Chapter 16

Question 0

Who won the Election of 1848?

Answer 0

Zachary Taylor

Question 1

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 1

Proposal to ban all slavery in the land gained from Mexico

Question 2

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

Answer 2

The fugitive slave act

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Fined or imprisoned

Question 4

What did the enforcement of this act do?

Answer 4

Angered the north

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Kansas-Nebraska act

Question 6

What is popular sovereignty?

Answer 6

Letting the people decide on a important issue

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Kansas

Question 8

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

Answer 8

John Brown

Question 9

What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?

Answer 9

After senator summer lashed out against senator Butler Butler’s cousin rep.Preston brooks beat summer with a cane

Question 10

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

Answer 10

The Republicans

Question 11

Who did Dred Scott sue?

Answer 11

His former owner

Question 12

What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?

Answer 12

Divides the nation

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Rogers Taney

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Support slavery

Question 15

What Senate race became the center of national attention?

Answer 15

Lincoln vs Douglas

Question 16

What party was each candidate a part of?

Answer 16

Republicans- Lincoln

Democrats - Douglas

Question 17

What was the main topic of the debates during that election?

Answer 17

Slavery

Question 18

Who won the Illinois Senate race?

Answer 18

Douglas

Question 19

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

Answer 19

The raid on harpers ferry

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Slave revolution

Question 21

After this event, what became a rallying cry for many abolitionists?

Answer 21

Browns death

Question 22

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

Answer 22

South Carolina

Question 23

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

Answer 23

The CSA

Question 24

How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?

Answer 24

They felt their states righted were being infringed on

Question 25

Who was the first President of the CSA?

Answer 25

Jefferson Davis

Question 26

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

Answer 26

The people

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Fort sumpter

Question 28

What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Answer 28

The fort sumpter attack