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23 Cards in this Set
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What problem did the new U.S borders bring?
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Slavery: the new borders made a majority of the new states become free states. Southerners did not find this fair.
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What was the Wilmot Proviso?
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The Wilmot Proviso was a speech given by David Wilmot and said the states from the Mexican Cession (California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado) were to be free states.
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What is popular sovereignty?
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• lets the people decide
• key concept to understand people's lives in different states • MAJORITY RULES |
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What party were the majority of people in the Free Soil Party previously a part of?
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Democratic and Whig
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Was the Free Soil Party proslavery or antislavery?
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Antislavery
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What was the Free Soil Party's slogan?
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"Free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men."
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What was the Free Soil Party's goal?
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To have no slavery in the western territories.
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Who was Martin Van Buren? Was he proslavery or antislavery?
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He was the Free Soil Party's presidential candidate.
• Antislavery |
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How much of the presidential vote did the Free Soil Party get?
How many Congress seats did they get? |
• 10% of the vote
• 13 Congress seats |
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What were the differences between the North and South when it came to slavery?
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• North: antislavery and abolitionists
• South: want slaves and saw northerners as a threat to their way of life and saw slaves as property |
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Who was Zachary Taylor? How did he die?
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• war hero
• died in office from food poisoning six months into his term and Milliard Fillmore fills in for him |
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Who was Henry Clay?
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• helped settle 1820 issues
• is called to help with the Great Compromise |
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Who was Daniel Webster?
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• said disunion was the problem
• thought disunion was worse than slavery; "There can be no such thing as peaceable secession." |
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Who was John Calhoun?
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• leader for secession
• dies before the formal declaration |
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What are the five parts of the Great Compromise of 1850?
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• California enters the union as a free state
• Mexican Cession became two states - Utah and New Mexico - and slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty • Texas debt is paid by giving up claims in New Mexico • No slave trade in Washington, D.C • New fugitive slave law - $1,000 fine and six months in jail |
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What were the problems brought to Northerners by the Fugitive Slave Law?
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If they were caught harboring slaves or helping them they would pay a $1,000 fine and spend six months in jail.
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What were the two prices judges would decide between when slaves were brought into their court?
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• $10 to send the slaves back
- OR - • $5 to set them free |
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What was the moral issue behind Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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Even though the book was fictional, the horrors of slavery were shown and made people view the truth.
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What was an Uncle Tom back in the 1800's? What is an Uncle Tom today?
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An Uncle Tom used to be someone who had a love of blacks. Now it's said to be a submissive black.
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What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
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• inforced popular sovereignty to decide if Kansas and Nebraska were to be slave or free
• undid the Missouri Compromise of 1820 • makes northerners protest by fighting the Fugitive Slave Law • makes Kansas a battle ground |
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How was it decided if Kansas was to be a slave or free state?
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• anti and pro slavery people rush to establish residency to be able to make decision in Kansas
• people in Missouri crossed the border and made Kansas a slave state • meant DEATH to those who helped slaves |
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What were Kansas' two capitals? How far away from each other were they?
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• Topeka and Lecompton
• 25 miles apart |
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Who was John Brown? What was the Pottawatomie Massacre?
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John Brown was a man who wanted to punish pro slavery.
• he moved to settle on the north side of the Pottawatomie Creek • many killed in "mini Civil War" • attempted to move back east and answer questions about Pottawatomie Massacre • termed "Bleeding Kansas" |
