Chapter 16

Question 1

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

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Question 2

Who won the Election of 1848?

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Question 3

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

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Question 4

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

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Question 5

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

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Question 6

What did the enforcement of this act do?

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Question 7

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

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Question 8

What is popular sovereignty?

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Question 9

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

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Question 10

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

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Question 11

What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?

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Question 12

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

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Question 13

Who did Dred Scott sue?

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Question 14

What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?

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Question 15

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

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Question 16

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

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Question 17

What Senate race became the center of national attention?

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Question 18

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

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Question 19

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

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Question 20

Who won the Illinois Senate race between Lincoln and Douglas?

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Question 21

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

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Question 22

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

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Question 23

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

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Question 24

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

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Question 25

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

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Question 26

How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?

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Question 27

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

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Question 28

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

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Question 29

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

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Question 30

What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

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