Towards Civil War

Question 1

James Buchanan

Answer 1

Democrat candidate in 1856

Question 2

Civil War

Answer 2

fighting between citizens of the same country

Question 3

John C. Fremont

Answer 3

Republican candidate in 1856

Question 4

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 4

Where the people are the authority

Question 5

Sectionalism

Answer 5

Time period before Civil war where North and South were divided over slavery

Question 6

Franklin Pierce

Answer 6

14th president
signed the Kansas Nebraska Act and enforced the fugitive slave act

Question 7

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 7

A ban on slavery in any lands gotten from Mexico

Question 8

John Brown

Answer 8

abolitionist who led an attack on a pro slavery group

Question 9

Compromise of 1850

Answer 9

Five separate laws
1)
Stronger Fugitive Slave Law
2. California to be a free state
3. Other new territories could have slavery
4. Okay to have slaves in Washington, D.C.
5. However, no slave trade in Washington, D.C.

Question 10

Fugitive

Answer 10

person who runs away from the law

Question 11

Arsenal

Answer 11

a place to store weapons

Question 11

Jefferson Davis

Answer 11

President of the Confederate States of America

Question 12

Free Soil Party

Answer 12

Against slavery

Question 13

Fugitive Slave Law

Answer 13

All states would have to return runaway slaves

Question 14

Sectional Spokespeople

Answer 14

Webster- East, Clay- West, Calhoun- South

Question 15

Missouri Compromise reversed by

Answer 15

Kansas Nebraska Act

Question 16

result of Kansas Nebraska Act

Answer 16

Kansas ended up with two governments, major fighting between pro and anti slavery groups- Bleeding Kansas

Question 17

Dred Scot decision

Answer 17

Scott was not a free man even though he lived in a free area, he was not a citizen , slavery was protected by Constitution

Question 18

John Brown’s raid goal

Answer 18

Brown hoped to arm enslaved Africans

Question 19

Identify the response of the southerners states upon Lincoln’s election victory in 1860

Answer 19

They seceded and formed the Confederate States of America

Question 20

Identify parts of the Missouri Compromise

Answer 20

Admitted Missouri as a slave state, and Maine as a free state, and abolished slavery for any area north of 36 degrees latitude

Question 21

Identify the parts of the Compromise of 1850

Answer 21

Five separate laws
1)
Stronger Fugitive Slave Law
2. California to be a free state
3. Other new territories could have slavery
4. Okay to have slaves in Washington, D.C.
5. However, no slave trade in Washington, D.C.

Question 22

What principle was applied with the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 22

Popular sovereignty

Question 23

Explain why the Free Soil political party formed

Answer 23

They wanted to ban slavery in new territories

Question 24

Explain the result of Uncle Tom’s Cabin on northern thinking about slavery

Question 25

Explain why northerners did not like the Dredd Scott decision

Answer 25

Bc it said the Missouri Compromise and popular sovereignty were not allowed and said congress nor voters could ban slavery

Question 26

Identify who the border states were and why they played a role in the Fort Sumter situation

Answer 26

Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland