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

Compromise of 1850 ( 5 bills were passed to make up the plan that expanded upon the Missouri Compromise because of the added states)

Question 3

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

Answer 3

The Fugitive Slave

Question 4

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

Answer 4

They could be fined or imprisoned

Question 5

What did the enforcement of this act do?

Answer 5

It caused more anger in the North

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 the,selves 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

Violence over slavery broke out in Congress. Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts lashed out against those for slavery, including Andrew P. Butler from South Carolina. A few days later Butler’s cousin, Representative Preston hit Sumner with a cane, leaving him unconscious and bleeding

Question 11

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

Answer 11

The Republican Party

Question 12

Who did Dred Scott sue?

Answer 12

His owner’s family

Question 13

What did the Dred Scott Decision do 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

Chief Roger B. Taney

Question 15

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

Answer 15

The Constitution protected slavery

Question 16

What senate race became the center of national attention?

Answer 16

Lincoln and Douglas Debate (which took place in Illinois)

Question 17

What party was each candidate a part of?

Answer 17

Lincoln was a Republican

Stephen A. Douglas was a Democrat

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

Douglas

Question 20

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 20

A proposal that would ban slavery in any lands that the U.S. acquired from Mexico, but it never passed

Question 21

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

Answer 21

The Raid on Harpers Ferry (in Virginia)

Question 22

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

Answer 22

He hoped to start a rebellion against slaveholders by arming slaves, but he and his men were quickly defeated

Question 23

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

Answer 23

John Brown’s Execution

Question 24

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

Answer 24

South Carolina

Question 25

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

Answer 25

They formed a new nation and a new government called The Confederate States of America

Question 26

How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?

Answer 26

Justified secession with the belief in states’ rights

Question 27

Who was the first President of the Confederate States of America?

Answer 27

Jefferson Davis

Question 28

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

Answer 28

The people’s hands, not his

Question 29

What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Answer 29

The Fort Sumter attack marked the beginning of the Civil War

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Fort Sumter