Chapter 16

Question 1

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 1

Proposal that would ban slavery in any land aquired from mexico

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Compermise of 1850

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Fugitive slave act

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Fined or imprisioned

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

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

Jhon brown

Question 10

What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?

Answer 10

Senator charles sumer lashed out at pro slavery people

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Soil 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 it

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Rodger b. Taney

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Would not allow dred scott to seu his owner

Question 16

What Senate race became the center of national attention

Answer 16

Lincon v.s buchann

Question 17

What party was each candidate a part of?

Answer 17

Soils party

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Slavery

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Harpers ferry

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Civil war

Question 21

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

Answer 21

South carolina

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Confedrate states of america

Question 23

How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?

Answer 23

Belief in state rights

Question 24

Who was the first President of the CSA?

Answer 24

Jefferson davis

Question 25

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

Answer 25

The peoples

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Fort sumpter

Question 27

What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Answer 27

Fort sumpter attack

Question 28

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 28

Purposal that would ban slavery in the land the u.s aquired from mexico