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Splash Screen. The Impact of the War With Mexico. The Mexican War opened vast new lands to __________ settlers. . This increase in land once again led to increased debate over whether slavery should be allowed to _______ westward. 

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  2. The Impact of the War With Mexico • The Mexican War opened vast new lands to __________ settlers.  • This increase in land once again led to increased debate over whether slavery should be allowed to _______westward.  • As part of this debate, __________also wanted new laws to help them capture escaped African Americans.  • At first, President __________did not think slavery would be an issue in the newly acquired territory. (pages 320–322) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 1-5

  3. The Impact of the War With Mexico (cont.) • He thought the dry climate there would not support the kind of farming that made slavery __________.  • In August 1846, Representative David Wilmot, a northern Democrat, proposed the __________ __________.  • This said that in any __________the United States gained from Mexico, slavery would not exist.  • __________were outraged by the Wilmot Proviso. (pages 320–322) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 1-6

  4. The Impact of the War With Mexico (cont.) • It passed in the House of Representatives, but the __________refused to vote on it.  • Senator ____________________of Michigan proposed a solution to the issue of slavery in the territories.  • He suggested the idea of __________ __________. • This meant that the citizens of each new territory would __________whether or not slavery was permitted. (pages 320–322) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 1-7

  5. The Impact of the War With Mexico (cont.) • Popular sovereignty appealed to many members of __________.  • It removed the __________issue from national politics.  • It also seemed __________.  • __________, however, argued that it still denied African Americans their right not to be enslaved.  • __________liked popular sovereignty because they believed that mostly Northern settlers would move to the new territory, so the states would be free. (pages 320–322) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 1-8

  6. The Impact of the War With Mexico (cont.) • The Whig Party chose __________as its presidential candidate.  • The Whig Party in the North was split.  • Northern Whigs who opposed slavery were known as __________ __________. • This group also opposed Taylor because they thought he wanted to expand __________westward. (pages 320–322) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 1-9

  7. The Impact of the War With Mexico (cont.) • Northern Whigs who were linked to Northern cloth manufacturers and depended on Southern cotton for their factories were known as __________ • This group, along with the Southern Whigs, nominated __________.  • __________Whigs quit the Whig party because they did not want Taylor nominated.  • They joined with antislavery Democrats from New York and the abolitionist Liberty Party to form the __________ Party. (pages 320–322) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 1-10

  8. The Impact of the War With Mexico (cont.) • This party __________the spread of slavery into the western territories.  • There were __________candidates in the election of 1848.  • Democrat ____________________supported popular sovereignty.  • Free-Soil candidate, __________ __________ __________, backed the Wilmot Proviso and took a strong stand __________slavery in the territories. (pages 320–322) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 1-11

  9. The Impact of the War With Mexico (cont.) • Whig candidate ____________________avoided the issue of slavery.  • __________won the election. (pages 320–322) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 1-12

  10. The Search for Compromise • The discovery of gold in California brought thousands of new settlers to the territory.  • By the end of 1849, nearly 80,000 “__________ __________” had arrived in the territory in search of gold.  • California needed a __________government to maintain order.  • Californians applied for __________as a free state.  • This forced the nation to debate the issue of __________once again. (pages 322–324) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 1-14

  11. The Search for Compromise(cont.) • If California became a free state, the slaveholding states would become a __________in the Senate.  • Southerners feared that losing power in national politics would lead to limits on __________.  • Some Southern politicians talked about __________–taking their states out of the Union. (pages 322–324) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 1-15

  12. The Search for Compromise(cont.) • Senator ____________________of Kentucky tried to find a compromise to the issue of slavery in the territories so that California could join the Union.  • He came up with __________plans to solve the crisis and save the Union.  • The ____________________included concessions by both the North and the South.  • California was admitted to the Union as a __________state. (pages 322–324) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 1-16

