Chapter 16

Question 1

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 1

A proposal what would band slavery

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

Fugitive slave act

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Fined of imprisoned

Question 6

What did the enforcement of this act do?

Answer 6

Increased the amount of territory open to slave holding

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 by themselves

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

Charles lashed out against those for slavery

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

Stanford

Question 14

What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?

Answer 14

Divided the nation even more

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Roger b Taney

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Protected slavery

Question 17

What Senate race became the center of national attention?

Answer 17

Illinois

Question 18

What party was each candidate a part of?

Answer 18

.

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Slavery

Question 20

Who won the Illinois Senate race between Lincoln and Douglas?

Answer 20

Douglas

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Harpies fairy

Question 22

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

Answer 22

To kill all slave owners

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Confederate states of America

Question 24

What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Answer 24

Attack of fort sumner

Question 25

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

Answer 25

For summer

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Propels hands

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Jefferson Davis

Question 28

How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?

Answer 28

States rights