Chapter 16

Question 1

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 1

Proposal that would ban slavery in any lands but never got passed

Question 2

Who won the Election of 1848?

Answer 2

Zachary Taylor ,12th president

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 1812

Question 4

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

Answer 4

The fugitive state 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.?
What is popular sovereignty?

Answer 7

Kansas-Nebraska act

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

A

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Republican Party

Question 12

Who did Dred Scott sue?

Answer 12

His owners Sanford

Question 13

What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?

Answer 13

Divide nation even more

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Chief Justice roger B.toney

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

Senate race in Illinois

Question 17

What party was each candidate a part of in the Lincoln-Douglas race?

Answer 17

Democratic

Question 18

What was the main topic of the debates during the Lincoln-Douglas election?

Answer 18

Slavery

Question 19

Who won the Illinois Senate race between Lincoln and Douglas?

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 in harpers ferry

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Rebellion against slaveholders

Question 22

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

Answer 22

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

A new nation and confederate states of America

Question 25

How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?

Answer 25

Belief in state rights

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Jefferson Davis

Question 27

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

Answer 27

People’s hands

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

Fort Sumter attack