Chapter 16 Vocabulary

Question 1

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 1

A refusal to a proposal to prohib`it slavery

Question 2

Fugitive

Answer 2

A runaway slave

Question 3

Compromise of 1850

Answer 3

California was admitted to the union as a free state

Question 4

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 4

The law passed as part of the compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers

Question 5

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 5

Allowed citizens of Kansas and Nebraska to decide locally whether or not to allow slavery

Question 6

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 6

The principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives

Question 7

Secede

Answer 7

Withdraw formally from the membership of a federal union

Question 8

Border Ruffian

Answer 8

Name applied to pro-slavery activists from the slave state of Missouri, who crossed the state border into Kansas Territory to force the acceptance of slavery there.

Question 9

Civil War

Answer 9

A war between citizens of the same country

Question 10

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Answer 10

A series of seven debates between the Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln

Question 11

Arsenal

Answer 11

1. A collection of weapons and military equipment stored by a country, person, or group.
2. A place where weapons and military equipment are stored or made.

Question 12

John Brown’s Raid

Answer 12

An effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt

Question 13

Martyr

Answer 13

A person who dies for a cause

Question 14

States’ Rights

Answer 14

The rights and powers held by individual U.S. states rather than by the Federal Government.