Chapter 16

Question 1

Who won the Election of 1848?

Answer 1

Zachory 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

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

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

Sumner lashed out at people for slavery and then brooks came in and hit him with a cane

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Repubilcans

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

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

Protect slavery

Question 16

What Senate race became the center of national attention?

Answer 16

Lincoln vs. Douglass

Question 17

What party was each candidate a part of?

Answer 17

Lincoln-R

Douglas-D

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

Answer 20

Raid on Harpers Ferry

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Brown’s death

Question 22

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 22

A proposal that would ban slavery for any lands that the us aquired from Mexico, but never passed