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Chapter 15 SMO
Question | Answer |
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Who made the Common Property Doctrine and what is it | John C. Calhoun; Congress had no right to ban slaves because slaves were common property to the states |
James G. Birney and "the slave power" | group of rich slave owners who wanted to control the South, maybe leading to speech limitations |
who took over Clay's Omnibus Bill (package) | Stephen Douglas |
What did Clay's Omnibus Bill end up being | Compromise of 1850 |
How did the Compromise of 1850 become law if Taylor opposed it | Taylor died from fruit and Fillmore approved it |
Five Provisions of Compromise of 1850 | California, Mexican Cession, Texas, Washington DC, Fugitive Slave Act |
Compromise of 1850: California | 16th free state |
Compromise of 1850: Mexican Cession | Arizona and New Mexico will use popular sovereignty to decide slave status |
Compromise of 1850: Texas | slave state (south benefits) |
Compromise of 1850: Washington DC | slave trade is ended |
Compromise of 1850: Fugitive Slave Act | Northern authorities had to catch and return runaway slaves |
Ableman v. Booth | Wisconsin passed personal liberty laws to nullify Fugitive Slave Act; Taney said federal law comes first |
Christiana, Pennsylvania 1851 | Black and white Quakers fought off slave catchers. Fillmore could not punish them |
Syracuse, New York 1851 | rioters broke into a court to free a fugitive |
Anthony Burns in Boston, Massachusetts | abolitionist group tried to save Burns and failed. Bostonians tried to buy his freedom and were denied. |
During the 1850s, ___ black fugitives were sent back into slavery, only __ declared free | 322, 11 |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe, came out as a serial, vivid accounts of slavery, response to FSA |
Election of 1852: parties (3) | cotton whigs, conscience whigs, democrat |
Election of 1852 winner | Franklin Pierce (doughface) |
Perry and Japan 1853 | Matthew Perry got a treaty to trade with Japan, declared Pacific Ocean as manifest destiny |
Ostend Manifesto 1854 | Belgium: Soule forced Spanish to sell Cuba for $130mil secretly |
Canadian Reciprocity Treaty 1854 | US fishermen can fish in Canadian waters |
William Walker and Nicaragua 1855-1857 | led three invasions of Nicaragua: 1. became ruler, 2. failed, 3. executed by Honduras |
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 made by whom | Stephen Douglas |
Kansas-Nebraska Act provisions | repeals 36 30, Kansas and Nebraska will use popular sovereignty to determine slave status, make a railroad |
Border Ruffians | Missouri to Kansas: made proslavery strongholds in Kansas to make dominant proslavery votes |
New England Emigrant Aid Society was fueled by whom and what is it | Tappan Brothers, wanted to bring immigrants to Kansas to make it free |
Lawrence, Kansas | held election for Kansas to be free/slave. Border ruffians burned this place and fought |
John Brown and Pottawotamie, Kansas | led his sons to proslavery settlement and killed people |
Who got beaten with a cane and who had the cane? | Beaten: Charles Sumner / Beater: Preston Brooks |
American Party nickname and wtf did they do | Know-Nothings: did not accomplish much, anti-immigrant, cause of Whig break up |
Republican Party 1854 formation | north party, keep union, no slavery extension, temperance, high protective tariffs, fed funds for internal, free land |
Why was Buchanan a safe DEMOCRAT nominee for Election of 1856? | he was out of the country during the Kansas issue and vague about slaves |
Election of 1856: republican candidate | John C. Fremont |
Election of 1856: Know-Nothing candidate | Millard Fillmore |
Election of 1856: winner | James Buchanan |
Scott v. Sandford | Taney said government cannot interfere with property (blacks) in territories, only citizens and not blacks can bring suits to federal court |
Lecompton Constitution 1857 | a set-up, proslavery draft by Kansas delegates, supported by Buchanan, Kansas was a slave state |
Final decision of Kansas and why | Buchanan supported it, Douglas opposed it because it violated popular sovereignty: defeated, Kansas is free |
Panic of 1857 | industrial North and little impact on Southern cash-crop economy because cotton was abroad |
Lincoln-Douglas debates | viewpoints on slavery, Illinois senate race |
Views shared by both Lincoln and Douglas | no slavery and no extension, slavery is not economically efficient, no force-abolish of slavery, blacks were inferior to whites |
(Freeport Doctrine) Lincoln's question to Douglas and answer | "did the dred scott end popular sovereignty" and douglas said no. he won the senate seat |
John Brown's Raid 1859 | raid in Harpers Ferry, VA: failed. righteous eloquence, defended abolitionists instead of himself bc he was ready to die |
Election of 1860: parties (4) | Northern Democrats, Southern Democrats, Constitutional Union Party, Republican Party |
Election of 1860: Northern Democrats candidate and platform | Stephen Douglas, end slavery |
Election of 1860: Southern democrats candidate and platform | John Breckinridge, extension of slavery |
Election of 1860: Constitutional Union Party candidate and platform | John Bell, slavery compromise |
Election of 1860: Republican candidate and platform | Lincoln: high tariff, no slave expansion, free land, immigrants are welcome, transcontinental railroad |
Election of 1860: winner | Lincoln |
1860: what was the first southern state to secede | South Carolina |
Crittenden Compromise | last ditch effort to continue 36 30 to cut CA in half. failed because S wanted slavery and N didn't want an amendment |
Three positions taken by Lincoln about secession | 1. no extension of slavery, 2. trying to contain slavery, 3. secession is unconstitutional |
CSA in Montgomery, Alabama | made CSA and constitution |
CSA president and VP | Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens |
Fire-eaters | Southerners who really wanted secession |