Chpt. 15 vocab

Question 1

political authority belongs to the people

Answer 1

POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY

Question 2

devotion to the interest of geographic region

Answer 2

Sectionalism

Question 3

Formed by ani-slavery northerners

Answer 3

Free soil party

Question 4

California enters as a free state, rest decide for themselves

Answer 4

Compromise of 1850

Question 5

made it a crime to help runaway slaves; and required to return to owners

Answer 5

Fugitive slave act

Question 6

Anti slavery novel

Answer 6

Uncle toms cabin

Question 7

author of Uncle tom’s cabin

Answer 7

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 8

14th president of the US

Answer 8

Franklin Pierce

Question 9

Allowed voters in kansas and nebraska to decide about slavery

Answer 9

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 10

Murder of probed slavery people in kansas

Answer 10

POTTAWATOMIE MASSACRE

Question 11

political party against the spread of slavery

Answer 11

Republica party

Question 12

slaved whos court case declared african american-americans were not citizens of the US

Answer 12

Dred Scott

Question 13

the president during the civil war

Answer 13

Abraham LIncoln

Question 14

1858 senate debate over slavery

Answer 14

LIncoln-Douglas debates

Question 15

took arsenal and harpers ferry, virgina

Answer 15

John Brows raid

Question 16

withdraw from the union

Answer 16

Secession

Question 17

nation formed by the southern states

Answer 17

Csa

Question 18

president of the confederacy

Answer 18

Jefferson Davis

Question 19

15th president

Answer 19

James Bucantate