Pre-Civil War Quiz

Question 1

What s the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 1

A proposal to outlaw slavery in any territory of the United States.
IT NEVER BECAME LAW.
Slavery could no longer be ignored.

Question 2

What is the Free Soil Party?

Answer 2

A political party dedicatd to stopping the expansion of slavery in the territories.

Question 3

What famous person was a member of the Free Soil Party?

Answer 3

Abraham Lincoln

Question 4

What was the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 4

1. NORTH - California became a free state
2. Washington DC abolishes slavery
3. SOUTH - Congress would not outlaw slavery in the territories
4. Formation of the Fugitive Slave Act

Question 5

What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

Answer 5

A law helpng slaveholders recapture runaway slaves.

People could be held without an arrest warrent and right to jury trial for slaves.

Question 6

What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 6

1. A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
2. It portrays slavery as brutal and immoral.
3. It heightened the conflict between slave states and free states.

Question 7

What is Popular Sovereignty?

Answer 7

A system where the residents can vote to decide an issue.

In this instance whether to become a slave state or free state.

Question 8

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Answer 8

It created two states from the Nebraska territory – Kansas and Nebraska.
Each state could choose whether to be free or slave state - Popular Sovereignty.

Question 9

Who was John Brown?

Answer 9

1. Extreme abolitionist.
2. Killed 7 border ruffians (Missouri slaveholders) in Pottawatomie Massacre
3. Tried to have a slave revolt at Harper’s Ferry

Question 10

What is Bleeding Kansas?

Answer 10

Name for the violence occurring in the Kansas territory.

Question 11

Who was Preston Brooks?

Answer 11

A man who attacked Senator Charles Sumner in the Senate with a cane. Brooks hits Sumner with a cane over 30 times till it broke.
Sumner was an aboiltionist
Brooks was pro-slavery

Question 12

Who was James Buchanan?

Answer 12

1. Democratic President from the state of Pennsylvania
2. Elected in 1856
3. 15th President

Question 13

What affect did James Buchanan have on slavery?

Answer 13

He did nothng with slavery.

He remained neutral.

Question 15

What was Dred Scott v. Sanford?

Answer 15

Supreme Court decision that said Congress could not ban slavery in the territories and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

Question 16

What is the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 16

Legislation that admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance between North and South in the Senate.

Question 17

What is Harper’s Ferry?

Answer 17

A town with US weapons aresenal.

John Brown raids it to start slave revolt.

Question 18

Define platform.

Answer 18

Statement of beliefs a political party uses when campaigning

Question 19

Who was Abraham Lincoln?

Answer 19

1. 16th President, from Illinois
2. Free-Soilist
3. Elected in 1860

Question 20

What does the election of Abraham Lincoln cause?

Answer 20

South Carolina leaves the union December 20, 1860

Question 21

What is the Confederate States of America?

Answer 21

Formation of new country from seven states that seceded from the Union
Occurred February 1861 in Mongomery, Alabama

Question 22

Where and when did the Civil War start?

Answer 22

Fort Sumter

April 12, 1861