Chapter 16-Toward Civil War

Question 1

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 1

Representatives David Wilmot of Pennsylvania introduced a proposal that would ban slavery in any lands that the US acquired from Mexico, but it never passed and only grew tension

Question 2

Who won the Election of 1848?

Answer 2

Zachary Taylor-12th President

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 1850-5 bills were passed to make up the plan that expanded upon the Missouri Compromise because of the added states since that time hoped to be the final stance on slavery in the US

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 this act do?

Answer 6

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

Introduced by Stephen A Douglas

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

Started in May 1856, slavery supporters attack Lawrence(the capital)

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 of Massachusetts lashed out against those for slavery, including Andrew P Butler from South Carolina. Butler’s cousin, Representative Preston Brooks, walked into the Senate chamber and hit Sumner with a cane, leaving him unconscious and bleeding.

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

Dred Scott, a skave, vs his owner

Question 14

What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?

Answer 14

Divided the nation even more

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Chief Justice Rodger P Taney ruled Scott was still a slave. Basically stating that the Constitution protected slavery

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

The Senate Race in Illinois with R-Abraham Lincoln vs D-Stephen A Douglas

Question 18

What party was each candidate a part of?

Answer 18

Republican- Abraham Lincoln

Democrat-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

Stephen A Douglas won a narrow victory

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Raid on Harper’s Ferry

Question 22

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

Answer 22

He hoped to start a rebellion against slaveholders by aiding slaves

Question 23

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

Answer 23

John Brown was executed of treason and his death became a rallying point for abolitionists

Question 24

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

Answer 24

South Carolina~December 20, 1860

Question 25

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

Answer 25

The Confederate States of America(CSA)

The Confederacy

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- Massachusetts Senator

Question 28

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

Answer 28

The possibility of was was in 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

Fort Sumter marked the beginning of the Civil War