McEwen Chapter 15 Quiz

Question 1

Proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 1

Stephen Douglas

Question 2

His election caused the South to secede from the Union

Answer 2

Abraham Lincoln

Question 3

Concept that suggests that states should vote whether or not to allow slavery

Answer 3

Popular sovereignty

Question 4

Extreme abolitionist who raided Harper’s Ferry

Answer 4

John Brown

Question 5

Elected president in 1856

Answer 5

James Buchanan

Question 6

Anti-slavery book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 6

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 7

First state to secede from the Union

Answer 7

South Carolina

Question 8

Place where the first shots of the Civil War were fired

Answer 8

Fort Sumter

Question 9

Proposed the Compromise of 1850

Answer 9

Henry Clay

Question 10

President who was a Mexican American war hero

Answer 10

Zachary Taylor

Question 11

Political party formed to stop the spread of slavery

Answer 11

Free-soilers

Question 12

Court case that declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

Answer 12

Dred Scott case

Question 13

Why slave holders may not want to move to Kansas

Answer 13

Climate

Question 14

Sectional leader from the North

Answer 14

Daniel Webster

Question 15

Fugitive Slave Law designed to find a person guilty

Answer 15

Paid $10 if found guilty/paid $5 if found innocent

Question 16

Four parts of the Missouri Compromise

Answer 16

• slave trade banned in Washington, D.C..
• California was a free state
• stricter Fugitive Slave Law
• popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession

Question 17

President of the Confederacy

Answer 17

Jefferson Davis

Question 18

First capital of the Confederacy

Answer 18

Montgomery, Alabama

Question 19

Site of a federal armory where John Brown attempted to start a slave rebellion

Answer 19

Harper’s Ferry

Question 20

People who wanted to abolish slavery

Answer 20

Abolitionists

Question 21

Confederacy

Answer 21

Southern portion of the United States

Question 22

President who was considered a “Dark Horse” candidate

Answer 22

James Polk

Question 23

Second capital of the Confederacy

Answer 23

Richmond, Virginia

Question 24

Location of an unofficial civil war where John Brown murdered pro-slavery settlers

Answer 24

Bleeding Kansas

Question 25

First Republican president

Answer 25

Abraham Lincoln

Question 26

Proposal that attempted to ban slavery in the Mexican Cession

Answer 26

Wilmot Proviso