Sectionalism Test

Question 1

Who is John Brown?

Answer 1

Abolitionist, wanted to overthrow the slavery system, led attacks on slavery owners, he said he did his actions for God

Question 2

What is the armed resistance?

Answer 2

John Brown led the armed resistance in 1859 to steal weapons and bring them back to local slaves

Question 3

Who is Harriet Tubman?

Answer 3

Escaped slave who became a lead abolitionist, she helped other slaves escape on the underground railroad, after the war she spent the remainder of her life helping other slaves and elderly who did not have a lot of money

Question 4

Describe the Underground Railroad

Answer 4

Not actually underground, but a system of people who helped slaves escape to freedom, usually along borders of states, the slaves would stop at houses that there conductors or leaders knew were safe

Question 5

Who is William Loyd Garrison?

Answer 5

Helped lead a successful abolitionist campaign against slavery, started his own abolitionist paper called The Liberator

Question 6

What is the Liberator?

Answer 6

American abolitionist newspaper by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp

Question 7

Who is Frederick Douglas?

Answer 7

Famous social reformer, speaker, and statesman, wrote several autobiographies, slave of Colonel lloyd

Question 8

What are slave narratives?

Answer 8

Literary work of that different slaves wrote about their lives

Question 9

Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?

Answer 9

American abolitionist and writer, best known for her Novel of Uncle Tom’s cabin

Question 10

What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 10

The reason for Uncle Tom’s cabin was the Fugitive Act of 1850, which made helping runaway slaves escape illegal

Question 11

Who is Virginia Hill and what is Free Hill, Tennessee?

Answer 11

African American community established before the war for freed slaves

Question 12

WHo is Francis Wright and what is the Nashoba Commune

Answer 12

A community by Francis Wright to try and educate slaves

Question 13

And what is Elihu Embree’ s The Emancipator?

Answer 13

The Emancipator was written by Elihu Embree and was the first newspaper entirely devoted to the abolition of slavery

Question 14

What are the reasons for the and the impact of the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 14

Set of five bills passed by congress that ended the Mexican- American War
The laws consisted of California becoming a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories, slave trade in d.c. and fugitive slave act

Question 15

What was the role of Daniel Webster in the Compromise?

Answer 15

He delivered a speech in favor of the compromise

Question 16

What did John C. Calhoun do? What was the Fugitive Slave Law?

Answer 16

Served as congressman, senator, secretary of war, and vice president of the u.s
Calhoun helped debate the fugitive slave law which was a law passed to return slaves back to there owners if they escaped

Question 17

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act lead to the rise of the Republican Party?

Answer 17

The Democrats and Whigs were sharply divided over the slavery issue, and their power struggles cleared the way for the rise of a new political party

Question 18

What is the Sumner Brooks incident?

Answer 18

Representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner , an abolitionist, with a walking cane in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier in which he fiercely critized slaveholders

Question 19

Who is John Brown? Can you explain his raid on Harpers Ferry?

Answer 19

American abolitionist who believed in and advocated armed insurrection as the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.
an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt

Question 20

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 20

passed by the U.S congress

it allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide among themselves whether they wanted slavery in there borders

Question 21

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 21

series of violent confrontations over slavery in Kansas

Question 22

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Answer 22

• landmark decision by U.S. Supreme court on U.S. labor law and Constitional Law
• it said that a black family whether enslaved or free could not be American citizens and could not sue in court even if they were in free territories
• Dred Scott wanted to sue his lawyer was sandford

Question 23

Lincoln Douglas Debates

Answer 23

Stephn Douglas: demcratic party, in favor of slavery running for third term in senate, believed in popular sovreingty, founding fathers slave owners
Lincoln: republican, made books about debates, thought that slavery had to be protected since it was already here, thought douglas was in favor of something wrong, “all men are created equal”

Question 24

Compromise of 1850

Answer 24

five bills passed by congress

defused a four year political confrontation between slave and free states ( see five laws on notes)

Question 25

Daniel Webster

Answer 25

• delivered speech in favor of 1850 compromise, helped debate compromise
• did not like slave act