Chapter Ten American History

Question 1

Great Compromiser

Answer 1

Henry Clay

Question 2

Slave who sued for his freedom

Answer 2

Dred Scott

Question 3

Led the raid at Harper’s Ferry

Answer 3

John Brown

Question 4

Wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

Answer 4

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 5

Candidate for President for the Know Nothing Party

Answer 5

Millard Fillmore

Question 6

Elected President in 1856

Answer 6

James Buchanon

Question 7

Elected President in 1860

Answer 7

Abraham Lincoln

Question 8

Senator who was beaten up in the Senate chambers

Answer 8

Sen. Charles Sumner

Question 9

Conductor of the Underground Railroad

Answer 9

Harriet Tubman

Question 10

Freeport Doctrine

Answer 10

Stephen Douglas

Question 11

President of the Confederacy

Answer 11

Jefferson Davis

Question 12

Wrote the Compromise of 1850

Answer 12

Henry Clay

Question 13

Presidential candidate for the Constitutional Union Party

Answer 13

John Bell

Question 14

Led the Pottawatomie Massacre

Answer 14

John Brown

Question 15

His court case nullified the MO Compromise

Answer 15

Dred Scott

Question 16

Proposed the Kansas Nebraska Act

Answer 16

Stephen Douglas

Question 17

Little Giant

Answer 17

Stephen Douglas

Question 18

Honest Abe

Answer 18

Abraham Lincoln

Question 19

Senator from Massachusetts who led the support of Clay’s idea

Answer 19

Daniel Webster

Question 20

Chief Justice who handed down the decision in the Dred Scott case

Answer 20

Chief Justice Taney

Question 21

President who supported the Compromise of 1850

Answer 21

Millard Fillmore

Question 22

Lost the Senate election in Illinois to Douglas

Answer 22

Abraham Lincoln

Question 23

He beat up a Senator over the issue of slavery and the fact that he was protecting his cousin’s good name

Answer 23

Rep. Preston Brooks

Question 24

His idea was called popular sovereignty

Answer 24

Lewis Cass

Question 25

Was elected President in 1848

Answer 25

General Zachary Taylor

Question 26

Three senators the Great Debate was between

Answer 26

1. Henry Clay 2. Daniel Webster 3. John Calhoun

Question 27

Captured John Brown at Harper's Ferry

Answer 27

Robert E. Lee

Question 28

His presidency led to the secession of the Southern States

Answer 28

Abraham Lincoln

Question 29

What is the name given to the discussion about slavery, slave trade and the fugitive slave laws?

Answer 29

Great Debate

Question 30

What was the series of resolutions that countered the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 30

Calhoun Resolution

Question 31

What was the name of the anti slavery book written that made the average Northerners aware of the problems with slavery?

Answer 31

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 32

What was the nickname that was given to Kansas because of all the violence?

Answer 32

Bleeding Kansas

Question 33

What was the court case that declared the slaves were property?

Answer 33

Dred Scott Decision

Question 34

What was the Douglas idea that popular sovereignty could exist but voters could make local laws to prohibit it?

Answer 34

Freeport Doctrine

Question 35

What were the proposed amendments to the Constitution that would guarantee slavery would remain where it already was and reinstate the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 35

Crittenden's Compromise

Question 36

What is to withdraw from the Union?

Answer 36

secede

Question 37

What were the states that allowed slavery but remained loyal to the Union?

Answer 37

border states

Question 38

What was the amendment to a bill that would have banned slavery in all land acquired from Mexico?

Answer 38

Wilmot Proviso

Question 39

What is the idea that people should decide for themselves if they want to allow slavery?

Answer 39

popular sovereignty

Question 40

What made it a federal crime to assist runaway slaves and authorized the arrest of escaped slaves in free states?

Answer 40

Fugitive Slave Laws

Question 41

What was the informal well organized system to help slaves escape to freedom?

Answer 41

Underground Railroad

Question 42

What was the idea to build a railroad to connect east and west?

Answer 42

Transcontinental Railroad

Question 43

What term applies to Missourians who where pro-slavery?

Answer 43

border ruffians

Question 44

What was the political party formed that was anti Catholic and anti immigration?

Answer 44

Know Nothing Party

Question 45

What was the pro-slavery constitution that was proposed that tried to get Kansas admitted as a slave state?

Answer 45

LeCompton Constitution

Question 46

What were the four political parties that had candidates in the election of 1860?

Answer 46

1. Northern Democrats 2. Southern Democrats 3. Republicans 4. Constitutional Union Party

Question 47

What was the name given to the Southern states after they seceded from the Union?

Answer 47

Confederate States of America

Question 48

What was passed by the states that nullified the US Constitution?

Answer 48

Ordinance of Secession

Question 49

What are the four border states?

Answer 49

1. Kentucky 2. Delaware 3. Missouri 4. Maryland

Question 50

What are the provisions of the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 50

1. California would be admitted as a free state 2. Popular sovereignty would solve slavery issue in New Mexico and Utah Territories 3. settle Texas and New Mexico border dispute 4. abolished slave trade in District of Columbia, NOT slavery 5. federal enforcement of Fugitive Slave Laws