Chapter 16

Question 0

Who won the Election of 1848?

Answer 0

Zachary Taylor

Question 1

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 1

A proposal that all land the US acquired from Mexico would ban slavery. (never passed)

Question 2

What was the name for the bills that dealt with slavery in the states added since the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 2

Compromise of 1850

Question 3

What required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves in 1850?

Answer 3

The Fugitive Slave Act

Question 4

Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be, what two things?

Answer 4

Fined or Imprisoned

Question 5

What did the enforcement of this act do?

Answer 5

Caused more anger in the North

Question 6

What increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the U.S.?

Answer 6

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 7

What is popular sovereignty?

Answer 7

Letting people decide for themselves about an issue

Question 8

Which territory was the first to have blood shed over slavery?

Answer 8

Kansas

Question 9

Who was the violent abolitionist that believed God had chosen him to end slavery?

Answer 9

John Brown

Question 10

What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?

Answer 10

Sen. Charles Sumner (MA) lashed out against those who supported slavery, including Sen. Andrew Butler (SC). A few Days Later, Butler’s Cousin, Rep. Brooks (SC) came into the senate chamber and hit Sumner w/ a cane until unconscious & bleeding.

Question 11

What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to become?

Answer 11

The Republican Party

Question 12

Who did Dred Scott sue?

Answer 12

His owner

Question 13

What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?

Answer 13

Divided the nation even more than it already was

Question 14

Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled on the Dred Scott case?

Answer 14

Roger B. Taney

Question 15

According to the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Constitution do?

Answer 15

Protected slavery

Question 16

What Senate race became the center of national attention?

Answer 16

Illinois Senate race between Stephen A. Douglas (D) vs. Abraham Lincoln (R)

Question 17

What party was each candidate a part of? (Illinois Senate Race)

Answer 17

Abraham Lincoln (R)
Stephen A. Douglas (D)

Question 18

What was the main topic of the debates during that election? (Illinois Senate Race)

Answer 18

Slavery

Question 19

Who won the Illinois Senate race?

Answer 19

Stephen A Douglas (D)

Question 20

What was the name of the event when John Brown led men to attack a weapon storage facility?

Answer 20

The Raid on Harper’s Ferry

Question 21

What was Brown hoping to start at the Raid on Harpers Ferry?

Answer 21

A rebellion against slaveholders

Question 22

After this event (Raid on Harper’s Ferry), what became a rallying cry for many abolitionists?

Answer 22

Brown’s Execution

Question 23

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

Answer 23

South Carolina

Question 24

After seven states seceded, what was formed on Feb. 4, 1861?

Answer 24

The Confederate States of America

Question 25

How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?

Answer 25

States’ Rights

Question 26

Who was the first President of the CSA?

Answer 26

Jefferson Davis

Question 27

Whose hands did President Lincoln say the possibility of war was in?

Answer 27

The People

Question 28

Confederate guns opened fire on what on April 12, 1861?

Answer 28

Fort Sumter (Charleston, South Carolina)

Question 29

What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Answer 29

The Attack on Fort Sumter