S.S 8.1-8.3 Key Terms

Question 1

A senator from Massachusetts who was a war hawk.

Answer 1

Henry Clay

Question 2

Clay’s plan to keep slave and free states equal.

Answer 2

Missouri Compromise

Question 3

The right of people to create their government.

Answer 3

popular soverenetry

Question 4

Was created to keep slavery out of the west.

Answer 4

Free-Soil party

Question 5

To remove from

Answer 5

secede

Question 6

A senator from South Carolina who also opposed Henry Clay’s compromise.

Answer 6

John C. Calhoun

Question 7

Africans who fled slavery.

Answer 7

Fugitives

Question 8

A war between people of the same country.

Answer 8

Civil War

Question 9

Stephen Douglass of Illinois guided Clay’s Missouri Compromise in to this.

Answer 9

The Compromise of 1850

Question 10

Required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves.

Answer 10

Fugitive slave Act of 1850

Question 11

An 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the evils of slavery.

Answer 11

Uncle Toms Cabin

Question 12

A law passed in 1846 that banned slavery in any lands won by the United States.

Answer 12

Wilmot Provisio

Question 13

A senator from Massachusetts who had opposed Clay’s compromise tariff in 1833.

Answer 13

Daniel Webster

Question 14

Stephen Douglass’ bill that decided the issue of slavery by popular soverentry.

Answer 14

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 15

Proslavery bands that rode across the border who fought antislavery forces.

Answer 15

Border Ruffians

Question 16

A legal case brought to settle a dispute between people or groups.

Answer 16

Lawsuits

Question 17

A court case that shocked most Americans who opposed slavery.

Answer 17

Dred Scott vs. Sanford

Question 18

The Whig Party created this in Michigan in 1854.

Answer 18

Republican Party

Question 19

A gun warehouse.

Answer 19

Arsenal

Question 20

Action against one’s country.

Answer 20

Treason

Question 21

A person who dies because of his or her beliefs.

Answer 21

Martyr

Question 22

A person who fights using hit and run tactics.

Answer 22

Guerrilla Warfare

Question 23

Can not be changed

Answer 23

Unnamendable

Question 24

The president of the confederacy during the Civil War.

Answer 24

Jefferson Davis

Question 25

Kentucky, Maryland, West Virginia, Missouri, and Delaware.

Answer 25

Border States

Question 26

Rule elected by the army.

Answer 26

Martial law

Question 27

The general of the confederacy.

Answer 27

Robert E. Lee