  13. The Search for Compromise(cont.) • The rest of the Mexican Cession would have no __________on slavery.  • The Texas/New Mexico border question was solved in favor of New Mexico, but the federal government took on __________debts.  • The slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia, but not slavery.  • __________could not interfere with the domestic slave trade.  • The federal government passed a new __________slave law. (pages 322–324) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 1-17

  14. The Search for Compromise(cont.) • The Compromise of 1850 caused a great debate.  • Two of the main debaters included Senator __________, who defended the South’s rights, and Senator Daniel __________of Massachusetts, who responded to Calhoun with a plea for compromise to save the Union.  • Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois divided the large __________into several smaller bills. (pages 322–324) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 1-18

  15. The Search for Compromise(cont.) • This gave members of Congress from different sections the ability to vote for the parts they liked or vote against the parts they disliked.  • The Compromise of 1850 was __________, but it did not contain a permanent __________to the slavery issue. (pages 322–324) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 1-19

  16. Checking for Understanding Define Match the terms on the right with their definitions on the left. __ 1. government subject to the will of the people; before the Civil War, the idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there __ 2. withdrawal from the Union A. popular sovereignty B. secession Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the answers. Section 1-21

  17. Uncle Tom’s Cabin • __________ __________ ___, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, ran as a serial in an antislavery newspaper and then came out in book form in 1852.  • Stowe’s writings about an enslaved African American and his __________changed Northern outlooks on African Americans and slavery.  • Southerners tried to have the __________banned.  • They accused Stowe of writing __________in her portrayal of slavery. (pages 326–327) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 2-5

  18. Uncle Tom’s Cabin(cont.) • The book sold __________of copies and had a great effect on public opinion.  • Many historians say it was one of the causes of the ____________________. (pages 326–327) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 2-6

  19. The Fugitive Slave Act • The ______________________________hurt the Southern cause because it created hostility toward slavery among Northerners who had previously been indifferent toward it.  • Under this act, an African American ________of being a runaway was arrested and brought to a federal commissioner.  • A sworn statement saying the captive was an escaped slave, or testimony by a white witness, was all a court needed to send the person __________. (pages 327–328) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 2-8

  20. The Fugitive Slave Act(cont.) • African Americans accused of being fugitives had no rights to a trial and were not allowed to __________in court.  • A person who refused to help capture a fugitive slave could be _________.  • Newspaper accounts of the seizure of African Americans and of the law’s injustices made Northerners increasingly __________. (pages 327–328) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 2-9

  21. The Fugitive Slave Act(cont.) • Frederick Douglass spoke out against the ______________________________.  • He emphasized the law’s requirement that __________citizens help capture runaways.  • Antislavery activists encouraged civil __________in disobeying the Fugitive Slave Law on moral grounds.  • Resistance to the act by Northerners became frequent, public, and sometimes __________. (pages 327–328) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 2-10

  22. The Fugitive Slave Act(cont.) • Whites and free African Americans helped runaway slaves through the ____________________. • Members called “__________” secretly transported runaways to freedom in the Northern states or Canada.  • They gave the __________food and shelter along the way. (pages 327–328) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 2-11

  23. The Fugitive Slave Act(cont.) • A famous conductor was ____________________. • She was a __________slave who continually risked going into the slave states to help free enslaved persons. (pages 327–328) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 2-12

  24. The Transcontinental Railroad • Sectional disagreements moved with settlers into the new territories. Settlers remained Northerners or Southerners.  • The opening of Oregon and the admission of California to the Union convinced many Americans that a ____________________was needed to connect the West Coast to the rest of the country.  • A transcontinental railroad would make travel to the ____________________quicker and it would increase the growth of territories on its route. (pages 328–329) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 2-14

  25. The Transcontinental Railroad (cont.) • Southerners wanted a southern route for the __________, but the route would have to go through northern Mexico.  • James __________was sent by the U.S. government to buy the land from Mexico.  • In 1853 Mexico agreed to accept $10 million for the territory known as the ____________________. • This strip of land is today the southern part of __________and New Mexico. (pages 328–329) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 2-15

