because he got some of his men killed by marines |
| Lincoln's opinion of Harper's Ferry | he said"Brown agreed with us in thinking slavery wrong, but that cannot excuse violence, bloodshed, and treason" |
| Significance of the election of 1860 | |
| Why the Democratic Party wasn't a strong force in the election of 1860 | because Breckinridge supported slavery in some territories |
| Components of the Fugitive Slave Act | made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas |
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