Chapter 16 Study Guide

Question 1

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 1

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

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

The Fugitive Slave Act

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 The Fugitive Slave Act do?

Answer 6

It caused more anger in the North

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 people decide for themselves about an issue

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Kansas

Question 10

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

Answer 10

John Brown

Question 11

What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?

Answer 11

Senator Charles Sumner lashed out against those for slavery, including Andrew P. Butler

Question 12

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

Answer 12

The Republican Party

Question 13

Who did Dred Scott sue?

Answer 13

His owner, Sandford

Question 14

What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?

Answer 14

It divided the nation more

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Roger B. Taney

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Protected slavery

Question 17

What Senate race became the center of national attention?

Answer 17

Lincoln-Douglas Dabates

Question 18

What party was each candidate a part of?

Answer 18

R-Abraham Lincoln

D-Stephen A. Douglas

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Slavery

Question 20

Who won the Illinois Senate race?

Answer 20

Douglas (narrow victory)

Question 21

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

Answer 21

The Raid on Harpers Ferry

Question 22

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

Answer 22

A rebellion against slaveholders by arming slaves

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Brown’s death

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

The Confederate States of America

Question 26

How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?

Answer 26

With the belief in states’ rights

Question 27

Who was the first President of the CSA?

Answer 27

Jefferson Davis

Question 28

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

Answer 28

The people’s hands, not his

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Fort Sumter

Question 30

What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Answer 30

The Fort Sumter attack