  26. The Transcontinental Railroad (cont.) • Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois wanted a northern route that began in Chicago for the __________railroad.  • To create a northern route, Congress would need to organize the territory west of __________and __________.  • In 1853 Douglas prepared a bill to organize the territory to be called __________. (pages 328–329) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 2-16

  27. The Transcontinental Railroad (cont.) • __________Senators refused to pass the bill to organize Nebraska unless the Missouri Compromise was repealed and slavery allowed in the new territory. (pages 328–329) Section 2-17

  28. The Kansas-Nebraska Act • ____________________wanted to open the northern Great Plains to settlement.  • To gain Southern support for his bill, he said that any states organized in the new Nebraska territory would exercise ____________________to decide the issue of slavery.  • Southern leaders wanted the Missouri Compromise __________, however. (pages 329–331) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 2-19

  29. The Kansas-Nebraska Act (cont.) • In Douglas’s next version of the bill, he proposed to __________the Missouri Compromise and allow slavery in the region.  • This __________ _________ Act divided the region into two territories–Kansas on the south and Nebraska on the north.  • Northerners were outraged by the bill that broke the Missouri Compromise promise to __________the spread of slavery.  • The act was passed by __________anyway in May 1854. (pages 329–331) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 2-20

  30. The Kansas-Nebraska Act (cont.) • In 1855 thousands of armed Missourians came to __________and voted illegally to help elect a pro-slavery legislature.  • Angry antislavery settlers held their own convention in ______, Kansas, and wrote their own constitution, excluding slavery.  • In 1856 __________became the scene of a territorial civil war between pro-slavery and antislavery settlers.  • It became known as “____________________” because of all the violence. (pages 329–331) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 2-21

  31. The Kansas-Nebraska Act (cont.) • In May 1856, abolitionist Senator _________of Massachusetts delivered a speech accusing pro-slavery senators of forcing Kansas to become a slave state.  • He singled out Senator ____________________of South Carolina.  • In retaliation, Senator _________cousin, Representative Preston __________, accused Sumner of libeling Butler.  • Then Brooks caned Sumner, leaving him severely __________. (pages 329–331) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 2-22

  32. The Kansas-Nebraska Act (cont.) • Some Southerners made __________a hero.  • __________became more determined to resist slavery. (pages 329–331) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 2-23

  33. Checking for Understanding Define Match the terms on the right with their definitions on the left. __ 1. a railway system extending across the continent __ 2. a system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North A. Underground Railroad B. transcontinental railroad Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the answers. Section 2-26

  34. Birth of the Republican Party • The __________ __________ Act destroyed the Whig Party.  • Every Northern __________in Congress had voted against the act.  • Most __________Whigs had voted for the act.  • Former Whigs, Free-Soil Party members, and some antislavery Democrats formed new ____________________with many names. (pages 332–334) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 3-5

  35. Birth of the Republican Party(cont.) • The most popular name was the __________Party. • This party was officially organized at a convention in Michigan in __________.  • Members did agree that slavery should be kept out of the territories.  • At the same time, anger against the Northern Democrats helped the American Party, better known as the ____________________, to make great gains. (pages 332–334) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 3-6

  36. Birth of the Republican Party(cont.) • This party was __________ and __________, and it opposed __________into the United States.  • This party __________over the Kansas-Nebraska Act.  • The Northern Know-Nothings joined the __________ Party. (pages 332–334) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 3-7

  37. The Election of 1856 • The Republican candidate in the 1856 election was ____________________. • He had helped __________become a free state and was in favor of __________becoming a free state.  • The Democratic candidate was ____________________. • He had not taken a __________on the Kansas-Nebraska Act.  • His record in Congress showed he would make __________to the South to save the Union. (page 334) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 3-9

