Popular Sovereignty And The Compromise Of The Free Soil Party
|What were the advantages and |Popular sovereignty meant that the sovereign people of a territory should determine the statues of |
|disadvantages of popular |slavery. It was popular with politicians because it was a comfortable compromise between the |
|sovereignty? |abolitionists and the slaver-holders. |
|Why was the Free-Soil party |The Free Soil Party emerged. It was formed by antislavery men of the North, who didn't trust Cass or |
|formed? Was it important? |Taylor. |
|Explain. | …show more content…
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|Did the California Gold Rush make|Yes, The rush of people in search of gold in California brought much violence and disease that the |
|people rich? Explain. |small government in California couldn't handle. |
|"The South was in a politically |In 1850, southerners were demanding a new and strict fugitive-slave law. (The old fugitive-slave law |
|weak position in the 1850's." |passed by Congress in 1793 was very weak.) The slave owners rested their argument on the Constitution,|
|Assess this statement. |which protected slavery. |
|Twilight of the Senatorial Giants| |
|What effect did Webster's speech |Daniel Webster proposed that all reasonable compromises should be made with the South and that a new |
|have? |fugitive-slave law be formed. Although, he was against slavery and he supported Wilmot Proviso, |
| |because he felt that cotton could not grow in the territories gained from the Mexican-American War. |
|How did William Seward contribute|William H. Seward- senator of New York; antislavery and argued that God's moral law was higher than the|
|to the tension between North and |Constitution.
|
|South in 1850? |President Zachary Taylor seemed bent on vetoing any compromise between the North and South that went |
| |through Congress. |
|What factors led to the |In 1850, President Taylor died suddenly and Vice President Millard Fillmore took the presidency. |
|acceptance of the Compromise of |President Fillmore signed a series of compromises. |
|1850? | |
|Explain the quote, "No single |Within the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted as a free state and the territories of New |
|irritant of the 1850's was more |Mexico and Utah were open to slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. Thus, the Senate was |
|consistently galling to both |unbalanced in favor of the North.
|
|sides...." | |
|What was important about the |The election of 1852 marked the end of the Whig party. It died on the issue of the Fugitive-Slave |
|election of 1852? |Law. The Whig party had upheld the ideal of the Union through their electoral strength in the South. |
|Explain the Ostend Manifesto, and|The Ostend Manifesto (1854) strongly suggested that the United States should take Cuba by force if |
|what consequences it had. |Spain refused to sell. |
|Is China or Japan more important |The trade from China is important to American trade today as they provide 50% of most things. |
|to American trade today? | |
|What was the reason for the |With the acquisition of California and Oregon, the transcontinental railroad was proposed. |
|Gadsden Purchase? |The question was where to have the railroad begin-the North or the South. |
| |Secretary of War Jefferson Davis had James Gadsden buy an area of Mexico from Santa Anna for which the |
| |railroad would pass. |
| |Gadsden negotiated a treaty in 1853 and the Gadsden Purchase area was ceded to the United States for |
| |$10 million. |
| |The railroad ran from California to Houston, Texas. |
|Why were northerners so opposed |Longed to break the North-South deadlock over westward expansion; proposed the Territory of Nebraska be|
|to popular sovereignty? |sliced into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska. Their status on slavery would be decided by popular |
| |sovereignty. Kansas would be presumed to be a slave state, while Nebraska would be a free state. |
|What were the effects of the |The Kansas-Nebraska act wrecked two compromises: the Compromise of 1820 which the act repealed; and the|
|Kansas-Nebraska Act? |Compromise of 1850, which northern opinion repealed indirectly. |
|disadvantages of popular |slavery. It was popular with politicians because it was a comfortable compromise between the |
|sovereignty? |abolitionists and the slaver-holders. |
|Why was the Free-Soil party |The Free Soil Party emerged. It was formed by antislavery men of the North, who didn't trust Cass or |
|formed? Was it important? |Taylor. |
|Explain. | …show more content…
|
|Did the California Gold Rush make|Yes, The rush of people in search of gold in California brought much violence and disease that the |
|people rich? Explain. |small government in California couldn't handle. |
|"The South was in a politically |In 1850, southerners were demanding a new and strict fugitive-slave law. (The old fugitive-slave law |
|weak position in the 1850's." |passed by Congress in 1793 was very weak.) The slave owners rested their argument on the Constitution,|
|Assess this statement. |which protected slavery. |
|Twilight of the Senatorial Giants| |
|What effect did Webster's speech |Daniel Webster proposed that all reasonable compromises should be made with the South and that a new |
|have? |fugitive-slave law be formed. Although, he was against slavery and he supported Wilmot Proviso, |
| |because he felt that cotton could not grow in the territories gained from the Mexican-American War. |
|How did William Seward contribute|William H. Seward- senator of New York; antislavery and argued that God's moral law was higher than the|
|to the tension between North and |Constitution.
|
|South in 1850? |President Zachary Taylor seemed bent on vetoing any compromise between the North and South that went |
| |through Congress. |
|What factors led to the |In 1850, President Taylor died suddenly and Vice President Millard Fillmore took the presidency. |
|acceptance of the Compromise of |President Fillmore signed a series of compromises. |
|1850? | |
|Explain the quote, "No single |Within the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted as a free state and the territories of New |
|irritant of the 1850's was more |Mexico and Utah were open to slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. Thus, the Senate was |
|consistently galling to both |unbalanced in favor of the North.
|
|sides...." | |
|What was important about the |The election of 1852 marked the end of the Whig party. It died on the issue of the Fugitive-Slave |
|election of 1852? |Law. The Whig party had upheld the ideal of the Union through their electoral strength in the South. |
|Explain the Ostend Manifesto, and|The Ostend Manifesto (1854) strongly suggested that the United States should take Cuba by force if |
|what consequences it had. |Spain refused to sell. |
|Is China or Japan more important |The trade from China is important to American trade today as they provide 50% of most things. |
|to American trade today? | |
|What was the reason for the |With the acquisition of California and Oregon, the transcontinental railroad was proposed. |
|Gadsden Purchase? |The question was where to have the railroad begin-the North or the South. |
| |Secretary of War Jefferson Davis had James Gadsden buy an area of Mexico from Santa Anna for which the |
| |railroad would pass. |
| |Gadsden negotiated a treaty in 1853 and the Gadsden Purchase area was ceded to the United States for |
| |$10 million. |
| |The railroad ran from California to Houston, Texas. |
|Why were northerners so opposed |Longed to break the North-South deadlock over westward expansion; proposed the Territory of Nebraska be|
|to popular sovereignty? |sliced into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska. Their status on slavery would be decided by popular |
| |sovereignty. Kansas would be presumed to be a slave state, while Nebraska would be a free state. |
|What were the effects of the |The Kansas-Nebraska act wrecked two compromises: the Compromise of 1820 which the act repealed; and the|
|Kansas-Nebraska Act? |Compromise of 1850, which northern opinion repealed indirectly. |