US History Chapter 8 Note Quiz

Question 1

In August 1846 what representative proposed an addition to a war appropriations bill?

Answer 1

David Wilmont

Question 2

What amendment proposed that any territory the United States gained from Mexico would not permit slavery?

Answer 2

Wilmont Proviso

Question 3

Who prepared a series of revolutions to counter the Wilmont Proviso, but it never came to a vote?

Answer 3

John C. Calhoun

Question 4

Which senator from Michigan proposed popular sovereignty?

Answer 4

Lewis Cass

Question 5

With the 1848 election approaching the Whigs chose whom to run for president?

Answer 5

Zachary Taylor

Question 6

What were the two types of Northern Whigs?

Answer 6

Conscience Whigs, and Cotton Whigs

Question 7

The free-soil party was made of what groups?

Answer 7

Antislavery Democrats, Conscience Whigs, members of Liberty Party

Question 8

Who won the 1848 election?

Answer 8

Zachary Taylor

Question 9

What state applied for statehood as a “free state”? in 1849

Answer 9

California

Question 10

Who tried to find a compromise that would enable California to join the Union?

Answer 10

Henry Clay

Question 11

How many resolutions did Henry Clay offer for California?

Answer 11

Eight

Question 12

Who wrote a response saying that Clay’s compromise would not save the union?

Answer 12

John C. Calhoun

Question 13

Who succeeded president Taylor after he died?

Answer 13

Vice President Millard Fillmore

Question 14

What compromise broke down the orignal compromise and ended up getting all parts passed?

Answer 14

Compromise of 1850

Question 15

Under what act did a person claiming that an African American had escaped from slacery had only to point out that person as a runaway to take him or her into custody?

Answer 15

Fugitive Slave Act

Question 16

Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?

Answer 16

Harriet Tubman

Question 17

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 17

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 18

The opening of Oregon and the admission of California to the Union had convinced Americans that a what should be built?

Answer 18

Transcontinental Railroad

Question 19

In 1853 Mexico accepted $10 million for the what purchase, that would allow the railroad to apss through Northern Mexico?

Answer 19

Gadsen Purchase

Question 20

Douglas proposed that he would undo the what?

Answer 20

Missouri Compromise

Question 21

Despite Douglas’ proposition what act was passed?

Answer 21

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 22

What senator delivered a speech accusing pro-slavery senators of forcing Kansas into the ranks of slave states?

Answer 22

Charles Sumner

Question 23

During Charles Sumner’s speech he singled out who? Who then beat Sumner with a cane for doing this?

Answer 23

Andrew P. Butler, Preston Brooks

Question 24

Former Whigs, members of the free-soil party, and a few antislavery Democrats made what party?

Answer 24

Republican Party

Question 25

Eventually the Republican Party absorbed what other group?

Answer 25

The Northern Know Nothings

Question 26

Republican elected who to run in the 1856 election?

Answer 26

John C. Fremont

Question 27

Who did the Democrats nominate for the 1856 election?

Answer 27

James Buchanan

Question 28

Who did the American party nomiate for the 1856 election?

Answer 28

Millar Fillmore

Question 29

Who ended up winning the 1856 election?

Answer 29

James Buchanan

Question 30

What chief Justice ruled against Scott and was extremely racist in the Dred Scott case?

Answer 30

Roger B. Taney

Question 31

What group voted to accept the Lecompton Constitution?

Answer 31

The Senate, (the house blocked it)

Question 32

IN 1858 who was the republican candidate chosen to run for the Senate?

Answer 32

Abraham Lincoln

Question 33

Who was the democrat thatdebated with Abraham Lincoln

Answer 33

Stephen A. Douglas

Question 34

During a deate with Lincoln, Douglas tried to avoid the dilemma of slavery by formulating an answer that became known as what?

Answer 34

Freeport Doctrine

Question 35

Who planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry?

Answer 35

John Brown

Question 36

Who was the democratic candidate in 1860?

Answer 36

John C. Breckinridge

Question 37

The Constitutional Unionists chose whom as their candidate in 1860?

Answer 37

John Bell

Question 38

The Republicans chose who for the 1860 election?

Answer 38

Abraham Lincoln

Question 39

What was the first state to vote for an Ordinance of Secession?

Answer 39

South Carolina

Question 40

What was the one island stronghold that reamined out of Southern hands?

Answer 40

Fort Sumter

Question 41

Lincoln asked Republicans to stand firm so what compromise would not pass?

Answer 41

Crittenden's Compromise

Question 42

What was the name of the seceeded states?

Answer 42

Confederate State of America

Question 43

Confederate forces bombarded what fort for 33 hours?

Answer 43

Fort Sumter

Question 44

Presiden Lincoln called for how many volunteers?

Answer 44

75,000

Question 45

Lincoln imposed what in Baltimore, where mobs had already attacked federal troops?

Answer 45

Martial Law

Question 46

What state stayed Neutral until 1861

Answer 46

Kentucky

Question 47

Which state stayed with the Union despite it's location?

Answer 47

Missouri