Road to the Civil War/Compromises Study Guide

Why did Missouri becoming a state cause such an upset?

imbalance of power in Congress

Who proposed the Missouri Compromise?

Henry clay

Explain the conditions of the Missouri Compromise

Mo- Slave State

Me- slave State

North of 36 30’ is free

South of 36 30’ is slave

What is Sectionalism

Loyalty to a specific party

What is popular sovereignty

People get to vote

Why was the Free Soil party formed

To keep slavery out of western territories

Why did California’s request for statehood raise the slavery issue again

Same as number one, imbalance of power in Congress

What were the four parts of the compromise of 1850

California is a free state

organized New Mexico and Utah territory under popular sovereignty

New Fugitive Slave act

abolishing slave trade in Washington DC but allowed people with slaves to keep them

explain the figurative slave law of 1850 why were northerners enraged by this law

all citizens were required to return runaway slaves; forced into the system (slavery)

what was the Kansas-Nebraska Act and how did it undo the Missouri Compromise

it allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to vote on slavery; it allowed slavery to spread into territories where it previously was banned

who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Douglass

what was the reactions to both Northerners and Southerners to the Kansas-Nebraska Act

they were enraged

what were Border Ruffians

a name for a pro-slavery group that battled in Kansas

why was Kansas called Bleeding Kansas

fight broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people

what party was formed in 1854 and what was their main goal

republican; to appose the expansion of slavery into the territories

Where did the first Lincoln/Douglas debate take place? How many debates did they have?

In IL, 7 debates

Who won the Senate election in 1858? Douglas or Lincoln?

Douglas

Why did John Brown raid an arsenal at Harper’s Ferrry?

He was trying to plan a slave revolt.

Who were the four candidates of the 1860 Presidential election and their political party? Who won the election?

Lincoln - Republican

Douglas - Democratic

Bell - Constitutional Union

Breckenridge - Southern Democratic

Lincoln won

What did Lincoln’s win mean to many Southerners? What was their only choice?

They no longer had a voice in government; secede

What was the first state to secede from the Union? What states followed after the Presidential convention?

South Carolina; Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas

What was the new name of the nation formed by the seven states that seceded from the union?

Confederate States of America

Who was the president of the confederacy?

Jefferson Davis

What was one of the first difficult decisions that Lincoln had to make as a President?

Allow Fort Sumter to be claimed or start a war

Why was Fort Sumter important to the Confederacy? The raid marked the beginning of what war?

It guarded Charleston Harbor ; It started the Civil War