15 Divided Nation

Question 0

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 0

a document that stated that slavery would be against the law in all parts of the Mexican Cession

Question 1

popular sovereignty

Answer 1

the idea that called for voters in a new territory to decide whether to allow slavery

Question 2

sectionalism

Answer 2

favoring the interests of one section or region of a country over the interests of the entire country

Question 3

Free Soil Party

Answer 3

northern party that supported the Wilmot Proviso

Question 4

Senator Henry Clay

Answer 4

senator who designed a compromise to end conflicts between free states and slave states

Question 5

Compromise of 1850

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Henry Clay’s proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty

Question 6

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 6

Law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed slaves to be arrested in free areas

Question 7

Anthony Burns

Answer 7

a fugitive slave from Virginia who was arrested in Boston sparking violence

Question 8

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 8

A anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the humanity of slaves

Question 9

Franklin Pierce

Answer 9

Politician who promised to honor the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act

Question 10

Stephen Douglas

Answer 10

Illinois Senator who sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act in exchange for a railroad from Chicago to the Pacific Ocean

Question 11

Charles Sumner

Answer 11

Massachusetts senator who spoke out against pro-slavery supporters in Kansas and was beaten unconscious on the Senate floor

Question 12

Preston Brooks

Answer 12

a pro-slavery representative from South Carolina who attacked Charles Sumner on the Senate floor

Question 13

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 13

Act that divided the Louisiana Purchase into two territories and allowed popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery

Question 14

Pottawatomie Massacre

Answer 14

Event during which abolitionist John Brown and his men killed five pro-slavery men in response to the Sack of Lawrence

Question 15

Republican Party

Answer 15

a political party formed in 1854 that united against the spread of slavery in the West

Question 16

James Buchanan

Answer 16

fifteenth president of the United States elected in part because he was out of the country during the Kansas-Nebraska Act controversy

Question 17

Dred Scott

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A slave who sued for his freedom and lost in the Supreme Court

Question 18

Roger B. Taney

Answer 18

Chief Justice who gave the decision in the Dred Scott Case

Question 19

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 19

Supreme Court decision that African Americans were not citizens and could not challenge people in federal court; also declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

Question 20

Abraham Lincoln

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Illinois lawyer who became the sixteenth president of the United States; the first president of the Republican Party

Question 21

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

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A series of debates between Republican Abraham Lincoln and Democrat Stephen Douglas during the 1858 U.S. Senate campaign in Illinois

Question 22

Freeport Doctrine

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The idea that police would enforce the voters’ decision if it contradicted the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case

Question 23

John Brown’s Raid

Answer 23

uprising in which John Brown and his followers attempted to take over an arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia

Question 24

secession

Answer 24

a formal withdrawal from the Union of the United States

Question 25

Confederate States of America

Answer 25

A union formed by southern states

Question 26

Jefferson Davis

Answer 26

president of the Confederacy