unit 11 UNION IN CRISIS

Question 1

by when had the north gradually outlawed slavery

Answer 1

1840s

Question 2

manumission

Answer 2

slaves would individually release slaves

Question 3

goal of american colonization society

Answer 3

goal was to encourage migration of free blacks to Africa

Question 4

“the liberator”

Answer 4

william lloyd garrison

Question 5

what did garrison do?

Answer 5

convinced people slavery was morally wrong

moral suasion

Question 6

moral suasuion

Answer 6

convincing people slavery was against morals

Question 7

election of 1848 canidates

Answer 7

democrat - Lewis Cass
whigs - Zachary Taylor
Free Soil Party - Martin Van Buren

Question 8

nickname for henry clay

Answer 8

“great pacifier”

Question 9

clay’s compromise of 1850 parts

Answer 9

congress would admit CA as a free state

NM and Utah would decide slavery by popular sovereignty

the slave trade would be banned in DC

Congress would pass a strict fugitive slave law

texas would give up its claims to NM in return to $10 million

Question 10

popular sovereignty

Answer 10

the people decide for themselves about slavery - vote

Question 11

where was daniel webster from and what did he urge people to do with the Compromise of 1850

Answer 11

north

urged people to agree to compromise

Question 12

where was calhoun from and what did he urge people to do with The Compromise of 1850?

Answer 12

south

urged the north to listen to the south or the south would secede

Question 13

what did presiden taylor threaten to do with the compromise of 1850?

Answer 13

veto it

Question 14

information on stephen douglas

Answer 14

takes over for clay
“little giant”
competed with Lincoln for senator of Illanois

Question 15

who passed the compromise of 1850

Answer 15

Millard Filmore

Question 16

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 16

law that required all citizens to aid in apprehending fugitive runaway slaves

Question 17

most famous conductor of Underground Railroad

Answer 17

Harriet Tubman

Question 18

nickname for tubman

Answer 18

Harriet Tubman

Question 19

henry “box” brown

Answer 19

black man who mailed himself from VA to PA

Question 20

“Christina Riots”

Answer 20

African Americans gathered and armed to protect fugitives from a MD master who sent an officer to get them
occurred in PA
No whites stepped in
began to occur around the country

Question 21

who wrote uncle tom’s cabin

Answer 21

harriot beecher stowe

Question 22

election of 1852 and winner

Answer 22

democrats - franklin pierce WINNER

whigs - winfield scott

Question 23

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 23

proposed by senator stephen douglas
law that divided nebraska and kansas giving popular sovereignty
repealed missouri compromise
led to bleeding Kansas

Question 24

Bleeding kansas

Answer 24

abolitionists and pro-slavery flooded kansas to try gain majority

led to violence

Question 25

john brown

Answer 25

violent abolitionist in bleeding kansas

Question 26

what party did the republicans come from

Answer 26

free soil party

Question 27

explain beecher's Bibles

Answer 27

brother of Harriet beecher stowe minister sent guns to bleeding kansas in caskets to support antislavery forces

Question 28

real name of know-nothing party

Answer 28

American Party

Question 29

what did the american party support

Answer 29

totally against immigrants

Question 30

border ruffians

Answer 30

pro slavery residents in Missouri | very violent

Question 31

who beat summer with a cane

Answer 31

brooks (SC)

Question 32

who did summer attack in his speech "crime against kansas"

Answer 32

andrew butler

Question 33

canidates in election of 1856`and winner

Answer 33

dem - james buchanan WINNER rep - john fremont american - millard filmore

Question 34

why did the whigs end

Answer 34

the party could not agree on the slavery issue

Question 35

what was the republicans/fremonts campaign in the 1856 election?

Answer 35

free soil, free labor, free men, fremont!!

Question 36

who was the chief justice in Dred Scott v Stanford

Answer 36

roger taney

Question 37

decision in dred scott v stanford

Answer 37

scott was property = had no right to sue

Question 38

lincoln nickname

Answer 38

honest abe

Question 39

john brown

Answer 39

violent abolitonist | saw himself as an Angel of God sent to end slavery

Question 40

what did john brown seize in his raise

Answer 40

harper's ferry

Question 41

canidates in 1860 election

Answer 41

lincoln douglas bell beckinridge

Question 42

lincoln in 1860 election

Answer 42

republican illinois antislavery but modest WINNER

Question 43

douglas in 1860 election

Answer 43

northern democrat illinois full support for popular sovereinty

Question 44

john bell in 1860 election

Answer 44

constitutional unionist Tennessee the federal government should support slavery and defend the Union

Question 45

john beckinride in 1860 election

Answer 45

southern democrat kentucky the federal governmetn must protect slavery

Question 46

whst made up the constutional unionist party

Answer 46

whigs + know-nothings

Question 47

why did SC secede?

Answer 47

lincoln was elected without any support from the south not a single vote

Question 48

who was the first state to secede

Answer 48

south carolina

Question 49

crittenden compromise

Answer 49

proposed by john crittenden constitutional ammendemtn allowing slavery in wetsern territories south of missouri compromise line federal government would reimburse slave holders for unreturned fugitives

Question 50

name of seceded southern states

Answer 50

Confederate States of America

Question 51

first president of the confederacy

Answer 51

Jefferson Davis

Question 52

Fort Sumter

Answer 52

union fort in SC lincoln set food, not arms = daring confederates to attack south attacked = lincoln declared wa even though he wanted to compromise without bloodshed location of first battle of Civil War

Question 53

what happened during taylor's presidency?

Answer 53

compromise of 1850

Question 54

what happened during filmore's presidency?

Answer 54

weak and dud big supporter of fugitive slave act passed compromise of 1850

Question 55

what happened during franklin pierce's presidency?

Answer 55

railroad | kansas-nebraska act

Question 56

where did stephen douglas want the transcontinental railroad to go?

Answer 56

chicago to LA

Question 57

what happened during Buchanan's presidency?

Answer 57

dred scott decision

Question 58

how did lincoln rewrite the role as commander in chief

Answer 58

did not ask congress for permission war powers notion susped write of habeaus corpus called up the militia organized a blockade wrote the emancipation proclamation

Question 59

who did lincoln face and defeat in the election of 1864

Answer 59

george mccellan

Question 60

who and where was lincolns assassination

Answer 60

john wilkes booth ford's theater

Question 61

union color

Answer 61

blue

Question 62

confederate color

Answer 62

grey

Question 63

ulysses S. Grant

Answer 63

"butcher" very willing to sacrifice men in order to wear down the opposing army best northern general