A Divided Nation (1848 - 1860) Lecture B: North and South

Since the north had a larger population, they had more control in the _________.

• White House

• Congress

• House of Representatives

The Southern leaders wanted to add slave states to the west to ___________.

• extend the idea to other areas in the U.S.

• balance the power out.

• take away from the north

A political battle developed: would the new western territories be slave states or ____ states?

• free

• republican

• democratic

David Wilmot: The Wilmot Proviso... the Pennsylvania congressman who proposed that slavery be _______ in all western territorities

• allowed

• banned

John C. Calhoun: The Platform of the South: a southerner who led the opposition to the Wilmot Proviso. He wanted slavery in the _________ territories.

• eastern

• northern

• new western

John C. Calhoun said that Congress had no _________ to ban slavery.

• votes

• constitutional right

• money

Stephen A. Douglas: Popular Sovereignity. Douglas was from Illinois and said that the people of each new western territory should decide on the issue of slavery by _______ vote.

• majority

• minority

Election of 1848: The Democrats ran Lewis Cass from ________ (they favored popular sovereignty).

• Ohio

• Virginia

• Michigan

• Pennsylvania

The Whigs ran ________ of Louisiana, who actually owned slaves.

• Zachary Taylor

• Andrew Garfield

• Aaron Burr

Many Whigs were _______ to slavery, but Taylor narrowly defeated Cass.

• for

• opposed

• fans