5 Written Questions

1. - opponents of slavery expansion
   - nominated Van Buren
   - showed how antislavery sentiment has spread beyond abolitionism
   - ideals:
   > bar slavery from western territories
   > free homesteads to settlers in new territories
2. as slavery becomes the main source of labor in South
3. - slave trade act: not abolish slavery for 20 years
   - fugitive slave act: states have to return fugitive slaves to owners
   - 3/5: of the slave population would be counted in determining each state's representation in the House of Representatives and its electoral votes for president
4. - John Tyler readdressed issue of annexation of Texas hoping for renomination
   - John C. Calhoun (secretary of state) wrote letter where he linked the idea of absorbing Texas to strengthening slavery
   - Polk is elected
   > supported annexation
   > buddies with Jackson
   > got mostly southern votes
   > platform: lower tariff, reestablish independent treasury, settle dispute over Oregon, get California
   - Henry Clay not elected
   > but got most votes from North
5. - coalition of northern whigs, free soilists, antislavery democrats, know-nothings
   - prevent expansion of slavery because they did not want to compete with unpaid labor
   > NOT abolitionists
   > free market labor superior to slavery
   - emphasized higher education, banking, railroads, expansion, industry, and cities
   - promised free homesteads to farmers
   - party of free working white men

5 Matching Questions

1. growing ideas of racism
2. importation of slaves
3. Dred Scott vs Sanford
4. election of 1860
5. Fugitive Slave Act 1850

1. a - Lincoln
   > won all of North (even 3 states) except NJ
   - Breckinridge
   > most of slave states
   - Bell
   > 3 upper south states
   - Douglass
   > Missouri
2. b prohibited in 1808
3. c - Americans separate whites from blacks
   - minstrel show
   - racial superiority
4. d - allowed federal agents to come into the states and take alleged fugitive slaves without trial or testimony
   - prohibited local authorities from interfering
   - southerners, usually defenders of states' rights supported this federal movement. shows they care more about protecting slavery than states rights
5. e - Scott accompanied master to Illinois (free state)
   - sued for freedom: claiming that residence on free soil had made him free
   - decision:
   > slaves aren't citizens and therefore can't sue
   > unconstitutional to prohibit slavery (repealing of Missouri Compromise showed that the governt had been wrong and they can't prohibit slavery)
   - reactions:
   > North was appalled by how corrupt the courts were

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. - Stephan F. Austin gets a land grant from Mexico
   - bring slaves
   - Mexican government makes slavery illegal--> Texian split over issues: stay with Mexico or not/ slavery
   - Peace Party vs War Party
   - Alamo: War party goes and they are massacred
   - Texas revolution:
   >Sam Houston (president of Texas)
   >independence in 1837
   >Republic of Texas applies for state hood in 1837, 1841, state in 1844 with Polk
   1. election 1856
   2. secession
   3. Republican Party
   4. Texas
2. - Zachary Taylor leads American soldiers into disputed area between Nueces and Rio Grande
   > made Mexico attack first
   - majority of Americans supported war b/c of manifest destiny
   - minority in North critiqued the war
   > feared purpose was to aquire land to expand slavery
   > Thoreau jailed for refusing to pay taxes to support war: Civil Disobedience
   1. Election of 1844
   2. Mexican War 1846-1848
   3. election 1856
   4. Free Soil Party 1848
3. - popular sovereignty leads to it
   Settlers divided
   > Free soil in Lawrence (antislavery)
   > Border Ruffians (from boarding slave state Missouri) cross border to illegally vote proslavery
   - Leads to open warfare
   > Proslavery vs antislavery
   >John Brown (abolitionist) led raids at Pottawatomie Creek
   - Attack pro-slavery men
   - elect all pro-slavery officials
   > but need a constitution so both sides race to write one
   > pro-slavery gets there first and Buchanan accepts it but Congress doesn't and they deny statehood
   - Popular sovereignty clearly failed
   1. Ostend Manifesto 1854
   2. election of 1860
   3. Bleeding Kansas 1856
   4. election 1856
4. - slaves in Virginia
   - plan to march on Richmond, kill some whites, and hold thre rest hostage until their demand for abolition os slavery was met
   - used language used in the American Revolution
   - led to tightening of slave codes
   1. New Orleans Slave Rebellion 1811
   2. Haitian Revolution 1791
   3. Gabriel's Rebellion 1800
   4. election 1856
5. - slaves upriver from New Orleans got work tools, knives, etc and marched toward NO killing as they went
   1. Fugitive Slave Act 1850
   2. New Orleans Slave Rebellion 1811
   3. Gabriel's Rebellion 1800
   4. Haitian Revolution 1791

5 True/False Questions

1. election 1856 → - Lincoln
   > won all of North (even 3 states) except NJ
   - Breckinridge
   > most of slave states
   - Bell
   > 3 upper south states
   - Douglass
   > Missouri

   True        False

2. secession → - Stephan F. Austin gets a land grant from Mexico
   - bring slaves
   - Mexican government makes slavery illegal--> Texian split over issues: stay with Mexico or not/ slavery
   - Peace Party vs War Party
   - Alamo: War party goes and they are massacred
   - Texas revolution:
   >Sam Houston (president of Texas)
   >independence in 1837
   >Republic of Texas applies for state hood in 1837, 1841, state in 1844 with Polk

   True        False

3. Haitian Revolution 1791 → slaves defeat British forces and led to the establishment of Haiti as an independent nation

   True        False

4. Debate over slavery in the Constitutional Convention → - slave trade act: not abolish slavery for 20 years
   - fugitive slave act: states have to return fugitive slaves to owners
   - 3/5: of the slave population would be counted in determining each state's representation in the House of Representatives and its electoral votes for president

   True        False

5. Know-Nothing 1854 → - Buchanan (democrat)
   > won entire south
   > and three states: Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania
   > won election
   - Fremont (republican)
   > carried 11/16 free states
   > very impressive for a new party, showed how many people were agaisnt slavery

   True        False