16-1 And 16-2

Question 1

John Brown

Answer 1

anti-slavery extremist, brutally killed five people in “Bleeding Kansas” then attacked harpers ferry to arm African americans. His death was hanging.

Question 2

Compromise of 1850

Answer 2

Fugitive Slave Act was made and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.

Question 3

36’ 30’ North Latitude

Answer 3

it was the line between the North and the South, it separated slave states from non-slave states

Question 4

Kansas Nebraska Act

Answer 4

People would go to Kansa from Missouri just to vote. 1,500 people lived in Kansas but 6,000 people voted. The conflict was if it was going to be a free state or a slave state and lots of people died because some people were angry about the incident.

Question 5

Missouri Compromise

Answer 5

kept the balance between slave and free states, added Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

Question 6

Dred Scott case

Answer 6

Dred Scott was a slave who went to a free state briefly and went to court saying that meant he was a free man. He lost and was forced back into slavery.

Question 7

Civil War

Answer 7

conflict between citizens of the same country

Question 8

Know Nothing Party

Answer 8

American Party, very anti-immigrant

Question 9

American Party

Answer 9

They gained popularity by attacking immigrants. They nominated previous president Millard Fillmore

Question 10

Arsenal

Answer 10

a place to store weapons and military equipment

Question 11

Governments of Kansas (in Antebellum America)

Answer 11

Was a divide between people who supported slavery and people who didn’t. They made two rival groups that eventually led to bleeding kansas.

Question 12

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 12

A civil war in kansas between pro slavery border ruffians and anti slavery people who lived in Kansas. Pro slavery supporters attack Lawrence and antislavery forces retailed. John brown killed 5 pro slavery people and helped give it the name bleeding Kansas.

Question 13

The Republican Party

Answer 13

did not support salvery and wanted to stop the spread. Used to be named the free soilers but named Republican by anti slavery whigs and Democrats. Made in 1854. A strong republican is Abraham lincon

Question 14

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 14

David Wilmot of Pennsylvania made the Wilmot Proviso. This proposal would ban slavery in any lands the US might aquire from mexico.

Question 15

Stephen Douglas

Answer 15

was a democrat senator that ran against lincoln in the1858 Illinois senate race. Also helped created the Kansas-Nebraska act

Question 16

Border Ruffians

Answer 16

Armed pro-slavery supporter who crossed the border from Missouri to vote in Kansas. Helped cause bleeding Kansas.

Question 17

Harpers Ferry incident

Answer 17

An incident in which abolitionist John Brown led a group on a raid of the Harpers Ferry (Virginia arsenal. Brown hoped to arm enslaved african americans and start a revolt.

Question 18

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 18

slaves that ran away to a free state. It was the job of a person in a free state to send them back.

Question 19

Lincolns beliefs on Slavery

Answer 19

Lincoln believed that colonization or the idea that a majority of the African American population should leave the United States and settle in Africa or Central America

Question 20

Lincoln Douglas Debates

Answer 20

seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.