  38. The Election of 1856(cont.) • The northern delegates to the American Party convention __________out when the party refused to call for the repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.  • ____________________was the American Party candidate.  • The Democrats campaigned on the idea that only __________could save the Union and that the election of ________ would cause the South to secede.  • __________won the election of 1856. (page 334) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 3-10

  39. Sectional Divisions Grow • ____________________was an enslaved man whose Missouri slaveholder had taken him to live in free territory before returning to Missouri.  • Abolitionists helped Scott __________to end his slavery.  • Scott argued that the time he spent in free territory meant he was _________.  • The case Dred Scott v. Sandford went to the ____________________. (pages 334–336) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 3-12

  40. Sectional Divisions Grow(cont.) • The Supreme Court ruled _________Dred Scott because, in the opinion of the court, the founders of the nation had not intended African Americans to be citizens.  • The court went on to say that the Missouri Compromise’s ban on slavery was __________.  • __________liked the decision. __________said the decision was not binding.  • The Dred Scott ruling intensified __________differences. (pages 334–336) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 3-13

  41. Sectional Divisions Grow(cont.) • In order to apply for statehood, Kansas needed a constitution. • The pro-slavery legislature of ________held an election for delegates to a constitutional convention.  • Antislavery Kansans __________the election, saying it was rigged.  • The convention wrote the ____________________in which slavery was legalized. (pages 334–336) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 3-14

  42. Sectional Divisions Grow(cont.) • Each side held its own __________,or popular vote, on the constitution.  • Antislavery forces voted __________it; pro-slavery forces voted __________it.  • President Buchanan asked Congress to admit __________as a slave state.  • The Senate accepted the __________constitution, but the House of Representatives did not. (pages 334–336) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 3-15

  43. Sectional Divisions Grow(cont.) • In 1858 the settlers in Kansas held another __________and voted to reject the Lecompton constitution.  • __________did not become a state until 1861. (pages 334–336) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 3-16

  44. Lincoln and Douglas • In 1858 Abraham Lincoln was chosen by the Illinois __________to run for the Senate against the Democratic incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas.  • Lincoln and Douglas held a series of __________.  • Lincoln opposed the spread of ________to the western territories.  • Douglas favored ________sovereignty.  • In a debate in Freeport, Illinois, Douglas formulated the ___________________. (pages 336–337) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 3-19

  45. Lincoln and Douglas(cont.) • In this statement, Douglas accepted the ____________________ruling.  • He also said that people could still keep __________out of a territory by refusing to pass laws needed to regulate and enforce it.  • The ____________________pleased Illinois voters but angered Southern voters.  • Douglas was elected __________. (pages 336–337) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 3-20

  46. Lincoln and Douglas(cont.) • __________used the debates to clarify the principles of the Republican Party.  • Lincoln also established a __________reputation as a clear, insightful thinker and an eloquent debater. (pages 336–337) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 3-21

  47. John Brown’s Raid • __________ _____, a fervent abolitionist, planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (today West Virginia).  • He would then free and arm the enslaved people in the area and begin an __________, or rebellion, against slaveholders.  • Brown and his followers seized the arsenal on October 16, 1859, but within __________were captured by the U.S. Marines. (pages 337–338) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 3-23

  48. John Brown’s Raid(cont.) • Brown was __________, __________, and sentenced to __________.  • Many Northerners viewed Brown as a __________for the slaves’ cause.  • Southerners viewed Brown’s raid as proof that Northerners were plotting the __________of slaveholders. (pages 337–338) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 3-24

  49. Checking for Understanding Define Match the terms on the right with their definitions on the left. __ 1. the practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the legislature __ 2. an act of rebellion against the established government A. referendum B. insurrection Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the answers. Section 3-26

  50. The Election of 1860 • John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry was a _______________for the South.  • Southerners feared an African American __________and were angered that Northerners would arm them and encourage them to rebel.  • Republicans renounced John Brown’s raid, but many Southerners blamed the __________since they opposed slavery. (pages 340–342) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Section 4-5

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