Chapter 15 Test Flashcards
What called for the residents of Kansas and Nebraska to vote to decide the issue of slavery?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
What happened after “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was written?
White Southerners charged that the book did not portray slavery correctly.
What did Stephen A. Douglas support to keep the nation from breaking apart?
Compromise of 1850
Who murdered several proslavery settlers in Kansas during the slavery controversy?
John Brown
Why did Northerners not like the Fugitive Slave Act?
They had to follow rules and policy and didn’t want too
Who supported the Fugitive Slave Act because it gave them property back?
Southerners
What did the Supreme Court decide in the Dred Scott Vs. Sandford case?
Scott was not a citizen
Why were the Northerners upset about the Dred Scott Vs. Sandford case?
Because slavery could not be banned
What did the slavery issue during the 1860 presidential election do to the Democratic Party?
It split it into two
Who is the national hero that became the Republican parties president in 1856?
John C. Fremont
What was also known as the American Party?
Know-Nothing Party
Which party nominated Millar Fillmore as their presidential candidate in 1856?
Know-Nothing Party
Who was the Chief of Justice of the Supreme count that ruled Dred Scott vs. Sandford?
Roger B. Taney
Which party was formed by free-soilers, Northern Whigs, and Democrats who opposed the spread of slavery?
Republican Party
Who won in all but one slave state and was elected as a Democratic president in 1856?
James Buchanan
Which Illinois Republican became nationally known because of debates with his opponent during the campaign?
Abe Lincoln
Who called for popular sovereignty to decide on slavery in territories in the election of 1860?
Democratic Party
What did the Southern states do when they seceded?
They dissolved their ties to the United States
What was the name of the slave holding states that seceded from the Union?
The Confederate States of America
What is the name of the proposal to save the nation from splitting by compromising on slavery?
The Crittenden Compromise
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
How did the Supreme Court add to the tensions of 1850s
Refused to grant freedom to slaves who had lived on free soil.
