Chapter 14-Storm Clouds Over The Nation

Question 0

“Wage slaves”

Answer 0

Northern workers who were so poor that the Southerners called them this.

Question 1

Antebellum

Answer 1

Before the war period.

Question 2

Northern justification

Answer 2

Article 6

Question 3

Southern justification

Answer 3

Amendment 10 and the contract theory of government.

Question 4

“Middle Passage”

Answer 4

Was perhaps the slaves worst experience.

Question 5

Overseer

Answer 5

Distributed the work among the slaves.

Question 6

Gang system

Answer 6

Slaves working in large groups on a common project.

Question 7

Task system

Answer 7

Slaves given individual tasks to complete;

upon completion the slave could do as he pleased.

Question 8

“Underground Railroad “

Answer 8

Helped blacks escape to the north.

Question 9

Abolitionists

Answer 9

People who desired to abolish slavery.

Question 10

Frederick Douglass

Answer 10

The leading black abolitionist.

Question 11

Harriet Tubman

Answer 11

Worked on the Underground Railroad.

Question 12

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 12

Began the newspaper, the Liberator.

Question 13

Horace Greeley

Answer 13

Antislavery journalist from the New York Tribune.

Question 14

“Spirituals “

Answer 14

Songs that slaves sang, that often revealed how they felt and about their conditions.

Question 15

Uncle Tom’s cabin

Answer 15

Was written by Harriet Stowe and became one of the most influential novels ever written.

Question 16

Harriet Stowe

Answer 16

Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 17

Stephan Douglas

Answer 17

He introduced a bill that applied the idea of popular sovereignty to Kansas and Nebraska.

Question 18

Popular sovereignty

Answer 18

People were allowed to decide whether they wanted to have slavery.

Question 19

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 19

Kansas and Nebraska became states through this act.

Question 20

Republican Party

Answer 20

Was formed in 1854 by antislavery groups

Question 21

James Buchanan

Answer 21

Became president

Question 22

Charles Sumner

Answer 22

Delivered an angry speech about the fighting in Kansas.

Question 23

Preston Brooks

Answer 23

Beat up Sen. Sumner

Question 24

Dred Scott

Answer 24

A slave who had lived briefly in the free state of Wisconsin

Question 25

Roger B. Taney

Answer 25

He was the chief justice in the court room when discussing about Dred Scott’s case.

Question 26

John Brown

Answer 26

He was a radical abolitionist who advocated violence

Question 27

Robert E. Lee

Answer 27

Defeated John Brown and his troops.

Question 28

Fire-eaters

Answer 28

A group of radical Southerners who threatened secession if the Republicans won the election.

Question 29

Secession

Answer 29

To leave the union

Question 30

John C. Breckenridge

Answer 30

Promoted by the southern Democrats

Question 31

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 31

Promoted by the Republicans

Question 32

John Bell

Answer 32

Promoted by the Constitutional Union

Question 33

Constitutional union party

Answer 33

Promoted staying in the union

Question 34

Confederate states of America

Answer 34

Recognize the “sovereign and independent character” of the states and guaranteed states rights.

Question 35

Jefferson Davis

Answer 35

The president of South Carolina

Question 36

Alexander Stephens

Answer 36

Vice president of South Carolina

Question 37

Fort Sumter

Answer 37

is a Third System masonry sea fort located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.

Question 38

Robert Anderson

Answer 38

The union commander

Question 39

West Virginia

Answer 39

The western 50 countries of the state broke apart and became this.