Civil War Questions Day 2

Question 1

What major discovery happened in 1848?

Answer 1

Gold discovered in California

Question 2

What scheme did Southerners concoct to gain Cuba in the 1850s?

Answer 2

Ostend Manifesto

Question 3

What court case ruled slaves were not free even in the North?

Answer 3

Missouri’s Dred Scott v. Sanford

Question 4

How many Chinese landed in the US from 1849 to 1852?

Answer 4

25,000

Question 5

What other country also discovered gold during this time period?

Answer 5

Canada

Question 6

Who was the American that sailed into Tokyo in 1854?

Answer 6

Commodore Matthew Perry

Question 7

What country did America strive to open trade with in the 1850s?

Answer 7

Japan

Question 8

Who led the American warships to Japan to negotiate a trade treaty?

Answer 8

Matthew Perry

Question 9

What major issue came with acquiring these new states from the Mexican War?

Answer 9

The status of slavery on those new lands and slavery was pushed to the front of the political sphere.

Question 10

What was the proposal to solve the slavery question with America’s newly gained territory?

Answer 10

Wilmot Proviso

Question 11

Were the Northerners for or against the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 11

For

Question 12

Were the Southerners for or against the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 12

Against

Question 13

What is the idea that people in a territory should decide if it is free or slave?

Answer 13

Popular Sovereignty

Question 14

What party was organized in 1848 that opposed the expansion of slavery?

Answer 14

Free Soil Party

Question 15

Who did the Free Soil Party nominate in the 1848 election?

Answer 15

Martin Van Buren

Question 16

Who was Van Buren’s running mate in the 1848 election?

Answer 16

Charles F. Adams

Question 17

Who did the Democrats nominate in the 1848 election?

Answer 17

Lewis Cass

Question 18

What is “popular sovereignty”?

Answer 18

The principle is that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political power. For example, it included the idea that the people of federal territories could decide if they would allow slavery or not.

Question 18

Who was the Whig candidate in the 1848 election?

Answer 18

Zachary Taylor

Question 19

Which candidate won the 1848 election?

Answer 19

Zachary Taylor

Question 20

Where was the slave trade prohibited as part of the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 20

Washington D.C.

Question 20

Who tried to take over Nicaragua and get it annexed as a slave state?

Answer 20

William Walker

Question 21

Where did many free blacks run to after the passage of the new Fugitive Slave Act?

Answer 21

Canada, using the Underground Railroad

Question 22

What was the most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850s?

Answer 22

Fugitive Slave Act

Question 23

What state became a free state because of the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 23

California

Question 24

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act allow?

Answer 24

Popular Sovereignty

Question 25

Who came up with the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Answer 25

Stephen Douglas

Question 26

What did Stephen Douglas get in return for opening the Kansas and Nebraska territories to slavery?

Answer 26

Southern support but northern distrust and the Transcontinental Railroad

Question 26

What became a major federal law in 1854 that caused a lot of issues?

Answer 26

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 27

What political party collapsed after 1852?

Answer 27

The Whig Party

Question 28

What fraudulent election was approved by President Buchanan in Kansas, but eventually overturned?

Answer 28

The Lecompton Constitution

Question 29

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 29

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 29

What is nativism?

Answer 29

The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants

Question 30

What was the main platform of the Know-Nothing party?

Answer 30

Nativism

Question 31

Which religion did the Know-Nothings particularly hate?

Answer 31

Catholics

Question 32

The Republican Party was a coalition of what 4 groups?

Answer 32

Northern Whigs, Free Soilers, Know-Nothings, and Liberty Party

Question 33

What state was William Seward from?

Answer 33

New York

Question 33

What state had a small Civil War in 1856?

Answer 33

Kansas

Question 34

How many people died during Bleeding Kansas?

Answer 34

55 confirmed deaths

Question 34

Where was Preston Brooks from?

Answer 34

South Carolina

Question 35

Where was Charles Sumner from?

Answer 35

Massachusetts

Question 36

What happened between Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner?

Answer 36

Brooks (pro-slavery) brutally attacked Sumner (anti-slavery) with a cane until he was unconscious after Sumner's 1856 speech denouncing slavery

Question 37

Where was James Buchanan when all of the issues about slavery were happening?

Answer 37

Great Britain

Question 37

Who did the Know-Nothings nominate in 1856?

Answer 37

Millard Fillmore

Question 38

Who was president when James Buchanan was born?

Answer 38

George Washington

Question 39

James Buchanan was Secretary of State for what president?

Answer 39

James K. Polk

Question 40

What was the name of Dred Scott’s owner?

Answer 40

Dr. John Emerson

Question 41

Who was the Chief Justice in the Dred Scott decision?

Answer 41

Roger B. Taney

Question 42

What did the Dred Scott decision declare about the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 42

It was unconstitutional

Question 43

What is the name of the pro-slavery constitution of Kansas?

Answer 43

The Lecompton Constitution

Question 44

Did Lincoln feel that blacks should have equal rights and be able to vote before becoming president?

Answer 44

Lincoln didn't support the rights

Question 45

How many men did John Brown’s group murder in the 1856 Pottawatomie Massacre?

Answer 45

5

Question 45

What abolitionist raided the weapons arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859?

Answer 45

John Brown

Question 46

What state was Abraham Lincoln from?

Answer 46

Kentucky

Question 47

What was the name of Stephen Douglas’ idea that if slavery was not protected, that it would wither away?

Answer 47

Freeport Doctrine

Question 48

What was John Brown tried and put to death for?

Answer 48

Treason, murder, and insurrection, and his role in the raid on Harper's Ferry

Question 49

What is the name of the offer to buy Cuba from Spain?

Answer 49

Ostend Manifesto