+
Related Flashcards
Related Topics
Cards In This Set
| Front | Back |
|
Did Kentucky permit or not permit slavery?
|
It permitted slavery.
|
|
In what year was Lincoln elected?
|
1860.
|
|
What 2 states applied to Congress for statehood as slave states in 1819?
|
Missouri and Alabama.
|
|
What did James Tallmadge suggest to do about Missouri (to apply it as a free state or slave state)?
|
He proposed an amendment to the statehood bill, saying that Missouri could join the Union, but it should be a free state.
|
|
What did Congress do about Missouri?
|
They made a compromise. Missouri would be a slave state, and Maine a slave state. They also drew an "imaginary line" across Louisiana territory. The north of this line would ban slavery, and the south of the line would permit slavery.
|
|
What is an abolonist?
|
Someone who strongly opposes slavery.
|
|
When did the "gag rule" take place and what was it about?
|
It happened in 1836, and the "gag rule" was when Congress tabled all anti-slavery petitions that abolonists made.
|
|
What did the Wilmot Proviso state?
|
It stated that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist." (that means that slavery should not exist at all)
|
|
Who made the Compromise of 1850?
|
Henry Clay.
|
|
What was the Compromise 1850 about?
|
California should admit to the Union as a free state, New Mexico and Utah can permit slavery, and Washington D.C. would end slave trading.
|
|
What were the reactions of the North and South?
|
They were both not satisfied.
|
