Chapter 8 Sect. 1&2 Flashcard Review B (full)

Front

This means to "break away" from an area.

Back

secession

Front

People who flocked to California in 1849 in search of gold were called ___.

Back

Forty-niners

Front

If the Wilmot Proviso would have been passed, what would it have prohibited and where?

Back

slavery in the territory gained from Mexico

Front

What was the original purpose of the Gadsden purchase? Options: to add land to Texas and extend slavery into the territory, to fix a mistake in the boundary between Mexico and the U.S., to allow for a transcontinental railroad route to extend across it

Back

to allow for a transcontinental railroad route to extend across it

Front

Who was the senator that proposed the use of popular sovereignty as the solution to slavery's expansion into the land gained from Mexico?

Back

Lewis Cass

Front

This group was made up of Northerners who did not support slavery and did not support Zachary Taylor as their party's presidential candidate in 1848.

Back

Conscience Whigs

Front

This means "taking states out of the Union."

Back

secede

Front

the first battle between those favoring slavery and those opposing it took place in which state?

Back

Kansas

Front

A person of color could be falsely taken into custody under the terms of which Act? National Colonization Act, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Fugitive Slave Act

Back

Fugitive Slave Act

Front

The caning of Charles Sumner resulted from him accusing others senators of ___.

Back

forcing Kansas into the ranks of slave states