Chapter 10 - Test Flashcards

1
Q

Violence in Kansas caused it to be called this

A

Bleeding Kansas

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2
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Idea people that the people of a territory should decide on the slavery issue

A

Popular sovereignty

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3
Q

Led the confederates in the battle of Fort Sumter

A

Beauregone

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4
Q

This slave sued the government for his freedom

A

Fred Scott

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5
Q

President of the confederacy

A

Jefferson Davis

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6
Q

The leader of the marines who captured John Brown

A

Robert E. Lee

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7
Q

The most famous conductor of the underground rail road

A

Harriet Tubman

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8
Q

This law allowed southerners to claim escaped slaves

A

Fugitive Slave Act

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9
Q

This act destroyed the Whig party but led to to the rise of the Republican Party

A

Kansa-Nebraska Act

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10
Q

The attack on this fort is considered to be the first battle of the civil war

A

Fort Sumter

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11
Q

Have more loyalty to the area you live in than the country

A

Sectionalism

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12
Q

If this law had passed it would have prohibited slavery in the territory gained from Mexico

A

Wilmot proviso

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13
Q

This purchase from Mexico that completed the continental US

A

Gadsden Purchase

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14
Q

The raid in this place was meant to provide arms for a slave rebellion

A

Harpers Ferry

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15
Q

This was instituted by the president to keep Maryland from seceding

A

Martial law

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16
Q

Fort Sumter is in the harbor of this city

A

Charlestown

17
Q

Northern Whigs who opposed slavery

A

Conscience Whigs

18
Q

The first state to secede from the union

A

South Carolina

19
Q

A popular vote is called this

A

Referendum

20
Q

A political group that was anti-catholic and nativist

A

Know-Nothings

21
Q

He was the republican nominee for president in 1856

A

Fremont

22
Q

These were the border states that Lincoln wanted to keep in the union

A

Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland

23
Q

He was elected president in 1848

A

Zachary Taylor

24
Q

The Transcontinental railroad was not built before the war because of arguments over this

A

Where it would begin

25
Q

This Quaker helped many slaves escape by hiding them in his home

A

Levi Coffin

26
Q

Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

A

Harriet Stowe

27
Q

These 6 states had seceded by February 1861

A

Alabama, Florida, Texas, Georgia, Louisiana, & Mississippi

28
Q

He proposed the compromise of 1850

A

Henry clay

29
Q

After the fall of fort Sumter these states seceded

A

Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, and Arkansas

30
Q

Area of Alabama that didn’t want to be apart of the war called themselves the free state of this

A

Winston

31
Q

First Capitol of the confederacy

A

Montgomery

32
Q

This constitution which would have legalized slavery in Kansas, was a rejected by the settlers

A

LeCompton

33
Q

Thus proposed the extension of the slavery to the border of California

A

Critlendons compromise

34
Q

He led the raid on Harpers Ferry

A

John Brown