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chapter 10 study
chapter 10 study guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the Freeport Doctrine? | Douglas’ response to Lincoln's question, “ Could residents of a territory vote to exclude slav |
| Why did Buchanan support the Lecompton Constitution? | he was trying to appease southerners they got him elected as president also the small number of slaves in Kansas made the issue unimportant. |
| Who was Jefferson Davis? | Former senator from Mississippi, unanimously elected as president of the confederacy on Feb. 9th, 1861 |
| What was the Wilmot Proviso & what did it propose? | a bill that wanted to ban slavery in all that the us gained as a result of the Us Mexican war. |
| What was the platform of the Free Soil Party? | Prevent slavery from spreading to new territories |
| What was the main fear of secession? | it would result in war and the ultimate breakup of the union |
| What was the American Party’s platform and what was the other name for the party? | they supported nativism and particularly dislike Catholic immigrants. They promoted temperance, a 21 year old wait for citizenship, and no political office for immigrants. They were also known as the Know Nothing Party |
| What was the Compromise of 1850 and who supported it? | Ca =free state more effective fugitive slave law 10 million to texes to give up claim on NM territory popular sovereignty in ut and nm territories no slave trade in dc supported by clay Douglas Fillmore |
| What was Nativism? | favoring natural born citizens over immigrants, opposed immigrants |
| What was popular sovereignty? | allowing the people of a territory to vote and deiced the issue of slavery ins ted of congress doing so |
| How did the issue of slavery permanently divide the Whig Party? | it divided the Whig Party. Northern Whigs disliked the Fugitive Slave Act and only gave moderate support to the Compromise of 1850. |
| How did the issue of slavery permanently divide the Whig Party? | It divided the Whig Party. Northern Whigs disliked the Fugitive Slave Act and only gave moderate support to the Compromise of 1850. |
| What helped get the Compromise of 1850 passed? | Stephen Douglas Brok it down into individual measures which int much easier to get the votes needed |
| What issue united the Republican Party and became its platform? | Oppositions to the Kansas- Nebraska Act AND stopping the spread slavery to the western territories |
| What was the Dred Scott decision? What effect did it have on the North? | chief justest Taney and the Cort rule that slav see notes |
| Who won the Presidential election of 1856? Why is that important to the Union? | James Buchanan (Democrat from PA) It meant that the Southern states would not yet attempt secession |
| Why was the presidential election of 1856 important to the growth of the Republican Party? | it established the party as an alternative to Whigs and Democrats it showed that the republicans would be powerful contenders in the future. |
| What were the Lincoln-Douglas Debates? | A series of 7 open air deabtes. The primary topic of conversation was was slavery in the territories. |
| Who was Harriet Tubman? | she was a former slave that become one of the most well know conductors of the under ground rail road she also became a vocal supporter of abolition . |
| What were the “Know-Nothings” known for? | Anti- immigrant feelings, secret handshakes and passwords |
| Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe? | author of uncle tom’s cabin which was a dramatic portrayal of the brutality of slavery in the south |
| Who was Horace Greeley | He was a founder of the Republican Party and editor in chief of the New York Tribune |
| Why was the Southern economy so dependent on slaves? | the south was still moistly rural and had an economy based on agriculture with large plantations and little or no factories |
| What was Lincoln’s view on slavery in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858? Compare and contrast this to Douglas’ argument. | Lincoln belived that slavery was imoral, social and politically wrong. |
| What was proposed in 1850 to avoid civil war over the issue of slavery? | Henry clay proposed the compromised of 1850 Calhoun showed strong opposing and it was Finlay passed when Douglas unbundled the individual measure. |
| What was the Fugitive slave Act & how did the North resist it? | Forced Northerners to return slaves to their owners. |
| What was the result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | the Missouri comprised was repealed which cleared the way for popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska this also ignited violence n the area and increased debate about slavery |
| Who was John Brown & what were the effects of his actions at Harpers Ferry, VA (Think in terms of North v. South)? | A radical abolitionist who believed God called him to end slavery. He was anti slavery and violent |
| What Party did Lincoln leave to become the Republican nominee for president in 1860? | the Whig party |
| How did slavery affect U.S. political parties in 1860? | see notes |
| Why did South Carolina and other states secede from the Union? Name the first 7 states to secede. | Lincoln victory convinced southerns that they had lost their polemical voice in the Natal government southerns states feared political bondage and end of their entire way of life south Carolina Mississippi Florida Alabama Georgia Louisiana and Texes |
| What did Buchanan do about secession? | He announced that secession was illegal, but that it also would be illegal for him to do about it. He tied his own hands and was an ineffective leader. |
| Why was the South so upset by Lincoln’s election? | southerners believed that Lincoln's would seek to further reduce the states power and increased the Federal government power |
| Explain the impacts Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe has on antislavery attitudes in the North. | see notes |
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