Chapter 10 - Test

Question 1

Violence in Kansas caused it to be called this

Answer 1

Bleeding Kansas

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Popular sovereignty

Question 3

Led the confederates in the battle of Fort Sumter

Answer 3

Beauregone

Question 4

This slave sued the government for his freedom

Answer 4

Fred Scott

Question 5

President of the confederacy

Answer 5

Jefferson Davis

Question 6

The leader of the marines who captured John Brown

Answer 6

Robert E. Lee

Question 7

The most famous conductor of the underground rail road

Answer 7

Harriet Tubman

Question 8

This law allowed southerners to claim escaped slaves

Answer 8

Fugitive Slave Act

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Kansa-Nebraska Act

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Fort Sumter

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Sectionalism

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Wilmot proviso

Question 13

This purchase from Mexico that completed the continental US

Answer 13

Gadsden Purchase

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Harpers Ferry

Question 15

This was instituted by the president to keep Maryland from seceding

Answer 15

Martial law

Question 16

Fort Sumter is in the harbor of this city

Answer 16

Charlestown

Question 17

Northern Whigs who opposed slavery

Answer 17

Conscience Whigs

Question 18

The first state to secede from the union

Answer 18

South Carolina

Question 19

A popular vote is called this

Answer 19

Referendum

Question 20

A political group that was anti-catholic and nativist

Answer 20

Know-Nothings

Question 21

He was the republican nominee for president in 1856

Answer 21

Fremont

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland

Question 23

He was elected president in 1848

Answer 23

Zachary Taylor

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Where it would begin

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Levi Coffin

Question 26

Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 26

Harriet Stowe

Question 27

These 6 states had seceded by February 1861

Answer 27

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

Question 28

He proposed the compromise of 1850

Answer 28

Henry clay

Question 29

After the fall of fort Sumter these states seceded

Answer 29

Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, and Arkansas

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Winston

Question 31

First Capitol of the confederacy

Answer 31

Montgomery

Question 32

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

Answer 32

LeCompton

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Critlendons compromise

Question 34

He led the raid on Harpers Ferry

Answer 34

John Brown