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Section 1 8th grade
chapter 15 section 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Note main idea | after the mexican american war america got 500,oo acers of land causeing tention about slavery in new land |
| Popular sovereignty | the idea that politcal power belongs to the people |
| Note | Popular sovereignty was a idea on fixing the problum with the new land |
| Note | some northerners wanted to outlaw slavery in all parts of the mexican cession |
| Wilmont Proviso | was a document that stated no slavery in mexican cession it was passed by northen controulled house but nout be th southern majority of the senate |
| Sectionlism | the favering the interests of one setion or region the then intirests of the entire country |
| Note | to atract voters democrates and the whig party did not take a clear positon of slavery in the presidentel campigen of 1848 |
| Note | in responce antslavery northeners formed a new party the Free Soil Party |
| Free Soil Party | a party that supportede wilmot Proviso |
| Note "The California Question" | the californa gold rush caused rapid populaiton growth that cailfornia applied to join the union as a state instead of as a territory but is still geting desputed over for a free or not slave state |
| Note | most californens oppsed slavery |
| Note "Compromise of 1850" | Senter Henry Clay made a compromise so that both sides could get they want from claiforina |
| Compromise of 1850 | by this compormise califronia was able to be admmited as a free state |
| Note | the rest of the mexican sessin was turn into two states utah and new mexico and popular sovernigty would chose if they hade slavery or not |
| Fugitave Slave Act | a act that made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officals to areast those slaves in free areas |
| Note | Fugitave Slave Act made it hard for slaves to defend them selves in court agienst a testominy from a slaveholder |
| Note | Fugitave Slave Act made many peopele angrey >: |
| Note | peace was used alot to protest agseinst the Fugitave Slave Act but not always |
| Anthony Burns | a virginia fugitive slave, was aressted in boston abolititionists used force to rescuehim from jail and ended up killeing a deupty marshel |
| Note | antslavery believers started to wright anntyslavery literature |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | the wrighter of uncle tom's cabin who spoke out about antslavery |
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