Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 Vocab.

Question 1

The idea that political power belongs to the people

Answer 1

Popular Sovereignty

Question 2

Document stating “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territory.”

Answer 2

Wilmot Proviso

Question 3

favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country

Answer 3

Sectionalism

Question 4

antislavery northerners

Answer 4

Free-Soil Party

Question 5

formally withdraw

Answer 5

Secede

Question 6

allowed California to enter the Union as a free state. The rest of the Mexican cession was divided into 2 territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty.

Answer 6

Compromise of 1850

Question 7

made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas.

Answer 7

Fugitive Slave Act

Question 8

little-known politician from New Hampshire, promised to honor Compromise of 1850. Became president in 1852

Answer 8

Franklin Pierce

Question 9

introduced Kansas-Nebraska Act. Supported idea of building railroads to Pacific ocean. Proslavery.

Answer 9

Stephen Douglas

Question 10

plan that divided remainder of Louisiana Purchase into two territories- Kansas and Nebraska- and allowed people in each territory to decide on the question of slavery.

Answer 10

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 11

abolitionist from New England led the Pottawatomie Massacre.

Answer 11

John Brown

Question 12

In 1856, 800 men rode to Lawrence to arrest antislavery leaders that had already fled. The men took out their anger and set fires/looted buildings. One man died from the attack.

Answer 12

Sack of Lawrence

Question 13

May 24, 1856, John Brown and his men killed five proslavery men in Kansas.

Answer 13

Pottawatomie Massacre

Question 14

political party against the spread of slavery in the west.

Answer 14

Republican Party

Question 15

was Polk’s secretary of state. Became president in 1850.

Answer 15

James Buchanan

Question 16

Illinois lawyer. Became president in 1860. Challenged Douglas for Senate in 1858. Antislavery.

Answer 16

Abraham Lincoln

Question 17

Lincoln challenged Douglas fro representative of Illinois in the U.S. Senate.

Answer 17

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Question 18

Where he and his men took over arsenal in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion.

Answer 18

John Brown’s Raid

Question 19

Southern Democratic presidential candidate in 1860

Answer 19

John C. Breckinridge

Question 20

recognized “no political principles other than the Constitution of the country, the Union of the states, and the enforcement of the laws.”

Answer 20

Constitutional Union Party

Question 21

Constitutional Union presidential candidate in 1860.

Answer 21

John Ball (Bell?)

Question 22

included Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. They seceded from the U.S.

Answer 22

Confederate States of America

Question 23

Elected as president of the Confederacy.

Answer 23

Jefferson Davis