Chapter 10

Question 1

The south relied on a ________economy of cotton and tobacco which form the plantation society based on slavery

Answer 1

Staple crop

Question 2

The ________ declared that Missouri would enter as a slave state and Maine would enter as a free state to keep the number of slave states and free states equal. It also establish that there will be no slavery north of the 36 30 line in Louisiana territory

Answer 2

Missouri compromise

Question 3

In 1849 gold was discovered in California and the _______occurred when many 49ers went there to strike it rich

Answer 3

Gold rush

Question 4

————- A senator from South Carolina was a staunch defender of slavery and did what he could to protect and extend slavery in the United States

Answer 4

Jonn C. Calhoun

Question 5

————- was annexed by the United States in 1845, after Sam Hudson led the army to fight for and get it independence from Mexico

Answer 5

Texas

Question 6

_________ debated Senator Stephen Douglas for the Illinois see in the U.S. Senate over this issue of slavery. Douglas won the election but it brought Lincoln into the national spotlight

Answer 6

Abraham Lincoln

Question 7

————- let a slave rebellion in Virginia in which the slaves killed 60 whites however this rebellion made life worse for the slaves do to revenge

Answer 7

Nat Turner

Question 8

————- became the king of the south’s economy

Answer 8

Cotton

Question 9

In the US Congress the main argument over slavery was the weather or not it should be ————- into the territories

Answer 9

Extended

Question 10

————- A senator from Massachusetts was a phenomenal speaker and spoke out very strongly against slavery in the US Congress

Answer 10

Daniel Webster

Question 11

The ————— was built connecting the eastern United States to the West Coast of the United States through the Kansas Nebraska territory but opened up the slavery question against the US Congress

Answer 11

Transcontinental railroad

Question 12

The ————— was an informational network of guys and safe houses which helped hundreds of slaves to escape to freedom each year

Answer 12

Underground Railroad

Question 13

__________was a slave who sued for his freedom but lost in the Supreme Court because chief justice _________ rule that he is not a citizen so he couldn’t sue that Congress cannot determine slavery in the territories

Answer 13

Dred Scott

Roger Taney

Question 14

________was known as “the great Pacificator” for defending the keeping together of the union by developing the Missouri compromise and the compromise of 1850

Answer 14

Henry clay

Question 15

The development of the ________ which clean the seeds from the car in by Eli Whitney sealed the fate of slaves in the south

Answer 15

Cotton gin

Question 16

The ________ was fought from 1846- 1848 in which the US won easily and acquired to Western lands of California and New Mexico

Answer 16

Mexican- American War

Question 17

The _________ allowed for escaped slaves to be captured in the north and return to the south, and even made northerners help in capturing the escape slaves

Answer 17

Fugitive slave act

Question 18

_______ became a battleground over the issue of slavery in several hundred settlers were killed as a result of violence between proslavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers

Answer 18

Kansas

Question 19

After the Kansas Nebraska act of 1854 was passed the ________ was form to unite against the extension of slavery and to repel the Kansas Nebraska act in the fugitive slave laws

Answer 19

Republican party

Question 20

_________ by Henry Clay admitted California as a free state in Utah and New Mexico territories as open to slavery abolished the slave trade in Washington DC and created a stricter fugitive slave law

Answer 20

Compromise of 1850

Question 21

The ————— of 1819 was due to the government borrowing too much money and couldn’t repay it and to overspeculation by the banks of loaning money to the northern industries.

Answer 21

Panic

Question 22

The_________ for a secret group of nativists formed based on hate and prejudice to dislike immigrants Catholics African-Americans in Etc.

Answer 22

Know-nothings

Question 23

_________ written by Harriet Beecher Stowe he detailed cruelty of slavery and set up a strong abolish nest sentiment in the north

Answer 23

Uncle Toms cabin

Question 24

The ________ United in support of the Wilmot proviso to keep slavery out of the western territories

Answer 24

Free soil party

Question 25

_________, by senator Douglass gave the ability to the territory to vote whether it wanted to be slave or free.

Answer 25

Popular sovereignty

Question 26

The __________ of 1845 proposed be Stephen Douglass allowed the Kansas-Nebraska territories to determine whether or not they would be slave or free. It also abolished the 36 30’ free line of the Missouri compromise

Answer 26

Kansas-Nebraska act

Question 27

In 1836 Texan militia led by Davy Crockett and Jim bowie held the _________ for 12 days against the Mexican army

Answer 27

Almo

Question 28

The ___________ was proposed by representative David wilmot of Pennsylvania to ban slavery in any lands acquired from Mexico. This bill divided congressmen be sectional lines and passed the House of Representatives ,but never the senate

Answer 28

Wilmot Proviso

Question 29

In the United States _________ there were huge conflicts and disagreements between those who were pro- slavery (South) and anti-slavery (North)

Answer 29

Congress