Chapter 10 - The Union in Peril

Question 0

Decision by a state to leave the Union.

Answer 0

Secession

Question 1

Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico.

Answer 1

Wilmot Proviso

Question 2

Series of measures that were intended to settle the disagreements between the free and slave states.

Answer 2

Compromise of 1850

Question 3

Idea that people living in a territory should make their own decisions, especially the decision to admit slavery.

Answer 3

Popular sovereignty

Question 4

Senator from Illinois who worked to pass the Compromise of 1850.

Answer 4

Stephen A. Douglas

Question 5

13th president.

Answer 5

Millard Fillmore

Question 6

Law that provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and for those who helped them.

Answer 6

Fugitive Slave Act

Question 7

Laws passed by Northern states forbidding the imprisonment of escapes slaves.

Answer 7

Personal liberty laws

Question 8

Secret network of people who hid fugitive slaves who went north to freedom

Answer 8

Underground Railroad

Question 9

Famous “conductor” of the Underground Railroad

Answer 9

Harriet Tubman

Question 10

Author of the antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Answer 10

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 11

Antislavery novel.

Answer 11

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 12

Law that split Nebraska into the territories of Nebraska and Kansas and allowed for popular sovereignty there.

Answer 12

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 13

Fierce opponent of slavery who led a raid that five proslavery people.

Answer 13

John Brown

Question 14

Nickname given to e Kansas Territory because of the bloody violence there.

Answer 14

Bleeding Kansas

Question 15

14th president.

Answer 15

Franklin Pierce

Question 16

Favoring native-born people over immigrants.

Answer 16

Nativism

Question 17

Political party form to stop influence of immigrants.

Answer 17

Know-Nothing Party

Question 18

Political party form to oppose extending slavery in the territories.

Answer 18

Free-Soil Party

Question 19

Political party form to oppose extending slavery in the territories.

Answer 19

Republican Party

Question 20

Newspaper editor who strongly supported the newly formed Republican Party.

Answer 20

Horace Greeley

Question 21

Republican candidate in the 1856 presidential election.

Answer 21

John C. Frémont

Question 22

15th President.

Answer 22

James Buchanan.

Question 23

Slave who was briefly taken by his owner into free territory.

Answer 23

Dred Scott

Question 24

Chief Justice who wrote the ruling Dred Scott case.

Answer 24

Roger B. Taney

Question 25

President during the Civil War.

Answer 25

Abraham Lincoln

Question 26

Idea that any territory could ban slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it.

Answer 26

Freeport Doctrine

Question 27

Location of federal arsenal that John Brown raided to get guns to arm slaves.

Answer 27

Harpers Ferry

Question 28

“Confederate Sates of America,” formed in 1861 by the Southern states that seceded from the Union.

Answer 28

Confederancy

Question 29

President of the Confederate States of America.

Answer 29

Jefferson Davis