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

The Compromise of 1850

Question 3

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

Answer 3

The Fugative Slave Act

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Fined or Imprisioned

Question 5

What did the enforcement of this act do?

Answer 5

It caused more anger in the North

Question 6

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

Answer 6

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 7

What is popular sovereignty?

Answer 7

Letting people decide for themselves about an issue

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Kansas

Question 9

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

Answer 9

John Brown

Question 10

What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?

Answer 10

Senator Charles Sumner of Mass. lashed out against those for slavery, including Andrew P. Butler, and Butler’s cousin, Rep. Preston Brooks, walked into the Senate chamber and hit Sumner with a cane, leaving him unconscious and bleeding

Question 11

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

Answer 11

The Republican Party

Question 12

Who did Dred Scott sue?

Answer 12

His Owner (The Sanders Family)

Question 13

What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?

Answer 13

It divided the nation even more

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Justice Roger B. Taney

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Protect Slavery

Question 16

What Senate race became the center of national attention?

Answer 16

Lincoln vs. Douglas or the Lincoln and Douglas Debates

Question 17

What party was each candidate a part of?

Answer 17

Lincoln- Republican Douglas- Democrat

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Slavery

Question 19

Who won the Illinois Senate race?

Answer 19

Douglas

Question 20

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

Answer 20

The Raid on Harpers Ferry

Question 21

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

Answer 21

A Rebellion against Slaveholders by arming slaves

Question 22

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

Answer 22

John Brown’s Execution

Question 23

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

Answer 23

South Carolina

Question 24

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

Answer 24

The Confederate States of America

Question 25

How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?

Answer 25

With the beleif in states rights

Question 26

Who was the first President of the CSA?

Answer 26

Jefferson Davis

Question 27

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

Answer 27

The peoples

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Fort Sumter

Question 29

What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Answer 29

The capture of Fort Sumter

Question 30

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 30

a proposal that would ban slavery in any lands that the US acquired from Mexico, but never passed.