Chapter 15

Question 1

was in charge of winning the bill as a Democratic Party “whig”

Answer 1

Stephen Douglas

Question 2

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 2

wrote uncle Tom’s cabin in 1852

Question 3

Murdered five people because of their proslavery views

Answer 3

John Brown

Question 4

senator of Massachusetts who gave an anti-slavery speech in Congress

Answer 4

Charles Sumner

Question 5

first presidential candidate for Republican Party

Answer 5

John Fremont

Question 6

Dred Scott

Answer 6

was taken into a free state then back into a slave state

Question 7

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 7

candidate in 1860 he wanted to stop the spread of slave

Question 8

stated that slavery would be outlawed in any territory

Answer 8

William Proviso

Question 9

compromise of 1850

Answer 9

States California would be admitted as a free state

Question 10

fugitive slave act

Answer 10

made it illegal to assist or help runaway slaves

Question 11

Kansas Nebraska act of 1854

Answer 11

• allowed settlers decide whether or not to have slavery within their territories
• repealed this 3630 line of the Missouri compromise

Question 12

created from the northern whigs, free-soilers, and a few Northern Democrats opposed slavery

Answer 12

republican Party

Question 13

Lincoln Douglas debate

Answer 13

• Douglas argued slavery should be decided by popular sovereignty
• Douglas won the debate

Question 14

attack had failed and John Brown was captured and hang for murder in treason

Answer 14

Harpers Ferry

Question 15

political Siri southerners use to justify withdrawing from the union

Answer 15

States rights

Question 16

biggest issue that divided the north and south

Answer 16

compromise of 1850

Question 17

allowed settler to decide whether not to have slavery within those territories

Answer 17

popular sovereignty

Question 18

first seven states that seceded

Answer 18

South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas

Question 19

suffrage

Answer 19

The right to vote in political election

Question 20

abolition

Answer 20

The idea of abolishing slavery

Question 21

form to stop the spread of slavery into the new territories

Answer 21

free soil party

Question 22

correct order of events

Answer 22

Wilmot Proviso
free soil party
republican Party
Abraham Lincoln become president
secession of South Carolina

Question 23

alternate anti-slavery government was set up in Lawrence Kansas

Answer 23

bleeding kansas

Question 24

created the plant to settle the California problem

Answer 24

Henry Clay