USH Honros Chapter 10 Study Guide

Wilmot Proviso

Determined that all new territories gained from Mexico will not have slavery. North liked this.

What was Harriet Tubman’s nickname?

Moses

Who founded the Republican Party? How did it come to be?

Horace Greeley. Whig Party split due to beliefs in slavery.

The most active conductor in the underground railroad was?

Harriet Tubman

What did the Free Soilers believe?

They believed that the new territories should not have slavery due to the slaves taking jobs for white workers.

What did the Know-Nothing Party believe in?

Nativism and opposed immigration to the U.S.

What did the Dred Scott Decision NOT guarantee?

Slavery being banned in the new territories

Formal Withdrawal of a state is?

Secession

Compromise of 1850 did what?

Fugitive Slave Act

Banned slave trade in DC

New Texas borders

California admitted as a free state

Popular Sovereignty was established in the new territories

What was the Nebraska-Kansas Act?

Split up territory to the west into Kansas and Nebraska and repealed the Missouri Comp line. Led to people wanting to move there in order to take advantage of popular sovereignty.

What is Pop Sov?

Residents of a state voting on the matter of slavery

Who won the election of 1856?

James Buchanan

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Why did Lincoln and Douglas debate?

Wanted to debate over slavery in the new territories and how to get rid of it.

Douglas - Pop Sov Lincoln - outlawing it

What did 9 Northern States create due to the Fugitive Slave Act?

Personal Liberty Laws

Underground Railroad

Secret paths to help fugitive slaves

Who was the first president of the confederacy?

Jefferson Davis

What was the nickname for Kansas after all the bloodshed?

Bleeding Kansas

What did the seven seceeded states name themselves?

The confederacy and Confederate states of america

Who led the Pottawatomie Massacre?

John Brown

Who did Nativism oppose?

Immigrants/immigration

Where did John Brown lead his failed slave rebellion?

Harpers Ferry

What did the Dred Scott Decision do?

Established slaves as not having the same rights of citizens, repealed the Missouri Comp line and labeled it unconstitutional, declared it as violating the 5th amendment

What caused the states to secede the union?

Abraham Lincoln’s election into office