soc studies chapter 15-17

Question 2

pull factors of immigration (why they wanted to come here) 3 answers

Answer 2

jobs, freedom, land

Question 3

push factors of immigration 3 answers

Answer 3

starvation, poverty, lack of political freedom

Question 4

story that provides a moral lesson

Answer 4

folktale

Question 5

christian songs sang by slaves

Answer 5

spirituals

Question 6

end to slavery

Answer 6

abolition

Question 7

network of people who helped slaves escape

Answer 7

underground railroad

Question 8

favoring a sections interests over the country

Answer 8

sectionalism

Question 9

to outlaw slavery in territories won from the Mexican war

Answer 9

wilmot proviso

Question 10

formally withdraw

Answer 10

secede

Question 11

made california a free state

Answer 11

compromise of 1850

Question 12

made it a federal crime to help slaves

Answer 12

fugitive slave act

Question 13

political party formed in 1854 to oppose the spread of slavery in the west

Answer 13

republican party

Question 14

political party formed by anti-slavery northerners before the election of 1848

Answer 14

free soil party

Question 15

act proposed by Stephen douglas

Answer 15

kansas-nebraska act

Question 16

John brown and his men killed pro slavery settlers in texas

Answer 16

Pottawatomie massacre

Question 17

recognized only the constitution as enforcement of the law

Answer 17

constitutional union party

Question 18

allowed voters to decide if they wanted slavery

Answer 18

popular sovereignty

Question 19

how much was the fine for helping slaves?

Answer 19

$1,000

Question 20

if a judge set a slave free, how much money did they get for that case?

Answer 20

$5

Question 21

if a judge sent a slave back to their owner, how much money did they get for that case?

Answer 21

$10

Question 22

who led a raid at harper’s ferry virginia

Answer 22

John brown

Question 23

who was an illinois senator that ran as a Democrat in the election of 1800

Answer 23

Stephen douglas

Question 24

who was a Democrat in the election of 1860

Answer 24

John breckenridge

Question 25

who wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”?

Answer 25

harriet Beecher stowe

Question 26

who was the slave that tried to sue for his freedom

Answer 26

dred scott

Question 27

who wanted a law that banned slavery in states won from the Mexican war

Answer 27

David wilmot

Question 28

who was a military leader who put an end to brown’s raid

Answer 28

Robert e. lee

Question 29

who was the president of the confederacy

Answer 29

Jefferson davis

Question 30

what was the confederacy

Answer 30

the 7 states that broke away from the us and formed their own country

Question 31

who was the supreme court chief justice

Answer 31

Roger taney

Question 32

who was a free soil candidate in the election of 1848

Answer 32

martin van buren

Question 33

who led a slave revolt

Answer 33

nat turner

Question 34

who was a former slave who fought for african American rights

Answer 34

Frederick douglass

Question 35

who was the leader of the underground railroad

Answer 35

harriet tubman

Question 36

what were the 7 confederate states

Answer 36

Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, South Carolina

Question 37

who was the 12th president

Answer 37

Zachary taylor

Question 38

who was the 13th president

Answer 38

Millard filmore

Question 39

who was the 14th president

Answer 39

Franklin pierce

Question 40

who was the 15th president

Answer 40

James buchanan

Question 41

who was the 16th president

Answer 41

abraham lincoln

Question 42

how many African americans were shipped across the Atlantic as slaves

Answer 42

12 million

Question 43

who published an anti-slavery newspaper called “The Liberator”

Answer 43

William Lloyd garrison

Question 44

what was Kansas nicknamed?

Answer 44

“bleeding Kansas”

Question 45

what was the original capital of the confederacy

Answer 45

Montgomery, alabama

Question 46

what is Harriet tubman’s nickname

Answer 46

“Moses”