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Wilmont Proviso -- The Confederacy
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10th Grade
04/10/2011

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What does the Wilmont Proviso state?
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That any territory acquired as a result of the civil war shall be free of slaves.
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Why is the south upset about the Wilmont Proviso?
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Because those territories are below the Missouri Compromise line.
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What were Northern congressmen afraid of?
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Being overrun by the South.
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The _____ causes ________ to become a state quicker than anticipated.
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Gold Rush, California
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California applies to the union as a
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Free state
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The ____ did not enforce the _____
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North, Fugitive Slave Act
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The Fugitive Slave Act stated that
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Any slave found in the North is to be caught and sent back to the South.
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The Compromise of 1850 states that
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California is admitted as a free state, Utah and New Mexico will use popular sovereignty to decide slavery, Texas pays the federal government $10 million to end its border dispute with New Mexico, the sale of slaves in DC will be banned, even though slavery can still continue there, and a new, harsher, Fugitive Slave act is to be enacted.
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Why did Clay leave Washington, and who filled his position?
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He left because of discouragement from his compromise being failed, and Stephen A Douglass filled his position?
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How was the Compromise of 1850 carried out?
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By passing each section as a different resolution in Congress
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President _______ died in office, and was succeeded by _____________.
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Taylor, Millard Fillmore
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____________ wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Uncle Tom's Cabin delivered the message that
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Slavery was not just a political contest, but also a moral struggle.
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Because of Uncle Tom's Cabin,
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Abolitionists increased their protests against the Fugitive Slave Act, and the South viewed it as an attack against themselves.
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The ________ was a bill organized by ________ to split some of the western territory into two states (____________)
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Kansas-Nebraska Act, Douglass, Kansas and Nebraska.
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If the Kansas-Nebraska act were passed, it would
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Repeal the Missouri Compromise, and use popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act became a law in
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1854
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During the popular sovereignty, people decided to
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Jump the border into Kansas, to vote that Kansas were to become a slave state
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People who came into Kansas to vote on slavery during popular sovereignty were known as
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Border Ruffians
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Kansas became a _______, because of ________
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Slave state, people crossing the border.
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Abolitionists established a town called
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Lawrence
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Lawrence was _______ by slave owners, but _______.
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Sacked, nobody died
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______ was a crazy guy who though god told him _______________
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John Brown, fight slavery through violence.
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John Brown heard that ________ in the sack of Lawrence
Definition
5 people died
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John Brown killed 5 people down at the ____________, whom he thought were involved with the sack of Lawrence, which set off a chain of events leading to
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Pottatomie River, over 200 deaths
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Congressman _____ from ____ gave a speech about ______ in ______
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Sumner, Massachusetts, the evils of slavery, the south
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Sumner makes fun of an ____________, and his __________________.
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Old southern congressman / plantation owner, nephew beat Sumner's brains out with a cane
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The North views Sumner's attack as _____________, and the South _____.
Definition
The way the South does things, celebrates.
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The ____ Party is split over the issue of _____.
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Whig, slavery
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_________ became the Whig nominee for president in _____.
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General Winfield Scott, 1852.
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______ Whigs did not vote in the 1852 presidential election because of _____'s stance on _____.
Definition
Southern, Scott, slavery
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_____ candidate ________ won the Presidential election on 1852.
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Democratic, Franklin Pierce.
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Nativism:
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The favoring of native-born Americans over immigrants.
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The _______ were the alternative party dedicated to ______.
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American Party, nativism
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The ______ used secret handshake and passwords, and were also known as the ________________.
Definition
American Party, Know-Nothing Party.
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Members of the American Party were told to respond to any question with '_________'
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I know nothing
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Free-Soilers opposed:
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The expansion of slavery into new territories
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Many non-abolitionist northerners were _________ because they were not for ___________.
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Free-Soilers, setting current slaves free
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The _________ Party was formed from discontented __________, ________, and _______.
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Republican, northern Whigs, antislavery advocates, Free-Soilers
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The Republican Party was founded by:
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Horace Greeley
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The main goal of the Republican Party was to
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Keep slavery out of new territories
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Abraham Lincoln was a:
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Republican
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The Republican Party contained members from ________ to ________, and because of this, were very _____ and ______.
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Conservatives (Missouri Compromise), radicals (abolitionists), diverse, powerful
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In the 1860 president election, the Republican candidate was
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John Fremont
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In the 1860 president election, the Know-Nothing candidate was
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Fremont and Millard Fillmore.
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In the 1860 president election, the Democrat candidate was
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James Buchanan, who was from the North, but also popular in the South.
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Who won the 1860 presidential election?
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Buchanan
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What were 3 important implications of the 1860 presidential election?
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Democrats could win by using someone who was popular in both the North and South, the Know-Nothings were in decline, and the Republicans were a political force in the north
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The _________________ were a series of debates over a _______.
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Lincoln-Douglass Debates, senate seat
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Stephen Douglass believed that
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Lincoln was wrong for wanting to end slavery, Lincoln wanting to end slavery could bring civil war, and popular sovereignty should be used in determining if a state should be a slave or free state
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Abraham Lincoln believed that
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Slavery is evil and should be kept out of new territories, and that all African Americans were guaranteed 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness'
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Who won the disputed senate seat between Lincoln and Douglass?
Definition
Douglass, but only by a small margin
Term
Who was Dred Scott?
Definition
A slave from Missouri, who moved to Wisconsin with his master for four years, and when they moved back to Missouri, the master died.
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What made the Missouri Compromise mean nothing?
Definition
The supreme court ruling in Dred Scott vs. Sanford that stated that Congress did not have the right to outlaw slavery in any territory
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Who won the 1860 presidential election?
Definition
Lincoln, by a very small margin
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Which political party ignored the issue of slavery?
Definition
the Constitutional Union Party
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_______ is the first state to secede, on _______.
Definition
South Carolina, December 20, 1860
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States that followed South Carolina's secession were:
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Mississippi, Florida, Texas, and Georgia.
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The first president of the Confederate States of America was
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Jefferson Davis
Term
The Confederate States had a government based on
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Strong state government
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Problems with secession included:
Definition
That Washington DC is in the south, and there were southerners in Congress and the Cabinet.
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