chapter 13 terms

Question 1

Vice president of the Confederate States of America

Answer 1

Alexander Stephens

Question 2

Chief justice of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision

Answer 2

roger

Question 3

3. President of the Confederate States of America

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Answer 3

jefferson Davis

Question 4

Democrat elected president in 1856, would not act to prevent secession

Answer 4

James bucannue

Question 5

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 5

Harriet Beecher stowe

Question 6

Runaway slave who started an abolitionist newspaper

Answer 6

Fredrick douglass

Question 7

Runaway slave who helped others escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad

Answer 7

Harriet Tubman

Question 8

Republican president elected in 1860

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 8

Abraham Lincoln

Question 9

Illinois senator who debated Lincoln and proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Acts

Answer 9

Stephen douglass

Question 10

Former slave whose case went to the Supreme Court

Answer 10

dred scott

Question 11

Abolitionist leader of the raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia

Answer 11

John Brown

Question 12

Conscience Whigs, Northern Democrats, and the Free Soil Party joined together to form the_____ Party in 1854.

Answer 12

republican party

Question 13

African Americans were not citizens and therefore could not sue in federal court, African Americans had no rights that a white man was bound to respect, moving into a free territory did not make a slave free, and the Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were unconstitutional because they deprived a person of his property without due process were results of the Supreme Court decision against _____.

Answer 13

dred Scott

Question 14

14 __________________ view of slavery in 1860 was he believed the Declaration of Independence applied to blacks as well as whites, he opposed the spread of slavery to new territories, and he said he would not interfere with slavery where it already existed.

Answer 14

lincoln’s

Question 15

The Confederates fired on _____________________because Lincoln was sending supplies to the fort.

Answer 15

fort sumter

Question 16

The slave states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware remained in the Union and were called _____ states.

Answer 16

border state

Question 17

ts population was much greater , it had most of the industry in Americaandit was adding many immigrants to its population annually were all advantages for the ___________in the Civil war.

Answer 17

north

Question 18

It only had to fight a defensive war and did not need to invade the other region, they would fight intensely to protect their homes and way of life, and it had many good and experienced commanders were some advantages for the _______________ in the Civil War.

Answer 18

south

Question 19

What is the term forpowers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states?

Answer 19

reserved powers

Question 20

What is the term forgovernment based on consent of the people?
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Answer 20

Popular sovereignty

Question 21

The person the owner hired to distribute the work among the slaves and ensure they did as expected was the ___________________________________________________

Answer 21

antebellum

Question 22

In the ____________________system, slaves worked in large groups for a set amount of time each day.

Answer 22

gang system

Question 23

. In the __________________________system, slaves worked on a specific job until it was complete and then could use the remainder of the day working for themselves.

Answer 23

task system

Question 24

Two northern abolitionist newspaper publishers who called for an immediate end to slavery were

Answer 24

Lloyd and greely

Question 25

. _______________________________were songs slaves wrote about their condition.

Answer 25

Spirituals

Question 26

A famous book written about the plight of slave families and runaways was _______________________.

Answer 26

uncle toms cabin

Question 27

The ____________________________Act proposed that popular sovereignty determine the status of slavery in two new western territories

Answer 27

kanas Nebraska act

Question 28

The senator from Massachusetts who verbally attacked his pro-slavery colleagues and was beaten with a cane in the Senate chamber was_____________________

Answer 28

Charles Sumner

Question 29

The South Carolina Congressman who beat a senator from Massachusetts with a cane was _____________________________..

Answer 29

Preston Brooks

Question 30

Some Southern states threatened ________________________________or the act of leaving the Union, ifRepublicans won the election of 1860.

Answer 30

secession

Question 31

When the Democratic Party split in 1860, Southern Democrats nominated __________________ ____________as their candidate.

Answer 31

John c breken bridge

Question 32

The Constitutional Union Party nominated ___________________________as their candidate in 1860.

Answer 32

John bell

Question 33

The states that seceded met in Montgomery, Alabama, in February 1861 and formed the _____ __________________________________________________

Answer 33

confederate states

Question 34

Fort __________________________ in Charleston Harbor was the place where the first shots of the Civil Warwere fired.

Answer 34

fort sumter

Question 35

Fifty counties of a state that had chosen to secede formed their own government and became thestate of

Answer 35

west Virginia

Question 36

Why was Kansas called “bleeding Kansas” in the years leading up to its vote on slavery in the territory?

Answer 36

Because of the violence that happened between the anti-slavery and pro-slavery groups

Question 37

38. What did Lincoln do to ensure that Maryland remained in the Union?

Answer 37

He declared martial law and

suspended the right of habeas corpus.