Chapter 13

Question 1

Location where the first shot of the War Between the States fired

Answer 1

Fort Sumpter

Question 2

Belief that each territory can decide on the status of slavery within its borders

Answer 2

Popular Sovereignty

Question 3

Acceptance of slavery in the South, rejection of slavery in the territories

Answer 3

Free-Soiler

Question 4

California gold rush

Answer 4

Forty-niner

Question 5

Radical Southerner

Answer 5

Fire-eater

Question 6

Anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic

Answer 6

Know-nothing

Question 7

Antislavery, probusiness

Answer 7

Republican

Question 8

Slave revolt

Answer 8

Secret six

Question 9

Leaving the union

Answer 9

Secession

Question 10

Southern representative who caned a Northern senator in the Senate chamber

Answer 10

Preston Brooks

Question 11

Constitutional Union candidate in the crucial election of 1860

Answer 11

John Bell

Question 12

Illinois senator who was one of the major proponents of popular sovereignty

Answer 12

Stephen Douglas

Question 13

War hero and the first Republican candidate for president

Answer 13

John C. Fremont

Question 14

Last Democrat, pro-compromise president (1857-61)

Answer 14

James Buchanan

Question 15

Fanatical antislavery terrorist

Answer 15

John Brown

Question 16

Supreme Court Chief Justice who denied that blacks had citizenship rights

Answer 16

Roger Taney

Question 17

First Republican president

Answer 17

Abraham Lincoln

Question 18

President of the Confederate States of America

Answer 18

Jefferson Davis

Question 19

Southern Democrat candidate in the crucial election of 1860

Answer 19

John C Breckinridge

Question 20

This said slavery must be banned in any territory acquired from Mexico

Answer 20

Wilmont Provisio

Question 21

This stated that could not be banned in any territory became a state

Answer 21

Calhoun Resolutions

Question 22

This would ensure that the transcontinental railroad would benefit Illinois

Answer 22

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 23

Territories can prohibit slavery by refusing to adopt laws that establish it

Answer 23

Freeport Doctrine

Question 24

His compromise measure failed in a last-ditch effort to save the Union

Answer 24

John J. Crittenden

Question 25

The former slave who the Supreme Court denied was a citizen with rights

Answer 25

Dred Scott

Question 26

Party was created in 1860 by conservative Northerners and Southerners who wanted to preserve the Union

Answer 26

Constitutional Union Party

Question 27

This party’s slogan was “Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men”

Answer 27

Free soil party

Question 28

The Southern spokesman for slavery in the territories

Answer 28

John C Calhoun

Question 29

Federal arsenal was attacked in 1859 in hopes of sparking a slave revolt

Answer 29

Harper’s Ferry

Question 30

Why did the South resist admission of California as a state?

Answer 30

Feared the loss of power in the Senate

Question 31

According to Daniel Webster why was the debate over slavery in the new territories needless?

Answer 31

The climate of the new territories cannot support slavery

Question 32

What was probably the most effective propaganda tool for abolition?

Answer 32

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 33

What was the basic position of the Freeport Doctorine

Answer 33

Territories can prohibit slavery by refusing to adopt laws that establish it

Question 34

What event caused the Lower South to secede?

Answer 34

The election of Lincoln

Question 35

What event caused the Upper South to secede?

Answer 35

Lincoln’s call for troops

Question 36

Explain the majority opinion and Chief Justice Taney’s view I’m the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford

Answer 36

The majority ruled that, as a slave, Dred Scott was not a citizen and therefore had no right to sue. According to Taney, the constitution did not recognize slaves or free blacks as citizens. Taney went on to rule that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional on the grounds that it unfairly deprived slaveholders of their property in territories north of Missouri’s southern border

Question 37

Explain the basic positions promoted by Lincoln and Douglas in their famous debates

Answer 37

Douglas promoted popular sovereignty as the answer to the slavery question. He believed that it was a matter for the settlers in the territories to decide for themselves. Douglas also accused Lincoln of promoting the absolute equality of the races. Although Lincoln backed off from the issue of equality he refused to deny that slavery was immoral. According to Lincoln the heart of the issue was not black equality but the immorality and expansion of slavery. He did not at that point advocate the abolition of slavery where it then existed but only the prohibition of the extension of slavery into the territories