Chapter 18

Question 1

Popular Soveriegnty

Answer 1

The idea that the people of a territory should decide whether or not that territory will be a free territory or a slave territory.

Question 2

What state had a gold rush in 1848?

Answer 2

California

Question 3

Underground Railroad

Answer 3

An informal chain of “stations” through which scores of runaway slaves were taken by “conductors” who took them from the slave states North to Canada.

Question 4

Which three Senatorial Giants all passed away in the early 1850’s?

Answer 4

Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster

Question 5

Who wrote the compromise of 1850?

Answer 5

Henry Clay

Question 6

Which part of the compromise of 1850 infuriated Northerners?

Answer 6

Fugitive Slave Law

Question 7

Ostend Manifesto

Answer 7

A document urged the United States to offer Spain 120 million dollars for the purchase of Cuba. This angered Northerners because Cuba would have been eligible to become a slave state.

Question 8

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 8

This law proposed settling the issue of slavery in the territories by popular sovereignty.

Question 9

Which president had to die in order for Milliard Fillmore to become president?

Answer 9

Zachary Taylor

Question 10

Gadsden Purchase

Answer 10

A purchase made from Mexico that allowed for the construction of a railroad.