Ch 15

Question 1

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 1

a proposal to outlaw slavery in the territory added to the United States by the Mexican Cession’ passed in the House of Representatives, but was defeated in the Senate

Question 2

Free-Soil Party

Answer 2

a political party formed in 1848 by antislavery northerners who lef tthe Whiga and Democratic parties because neither addressed the slavery issue

Question 3

secede

Answer 3

to formally withdraw from the Union

Question 4

Compromise of 1850

Answer 4

Henry Clay’s proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slaery would be decided by popular sovereignty

Question 5

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 5

a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders

Question 6

Anthony Burns

Answer 6

American enslaved African, he ran away and was arrested in Boston. His arrest became the center of violent protests by northern opponents of the Fugitive Slave Act

Question 7

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 7

American author and daughter of Lyman Beecher, she was an abolitionist and author fo the famous anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 8

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 8

an antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed northerners the violent reality of slavery and drew many people to the abolitionists’ cause

Question 9

Frankliln Pierce

Answer 9

Democratic candidate for president in 1852 and the fourteenth president of the United States, he made the Gadsden Purchase, which opened the Northwest for settlement, and passed the unpoopular Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 10

Stephen Douglas

Answer 10

American politician and pro-slavery nominee for president, he debated Abraham Lincoln about slavery during the Illinois senatorial race. He proposed the unpopular Kansas-Nebraska Act, and he established the Freeport Doctrine, upholding the idea of popular soereignty.

Question 11

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 11

a law that allowed voters in Kansas and NEbraska to choose whether to allow slavery

Question 12

John Brown

Answer 12

American abolitionist who helped fuel the violence in Bleeding Kansas and was executed for his role in organizing a slave revolt at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia

Question 13

Charles Sumner

Answer 13

A senator from Masssachusetts, he was attacked by Preston Brooks with a cane over the issue of slavery

Question 14

Pottawatomie Massacre

Answer 14

an incident in which abolitionist John Brown and seven other men murdered pro-slavery Kansans

Question 15

Preston Brooks

Answer 15

American congressman, he assaulted and beat Senator Charles Sumner for his antislavery speeches and for insulting a pro-slavery relative. He was nicknamed Bully Brooks by northerners.

Question 16

James Buchanan

Answer 16

American politician and fifteenth president of the United States, he was chosen as the Democratic nominee for president in 1854 for being politically experienced and not offensive to slave states

Question 17

Republican Party

Answer 17

a political party formed in the 1850s to stop the spread of slavery in the West

Question 18

Dred Scott

Answer 18

Enslaed African who filed suit for his freedom stating that his time living in a free state made him a free man; the Supreme Court ruling known as the Dred Scott decision upheld slavery and found the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

Question 19

John C. Fremont

Answer 19

American explorer, army officer, and politician, he was chosen as the first Republican candidate for president. He was against the spread of slavery and he was rejected by all but the free states as a single issue candidate in the election of 1856

Question 20

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 20

Sixteenth president of the United States, he promoted equa rights for African Americans in the famed Lincoln-Douglas debates. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation and set in motion the Civil War, but he as determined to preserve the Union. He was assassinated in 1865

Question 21

Roger Taney

Answer 21

US Supreme Court Chief Justice, he wrote the majority opinion in the Dred Scott decision, stating that African Americans were not citizens and that the Missouri Compromise was unconsitutional

Question 22

Lincoln-Douglas debates

Answer 22

a series of debates between Republican Abraham Lincoln and Democrat Stephen Douglas during the 1858 U.S. Senate campaign in Illinois

Question 23

Freeport Doctrine

Answer 23

a statement made by Stephen Douglas during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that pointed out how people could use popular soverignty to determine if their state or territory should permit slavery

Question 24

John Brown’s raid

Answer 24

an incident in which abolitionist John Brown and 21 other men captured a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion

Question 25

Constitutional Union Party

Answer 25

a political party formed in the 1860 by a group of northerners and southerners who supported the Union, its laws, and the Constitution

Question 26

John Bell

Answer 26

Senator from Tennessee, he supported the Union over slavery and helped found the Constitutional Union Party

Question 27

John C Breckinridge

Answer 27

Vice president under James Buchanan, he was also a senator from Kentucky. He later served as a general in the Confederate army

Question 28

John J Crittenden

Answer 28

Kentucky senator, he attempted to save the Union by reconciling differences between northern and southern states in the Senate proposal known as Crittendon's Compromise

Question 29

Confederate States of America

Answer 29

The nation formed by the southern states when they seceded from the Union; also known as the Confederacy

Question 30

Jefferson Davis

Answer 30

First and only president of the Confederate States of America after the election of President Abraham Lincoln in 1860 led to the secession of many southern states