Question | Answer |
Unit 5 Part A | Knowledge |
What was the main aim or purpose of the Compromise of 1850? | Made California a free state |
Who wrote it? | Henry Clay |
Who got it passed in Congress in five pieces? | Stephen Douglas |
What were the three concessions for the North in it? | California becomes a free state.
No more slave trade in Washington D.C.
Congress could no longer regulate slave trade between slave states. |
What were the two concessions for the South in it? | Popular Sovereignty(voting for slavery or free) in territories of Utah and New Mexico
Stricter Fugitive Slave Law. Northerners had to help return escaped slaves. |
Why did the North get mad about the Fugitive Slave Act? | Free Africans were being caught and made slaves.
Protests and violence broke out in cities trying to protect free African citizens. |
What was the Kansas Nebraska Act? | The people were to vote whether the Kansas or Nebraska territory would be free or a slave state. |
What did it do the Missouri Compromise? | It killed the Missouri Compromise which said none of this area could be slave. |
Who came up wit the Kansas Nebraska Act? | Stephen Douglas |
Why did he want it? | He wanted a transcontinental railroad where he could make money off of the land. |
Who approved it after Congress? | Franklin Pierce |
Who illegally voted in Kansas? | Missourians who didn't live there. |
Who killed people who were for slavery in the Kansas territory? | John Brown |
What happened in Kansas? | Two governments were formed: Antislavery and Proslavery or slave and free |
What was Kansas called because of the violence? | Bleeding Kansas |
Who was beaten by Preston Brooks with a cane? | Charles Sumner who was against slavery and spoke against Andrew Butler of South Carolina |
What was the country heading for? | Civil War |
Who won the Election of 1860? | Abraham Lincoln |
What party was Lincoln? | Republican |
Why did he get the most electoral votes? | The northern region which supported freedom for slaves voted for him. |
What was different about this election? | Voters voted along regional beliefs for their candidates who believed like them. North for Free South for Slave |
Why did the South secede? | The fear of Lincoln and his reputation toward slavery. |
What did the North continue to violate of the Southern states? | Their states rights. |
What was the first state to break away? | South Carolina. |
What was the actual event that started the Civil War. | The firing upon Fort Sumter. Fort Sumter being attacked. |