Creating America-Chapter 15

Question 1

Why try to keep the same number of free and slave states?

Answer 1

The government wanted to do this to try to keep the balance in Congress

Question 2

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 2

This let these states decide for themselves

Question 3

Popular sovereignty

Answer 3

Letting the states decide for themselves

Question 4

Compromise of 1850

Answer 4

A series of congressional laws intended to suck though the major disagreements between the free and slave states.

Question 5

The fugitive slave act

Answer 5

This act stated that the Northerners had to turn in the fugitive slave

Question 6

“Uncle Tom’s cabin “

Answer 6

A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to show how bad did slavery laws

Question 7

The Dred Scott decision

Answer 7

This stated that Dred Scott wasn’t protected under the Constitution

Question 8

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 8

Anti-slavery settlers who boycotted the government because 5000 Nazeri saddlers voted illegally. These anti-slavery people formed a government of their own

Question 9

Harper’ Ferry

Answer 9

A federal arsenal tried to be taken over by John Brown

Question 10

Linclon-Douglas Debates

Answer 10

Debates for president in the north between Lincoln and Douglas

Question 11

Platform

Answer 11

Beliefs of people in an election, what they thrive on, and how what they base their campaign on.

Question 12

The Republican Party

Answer 12

The Republican Party was a party formed by the Northern Whigs

Question 13

Election of 1860

Answer 13

The race for president in 1860. The candidates were Abraham Lincoln, John Breckenridge, John Bell, and Stephen Douglas

Question 14

Crittenden plan

Answer 14

A compromise introduced in 1861 that might have prevented secession

Question 15

Secession/secede

Answer 15

To break away from something

Question 16

The Confederate states of America

Answer 16

What the south called themselves after Seceding from the US

Question 17

John Brown

Answer 17

Extreme slavery abolitionist who killed five people in order to and slavery

Question 18

Dred Scott

Answer 18

Slave in Missouri, was taken to a territory where slavery was illegal, and she was denied rights in court

Question 19

Jefferson Davis

Answer 19

President of the Confederate states of America

Question 20

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 20

Strong against slavery in the north and didn’t want it to expand

Question 21

Stephen Douglas

Answer 21

Senator from Illinois who didn’t want the federal government to pass new laws on slavery

Question 22

John Bell

Answer 22

He didn’t want the federal government to pass new laws on slavery

Question 23

John Breckenridge

Answer 23

A candidate from the South who insisted that the federal government protect slavery in every territory.