Chapter 16

Question 1

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 1

Proposal that would ban slavery in any lands that the US acquired from Mexico. (Never passed)

Question 2

Who won the Election of 1848?

Answer 2

Zachary Taylor

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Compromise of 1850

Question 4

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

Answer 4

The Fugitive Slave Act

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Fined or imprisoned

Question 6

What did the enforcement of this act do?

Answer 6

Caused more anger in the North

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 8

What is popular sovereignty?

Answer 8

Letting people decide for themselves about an issue

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Kansas

Question 10

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

Answer 10

John Brown

Question 11

What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?

Answer 11

Senator Charles Sumner lashed out against those for slavery, including Andrew P Butler

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Republican Party

Question 13

Who did Dred Scott sue?

Answer 13

Sandford His owner

Question 14

What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?

Answer 14

Divided it even more

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Basically stated that the Constitution protected slavery

Question 16

What Senate race became the center of national attention?

Answer 16

Lincoln and Douglas Debates

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

The Raid on Harper’s Ferry

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Rebellion against slave holders

Question 22

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

Answer 22

John Browns 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

Confederate States of America

Question 25

How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?

Answer 25

Belief 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 Fort Sumter attack