A House Divided Part 2

Question 1

What is Self Government?

Answer 1

The idea that no one can make you do something, they can only convince you.

Question 2

What is Family Government?

Answer 2

The idea that parent’s are the rulers/leaders of their whole family.

Question 3

What is the Great Triumvirate?

Answer 3

A group of Unifiers made by John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay.

Question 4

Who is Henry Clay?

Answer 4

A self-made man from Kentucky who is one of the three founders of the Great Triumvirate.

Question 5

What was Henry Clay like?

Answer 5

He was a strong speaker but he did have a very gloomy personal life, getting drunk often and chasing other women.

Question 6

What important things did Henry Clay do?

Answer 6

Henry Clay helped to make the Missourri compromise and prevents the Civil War from happening sooner.

Question 7

Who is Daniel Webster?

Answer 7

A great Supreme Court speaker who was also one of the three who founded the Great Triumvirate.

Question 8

Who is John C. Calhoun?

Answer 8

The last founder of the Great Triumvirate, he also held many great positions such as Vice President.

Question 9

What is the Fugitive Slaves Act?

Answer 9

An act that allowed slaves who escaped to free states free people.

Question 10

What important people died between 1850 and 1851?

Answer 10

All of the founders of the Great Triumvirate, John C. Calhoun died in 1850 and Henry Clay and Daniel Webster dies in 1851.

Question 11

What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?

Answer 11

An Act that overturned the Missourri Compromise.

Question 12

What did the Kansas Nebraska Act do?

Answer 12

It allowed new states to decide wither to be free or not, instead of making states above the 49th Parallel automatically free.

Question 13

What happened in 1856?

Answer 13

Charles Sunmer directly attack Senator Butler for allowing slavery, and Butler’s nephew went and beat up Charles Sunmer at the Senate.

Question 14

What was famously written about Slavery and the South?

Answer 14

In a book it was stated that the Southern U.S. would fall apart because they lacked work ethic due to slaves doing their work for them.

Question 15

What is the Dread Scott Case?

Answer 15

A famous case about a slave who was taken to a free state by his master for a very long time, who later sued because the government was trying to take him back to his master’s farm (which breaks the Fugitive Slave Act). He also lost the case, which infuriated many.

Question 16

What did John Brown do in 1859?

Answer 16

He famously rose against slavery violently. Unfortunately, he was executed.

Question 17

How did Abraham Lincoln grow up?

Answer 17

He grew up from a kind of strange family, his parents weren’t married and his mom died at 9.

Question 18

What was Lincoln like?

Answer 18

He was very honest and struggled with finding his meaning in life.

Question 19

How did Lincoln see Slavery?

Answer 19

He was always against it, and was actually one of the significant figures who helped to remove it.

Question 20

What was Lincoln’s early life like?

Answer 20

He taught himself a lot and was a very hard worker.

Question 21

What did Lincoln say needed to happen?

Answer 21

He stated that the choice of whether the whole country would be free or slave needed to be made, otherwise the country would collapse.

Question 22

What is said about Lincoln’s removal of Slavery?

Answer 22

It is said by some that he was abolishing slavery not because he cared about them, but for his own moral views and restoring the work ethic of white people.

Question 23

How did Lincoln see Religion?

Answer 23

He was not religious, but he started to lean towards it later on in life.