The Sectional Crisis
Missouri Compromise - correct answer ✔kept balance of power in the senate
by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, temporarily
resolves slavery issue (36'30' line dividing slave from free states)
Mexican Cession - correct answer ✔land acquired in the Mexican-American
war, debated whether the territory would be slave of free
Wilmot Proviso - correct answer ✔slavery as well as well as settlement by
free african american would be prohibited in the territory obtained in the
mexican cession
The Compromise of 1850 - correct answer ✔Mexico would enter union as a
free state other states would be open to slavery based on popular sovereignty
Fugitive Slave Act - correct answer ✔All fugitive slaves found in the North
had to be sent back to owners in the South. Had no right to defend
themselves against those who claimed them as property. Federal marshals
could require citizens to assist in capturing runaways.
Personal liberty laws - correct answer ✔were laws passed in several of the
northern US states that countered the Fugitive Slave Acts of mostly the
Compromise of 1850. These made jury trials for escaped slaves and also
gave them attorneys. Some forbid state authorities to assist in the capturing
and returning of slaves, as well as punishment for illegal seizures against
slaves.
Popular sovereignty - correct answer ✔the ability of states to decide things
by popular vote, mainly for deciding as to whether or not states will be slave or
free states.
, Free-Soil Party - correct answer ✔Ideology: Keeping the west free, No
extension into the territories.
Not opposed to slavery because of punishment, but afraid of eliminating
opportunity to whites. Slavery would close off opportunity to small white
farmers, because big slave owners would own all land westward
Kansas-Nebraska Act - correct answer ✔repealed the MIssouri Compromise,
split the Louisiana Purchase into two territories, and allowed its settlers to
accept or reject slavery by popular sovereignty. Enflamed the slavery issue
and led opponents to form the Republican party
Bleeding Kansas - correct answer ✔a series of violent political confrontations
in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery
"Border Ruffian" in Kansas between 1854 and 1861.
Nativism - correct answer ✔ideology preferring native-born residents to
immigrants, restricting the rights of immigrants, and opposing new immigration
Uncle Tom's Cabin - correct answer ✔written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It
became popular in the North, and created anger in the South. Describes
horrible life of a slave.
The Dred Scott decision - correct answer ✔slaves will never be citizens or a
part of society/slaves aren't free if taken into free territories because they are
property
Secession - correct answer ✔when a state leaves the Union
Missouri Compromise - correct answer ✔kept balance of power in the senate
by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, temporarily
resolves slavery issue (36'30' line dividing slave from free states)
Mexican Cession - correct answer ✔land acquired in the Mexican-American
war, debated whether the territory would be slave of free
Wilmot Proviso - correct answer ✔slavery as well as well as settlement by
free african american would be prohibited in the territory obtained in the
mexican cession
The Compromise of 1850 - correct answer ✔Mexico would enter union as a
free state other states would be open to slavery based on popular sovereignty
Fugitive Slave Act - correct answer ✔All fugitive slaves found in the North
had to be sent back to owners in the South. Had no right to defend
themselves against those who claimed them as property. Federal marshals
could require citizens to assist in capturing runaways.
Personal liberty laws - correct answer ✔were laws passed in several of the
northern US states that countered the Fugitive Slave Acts of mostly the
Compromise of 1850. These made jury trials for escaped slaves and also
gave them attorneys. Some forbid state authorities to assist in the capturing
and returning of slaves, as well as punishment for illegal seizures against
slaves.
Popular sovereignty - correct answer ✔the ability of states to decide things
by popular vote, mainly for deciding as to whether or not states will be slave or
free states.
, Free-Soil Party - correct answer ✔Ideology: Keeping the west free, No
extension into the territories.
Not opposed to slavery because of punishment, but afraid of eliminating
opportunity to whites. Slavery would close off opportunity to small white
farmers, because big slave owners would own all land westward
Kansas-Nebraska Act - correct answer ✔repealed the MIssouri Compromise,
split the Louisiana Purchase into two territories, and allowed its settlers to
accept or reject slavery by popular sovereignty. Enflamed the slavery issue
and led opponents to form the Republican party
Bleeding Kansas - correct answer ✔a series of violent political confrontations
in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery
"Border Ruffian" in Kansas between 1854 and 1861.
Nativism - correct answer ✔ideology preferring native-born residents to
immigrants, restricting the rights of immigrants, and opposing new immigration
Uncle Tom's Cabin - correct answer ✔written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It
became popular in the North, and created anger in the South. Describes
horrible life of a slave.
The Dred Scott decision - correct answer ✔slaves will never be citizens or a
part of society/slaves aren't free if taken into free territories because they are
property
Secession - correct answer ✔when a state leaves the Union
