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Nadim activivty

Section 1

Question: What document did northerners want to pass concerning the practice of slavery in the Mexican cession?
Answer: The Wilmot Proviso

Question: What did the Wilmot proviso state?
Answer: that slavery would not occur in any part of the Mexican cession

Question: Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?
Answer: Henry Clay

Question: What did the Free-Soil Party support?


Answer: The wilmot Proviso

Question: Why did southerners ask to secede?
Answer: They feared the disbalance in the US would lead to a destructive civil war

Section 2

Question: Who was the democrat candidate for the eñection of 1852?
Answer: Franklin Pierce

Question: How did the Kansas-Nebraska act divide the rest of the louisisana purchase?
Answer: It split it into kansas and nebraska

Question: How would the question of slavery be answered in the two new states?
Answer: They would be up to popular sovereignity

Question: Why did northerners dislike the kansas-nebraska act?
Answer: It proposed creating a slave state above the missouri compromise.

Question: What occurred in the Pottawatomie Massacre?
Answer: John Brown and his men killed 5 pro-slavery men

Section 3

Question: What parties united to create the Republican party?
Answer: Whigs, some Democrats, abolitionists and Free-Soilers

Question: Who did the Democrats nominate for the election of 1856?
Answer: James Bucharan

Question: Who did the Republicans nominate?
Answer: John C Fremont

Question: Who won the election of 1856?
Answer: James Bucharan of the Republican Party

Question: Who was Dred Scott?
Answer: A slave who's owner died, and then sued for his liberty, leading to a court decision that being in a free state does not make you free.

Section 4

Question: Why didn't more slaves join Brown's raid?
Answer: they feared punishment if they did

Question: Where did Brown's men retreat to?
Answer: a nearby lighthouse

Question: Who ordered the removal of Brown from the lighthouse?
Answer: Robert E Lee

Question: What did the CUP defend?
Answer: The constitution as the only set of principles

Question: Which were the original states in the confederation?
Answer: Missisipi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas

Vocabulary

Question: What is popular sovereignity?


Answer: The concept that political power belongs to the people

Question: What was the compromise of 1850?
Answer: A compromise that would make California a free state, and divide the rest of the Mexican cession in two: new mexico and Utah, where slavery would be up to popular sovereignty

Question: What was uncle tom's cabin?
Answer: Anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question: What was the republican party?
Answer: a political party united against the spread of slavery to the west



Question: What was John Brown's raid?
Answer: A raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia initiated by John Brown, an anti-slavery activist