Chapter 16

Question 1

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 1

A proposal that would ban slavery in any lands that the us acquired from Mexico

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

A fugitive slave could be fined on imprisoned

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

Kansas- Nebraska act

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 ppl decide for themselves about slavery

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Kansas

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Senator Charles summers of lashed out against those for slavery

Question 11

What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?

Answer 11

Butler cousin, ref Preston Brook, walked into the senate chamber and hit summers with a cane

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Antis whigs

Question 13

Who did Dred Scott sue?

Answer 13

He divided the nation even more

Question 14

What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?

Answer 14

He decision basically stated that the constitution protected slavery

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Lincoln and Douglas debates

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Senate race in lllionie became the center of national

Question 17

What Senate race became the center of national attention?

Answer 17

Lincoln vs Stephen

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Douglas won a narrow victory in the election

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Lincoln lost this election but gained a positive national reputation

Question 20

Who won the Illinois Senate race between Lincoln and Douglas?

Answer 20

John brown

Question 21

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

Answer 21

He hoped to start a rebellion against slaveholder

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Brown was executed of treason and his death became a rallying

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Election of 1860

Question 24

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

Answer 24

South Carolina

Question 25

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

Answer 25

A new national and a new gout caused the confederate state of American

Question 26

How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?

Answer 26

Justified secession with the belief in state rights

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Jefferson Davis

Question 28

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

Answer 28

It in people hands

Question 29

Confederate guns opened fire on what on April 12, 1861

Answer 29

The fort Sumter