Chapter 16 Study Guide

Question 1

Who won the Election of 1848?

Answer 1

Zachary Taylor

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Compromise of 1850

Question 3

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

Answer 3

The Fugitive Slave Act

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Fined or Imprisoned

Question 5

What did the enforcement of this act do?

Answer 5

Caused more anger in the north

Question 6

What is popular sovereignty?

Answer 6

Letting people decide for themselves about an issue

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Kansas

Question 8

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

Answer 8

John Brown

Question 9

What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?

Answer 9

Senator Charles Sumner lashed out aganist those for slavery

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Republican Party

Question 11

Who did Dred Scott sue?

Answer 11

His owner

Question 12

What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?

Answer 12

Divided the nation

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Roger B. Taney

Question 14

What Senate race became the center of national attention?

Answer 14

Illinois

Question 15

What party was each candidate a part of?

Answer 15

Republican- Abraham Lincoln

Democrat- Stephen A. Douglas

Question 16

What was the main topic of the debates during that election?

Answer 16

Slavery

Question 17

Who won the Illinois Senate race?

Answer 17

Douglas

Question 18

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

Answer 18

The Raid on Harpers Ferry

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Rebellion aganist slaveholders by arming slaves

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Browns death

Question 21

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

Answer 21

South Carolina

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Confederate States of America

Question 23

How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?

Answer 23

With the belief in states rights

Question 24

Who was the first President of the CSA?

Answer 24

Lincoln

Question 25

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

Answer 25

In the peoples hands

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Fort Sumer

Question 27

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 27

A proposal that would ban slavery in any lands that the US aquired from Mexico, but never passed

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Kansas- Nebraska Act

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Protected slavery

Question 30

What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Answer 30

The Capture of Fort Sumter

Question 31

Who was the first President of the CSA?

Answer 31

Jefferson Davis