Ch10 Crossword

Question 0

The Supreme Court ruled congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in what

Answer 0

Territory

Question 1

“So you’re the little lady who started this war” the prez said to this author

Answer 1

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 2

The civil war began with the attack where?

Answer 2

Fort Sumter

Question 3

The Kansas-Nebraska act repealed the what line?

Answer 3

The 36-30 line

Question 4

Leading democrat who does in 1850

Answer 4

Calhoun

Question 5

Lincoln won by what percent of the popular vote

Answer 5

40%

Question 6

Purchase made in 1853 to provide a southern route for the transcontinental railroad

Answer 6

Gadeson

Question 7

Prez of the confederate states of America

Answer 7

Jefferson Davis

Question 8

Admission of California as a free state would tip the balance of power in what?

Answer 8

The US senate

Question 9

In 1858 Lincoln said “a house _____ against itself cannot stand”

Answer 9

Divided

Question 10

Southern democrats refused to back Douglas after his “Freeport _______”

Answer 10

Heresy

Question 11

A _______ railroad was needed to tie California to US economy

Answer 11

Transcontinental

Question 12

Word meaning “no higher authority”, popular _______

Answer 12

Sovereignty

Question 13

He lost the 1858 election for US senate

Answer 13

Lincoln

Question 14

Senator from Illinois

Answer 14

Douglas

Question 15

Abolitionist senator from Massachusetts who was Caned

Answer 15

Sumner

Question 16

Uncle Tom’s cabin was written in opposition to …..

Answer 16

The federal fugitive slave act of 1850

Question 17

Political party against the expansion of slavery in 1860

Answer 17

Republicans

Question 18

Those who rushed to California

Answer 18

Forty niners

Question 19

Men who illegally crossed the border to vote in Kansas elections

Answer 19

Border ruffians

Question 20

Town in Kansas where free stators set up government

Answer 20

Lawrence

Question 21

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote what book

Answer 21

Uncle Tom’s cabin

Question 22

Where John Brown tried to lead a slave revolt in 1859

Answer 22

Harpers Ferry

Question 23

Sumner was caned following what speech

Answer 23

“Crimes against Kansas”

Question 24

The turning over of land by Mexico in 1848

Answer 24

Mexican cession

Question 25

According to the Supreme Court African-Americans were not

Answer 25

Citizens

Question 26

Northern States passed these laws following 1850

Answer 26

Personal liberty laws

Question 27

In 1855 elections in Kansas proslavery men from what state voted illegally

Answer 27

Missouri

Question 28

Hero of Mexican-American war and president when he dies in 1850

Answer 28

Zacn Taylor

Question 29

Discovered in California in 1848

Answer 29

Gold

Question 30

The war began in his front yard and ended in his front parlor

Answer 30

Wilmer McLean

Question 31

By 1858 slavery appeared to be a

Answer 31

Expanding institution

Question 32

In 1787 slavery was considered a

Answer 32

Dying institution

Question 33

How many Americans fought in the Civil War

Answer 33

3 million

Question 34

South Carolina was the first state to

Answer 34

Secede from the union in 1860

Question 35

Also known as the great compromiser

Answer 35

Henry Clay