Chapter 16

Question 1

Who won the Election of 1848?

Answer 1

Zachary Taylor

Question 2

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

Answer 2

The 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

It caused more anger in both the North and South.

Question 6

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

Answer 6

The 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

Senator Charles Sumner lashed out against those who supported slavery, including Andrew P. Butler.

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

It divided the nation even more.

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

He basically said that the Constitution protected slavery.

Question 16

What Senate race became the center of national attention?

Answer 16

The Lincoln-Douglas Debate.

Question 17

What party was each candidate a part of?

Answer 17

Abraham Lincoln- Republican.

Stephen A. Douglas- Democratic.

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Slavery.

Question 19

Who won the Illinois Senate race?

Answer 19

Stephen A. Douglas.

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 Harpers Ferry.

Question 21

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

Answer 21

He hoped to start a rebellion against slaveholders by arming slaves.

Question 22

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

Answer 22

His Death.

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

They justified it with the beleif in 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 peoples’.

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Fort Sumter.

Question 29

What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Answer 29

The Battle at Fort Sumter.

Question 30

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 30

A proposal that would ban slavery in and territory aquired from Mexico. It never passed.