Chapter 13 The Union in Peril (1848-1861)

The four main causes of the civil war were 1. (s) [blank_start]Slavery[blank_end], 2. (c) [blank_start]Constitutional Disputes[blank_end], 3. (e) [blank_start]Economic differences[blank_end], and 4. (p) [blank_start]Political blunders and extremism[blank_end].

The [blank_start]free soil movement[blank_end] was made up of [blank_start]Northern democrats[blank_end] and [blank_start]Whigs[blank_end]. They supported the [blank_start]Wilmot Provision[blank_end] and thought that slaves should be [blank_start]free[blank_end] in land from the Mexico [blank_start]Cession[blank_end]. Many simply wanted western opportunities to be for [blank_start]whites[blank_end] only.

While southerners were against the development of non-slave states, some accepted extending the Missouri Compromise.

[blank_start]Popular Sovereignty[blank_end] was proposed by [blank_start]Lewis Cass[blank_end] and stated the matter of whether a state had [blank_start]slaves[blank_end] or not would be decided by a [blank_start]vote[blank_end]. This was supported by [blank_start]northern and southern moderates[blank_end].

The election of [blank_start]1848[blank_end] had Democratic nominee [blank_start]Lewis Cass[blank_end] and Whig nominee [blank_start]Zachary Taylor[blank_end] and the Free Soil party nominee [blank_start]Martin Van Buren[blank_end].

In the election of 1848, democrats...

The Whig nominee Zachary Taylor was

The free soil party was made by "conscience [blank_start]whigs[blank_end]" ([blank_start]whigs against slavery[blank_end]) and [blank_start]antislavery democrats[blank_end].

Taylor won the election of 1848.

Henry Clay is from [blank_start]Kentucky[blank_end]. Daniel Webster is from [blank_start]Massachusetts[blank_end]. John C. Calhoun is from [blank_start]South Carolina[blank_end].

The compromise of 1850, created by [blank_start]Henry Clay[blank_end], stated 1. (c) [blank_start]California would be a free state[blank_end], 2. (d) [blank_start]divide the rest of the Mexican Cession[blank_end] into [blank_start]Utah[blank_end] and [blank_start]New Mexico[blank_end], 3. (a) [blank_start]assume Texas's public debt[blank_end], 4. (f) [blank_start]fugitive slave law[blank_end].

President Taylor split up the compromise of 1850 and signed it into law.

President [blank_start]Taylor[blank_end] was [blank_start]against[blank_end] the compromise of 1850. After President [blank_start]Taylor[blank_end] died, [blank_start]Stephen A. Douglas[blank_end] [blank_start]split[blank_end] the compromise and passed each part [blank_start]separately[blank_end]. President [blank_start]Millard Fillmore[blank_end] signed it into law.

Northerners often ignored the Fugitive Slave Law.

Which is true about the fugitive slave law?

Impending Crisis of the South attacked slavery from an economic point of view and stated that it weakened southern economies. This book was quickly banned in the south.