Chapter 16

Question 1

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 1

would ban slavery in any lands acquired from Mexico–didn’t pass

Question 2

slavery & 1848 election

Answer 2

Taylor & Cass ignored the issue of slavery

Question 3

Missouri Compromise

Answer 3

preserved the balance between slave & free states

Question 4

how Millard Fillmore became president

Answer 4

Pres. Taylor died suddenly in 1850-VP Fillmore took over

Question 5

alternative to Wilmot Proviso

Answer 5

offered by John C. Calhoun–didn’t pass either

Question 6

Henry David Thoreau

Answer 6

wrote “Civil Disobedience” against Fugitive Slave Act–shouldn’t follow laws one considers unjust

Question 7

Freeport Doctrine

Answer 7

came from Lincoln-Douglas debates–regarding excluding slavery in new territories/states

Question 8

Roger B. Taney

Answer 8

wrote Dred Scott decision–said Congress didn’t have power to ban slavery

Question 9

Compromise of 1850

Answer 9

Stephen Douglas’s solution to Henry Clay’s slavery plan

Question 10

Zachary Taylor

Answer 10

won 1848 presidential election–Whig–died in office

Question 11

abstain

Answer 11

to not vote

Question 12

John C. Calhoun’s views on slavery in territories

Answer 12

neither Congress nor local govt. could ban slavery from a territory

Question 13

feelings about Fugitive Slave Act in North

Answer 13

anger–unwillingness to follow law–juries didn’t convict

Question 14

Dred Scott decision & reaction to it

Answer 14

Scott was still a slave–wasn’t a citizen & had no right to bring a lawsuit–Congress had no power to ban slavery–South happy/North outraged

Question 15

violent opponent of slavery

Answer 15

John Brown led a raid on federal arsenal (weapons storage) in Virginia

Question 16

Franklin Pierce in 1853

Answer 16

became president–intended to enforce Fugitive Slave Act

Question 17

who wanted to annex Texas

Answer 17

James K. Polk & Democrats

Question 18

main topic of Lincoln-Douglas debates

Answer 18

slavery