Chapter 14 and 15 Test

Question 1

What did the doctrine of free soil insist?

Answer 1

That Congress prohibit slavery in the territories

Question 2

What would the solution of popular sovereignty allow?

Answer 2

It would allow each territory to decide the matter of slavery for themselves

Question 3

What did the Wilmot Proviso insist?

Answer 3

That Congress could bar slavery in any territory that Mexico had ceded to the Union

Question 4

Who wrote up the compromise of 1850 and sent it to President Taylor?

Answer 4

Henry Clay

Question 5

What six things did the Compromise of 1850 entail?

Answer 5

The admission of Cali. as a free state
The division of the remainder of the Mexican cession into two territories, New Mexico and Utah, without the federal restrictions on slavery
The settlement of the Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute on terms favorable to New Mexico
As an incentive for Texas, an agreement that the federal government would assume the considerable public debt of Texas
The continuance of slavery in the district of columbia but the abolition of the slave trade
A more effective slave law

Question 6

What was the compromise of 1850 organized into?

Answer 6

The omnibus bill

Question 7

Who gave the seventh or March speech?

Answer 7

Daniel Webster

Question 8

After Taylor’s death, who took the presidency?

Answer 8

Millard Fillmore

Question 9

Who finally instituted the compromise of 1850?

Answer 9

Stephen A. Douglas

Question 10

The did the fugitive slave act do?

Answer 10

Denied fugitives right of trial
Cannot testify on own behalf
Have to return to slavery
More money to commissioner if they ruled for the slaveholder

Question 11

What was happened after the attempt to free Anthony Burns

Answer 11

Shattered the complacency of conservative supporters of the compromise of 1850

Question 12

What anti-slavery book was turned into a play?

Answer 12

Uncle Tom’s cabin

Question 13

Who won the election of 1852?

Answer 13

Franklin Pierce

Question 14

Which election left the Whig party diminished to only the know-nothings and Republicans

Answer 14

1852

Question 15

What drove Douglas to organize the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Answer 15

His intent for a transcontinental railroad

Question 16

The Kansas-Nebraska act, which divided the Nebraska state into both slave and free, violated which doctrine?

Answer 16

The Missouri compromise

Question 17

How did Taney address the Dred Scott Case?

Answer 17

Scott could not sue for his freedom
No black or descent from a slave could become a US citizen
The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

Question 18

What events posed Lincoln as a true threat for presidency?

Answer 18

Lincoln-Douglas debates

Question 19

Whose name was not on any of the ballots in the election of 1860, even though he won?

Answer 19

Lincoln

Question 20

What was the aftermath of the election of 1860?

Answer 20

Southern States succeeded from the union

Question 21

What event marked the beginning of the confederate Army?

Answer 21

John Brown’s attacks on Harper’s Ferry

Question 22

Who was the first president of the confederate States?

Answer 22

Jefferson Davis

Question 23

What event marked the beginning of the civil war?

Answer 23

The cannon attacks on Fort Sumter

Question 24

What advantage and disadvantage did the Union army have against the confederate army?

Answer 24

They had more soldiers but they were not as experienced

Question 25

Who came up with the Anaconda Plan?

Answer 25

Winfield Scott

Question 26

What were the three parts to the Anaconda plan?

Answer 26

The Peninsula Campaign
The Western Campaign
Naval Blockade

Question 27

Who took over the Union army after the Peninsula Campaign?

Answer 27

George McClullen

Question 28

Who controlled the confederate army?

Answer 28

Robert E. Lee

Question 29

What was Lee’s strategy to win the war?

Answer 29

Wear out the Union Army

Question 30

Who led the captures of Paducah, Kentucky and Fort Donaldson

Answer 30

Ulysses S. Grant and Tecumseh Sherman

Question 31

What was the first major battle of the war and who won?

Answer 31

The Battle of Shiloh - Union Victory

Question 32

What was George McClullen’s major problem?

Answer 32

Too conservative and refused to use the army

Question 33

What was Lee’s strategy to winning the Battle of Seven Days?

Answer 33

To distract the Union Army away from Richmond

Question 34

What did Lincoln suspend in Virginia, allowing him to arrest any rebels or anyone anti-government?

Answer 34

Habeas Corpus

Question 35

Who won the Battle of Cedar Mountain?

Answer 35

Confederates

Question 36

Who won the second battle of Manassas

Answer 36

Confederates

Question 37

Who replaces McClullen after Lincoln fires him?

Answer 37

Albert Burnside

Question 38

Who decides to create an Ironclad to rival the confederates’?

Answer 38

Gideon Welles

Question 39

What did the contraband act say?

Answer 39

You could keep all southern Contraband as property

Question 40

What did the Confiscation Act say?

Answer 40

Allowed the Union to keep escaped slaves

Question 41

Who won the election of 1864?

Answer 41

Lincoln

Question 42

Who accepts the Confederate surrender?

Answer 42

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

Question 43

What was the first time we see sterile operating rooms and hospitals?

Answer 43

the Women’s Sanitary Society

Question 44

What did the Homestead Act say?

Answer 44

In each state, a hundred and sixty acres of free land west of the MI river, would be set aside for universities

Question 45

Which amendment banned slavery forever?

Answer 45

13th