Causes of American Civil War facts

Question 0

Who stood for the Free Soil Party in 1848?

Answer 0

Martin Van Buren

Question 1

Who stood for the Whigs in the 1848 election?

Answer 1

Zachary Taylor

Question 2

Taylor’s results in 1848 election

Answer 2

48% of vote

163 electoral college votes

Question 3

Free Soil results 1848 elections

Answer 3

10% votes

No electoral votes

Question 4

What fraction of slave state members signed Calhoun’s Address

Answer 4

One third

Question 5

When was the California Gold rush?

Answer 5

1848-49

Question 6

What did Taylor encourage settlers in California and New Mexico to do in 1849

Answer 6

Apply immediately for admission to the union without first going through the process of establishing territorial governments.

Question 7

When did California ratify a constitution to prohibit slavery and applied for immediate admission to the union?

Answer 7

1849

Question 8

When did fist fights break out on the floor of Congress?

Answer 8

December 1849

Question 9

When did Henry Clay first offer the 1850 compromise?

Answer 9

January 1850

Question 10

Did Taylor approve or appose Clay’s 1859 proposals?

Answer 10

Opposed

Question 11

When did slave state delegates meet in Nashville. How many states represented?

Answer 11

June 1850. Nine out of fifteen.

Question 12

When did president Taylor die?

Answer 12

July 1850

Question 13

Who replaced Taylor as President?

Answer 13

Millard Fillmore

Question 14

When had the Compromise passed thanks to Senator Douglas?

Answer 14

September 1850

Question 15

What were the 5 terms of the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 15

Statehood for CA
Territorial status for Utah and New-Mexico - allowing pop sov.
Resolution of the Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute
Abolition of the slave trade in Washington
A new fugitive slave Act

Question 16

Compromise of 1850 voting lines

Answer 16

Most Northern Congressmen voted against the pro-slavery measures while most Southern Congressmen had voted against the anti-slavery measures.

Question 17

Which state tilted the balance in favour of free states?

Answer 17

CA

Question 18

Terms of the new Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 18

Authorised federal marshals to raise posses to pursue fugitives on Northern Soil. Those who refused to join risked a $1000 fine. Targeted not just recent but also old runaways.

Question 19

When did a Boston mob break into a courthouse an kill a guard to rescue Anthony Burns

Answer 19

1854

Question 20

During the 1850s how many northern states passed personal liberty laws?

Answer 20

Nine

Question 21

When was Uncle Tom’s Cabin published?

How many copies sold in first year and how many in next decade?

Answer 21

1851
300,000
Two million

Question 22

Who returned to the Democrats in 1852

Answer 22

Van Buren

Question 23

Who was nominated as Whig candidate for 1852 election?

Answer 23

General Winfield Scott

Question 24

Who was Democratic candidate in 1852?

Answer 24

Franklin Pierce

Question 25

Results of election for Pierce

Answer 25

51 percent | 27 electoral votes - Whigs just four

Question 26

When was Pierce inaugurated?

Answer 26

March 1853

Question 27

When did Pierce give Gadsden authority to negotiate Gadsden purchase?

Answer 27

1853 - 46,000 square miles Mexican territory - gained Senate approval - Southern railway to the Pacific

Question 28

Ostend Manifesto

Answer 28

$130 million for Cuba | American foreign ministers issued Ostend Manifesto - Cuba as necessary to USA as any of its present members, leaked

Question 29

What line did Nebraska lay north of?

Answer 29

36*30 - Missouri Compromise new states would enter the Union as free states

Question 30

When did Douglas introduce the Kansas-Nebraska Bill into congress?

Answer 30

January 1854

Question 31

Who introduced an amendment to specifically repeal the ban on slavery in Nebraska?

Answer 31

Senator Atchinson of Missouri | Nebraska divided into Kansas and Nebraska, slavery might spread to Kansas

Question 32

What was Douglas' motive?

Answer 32

Trans Continental railway with terminal in Chicago - presidential ambition

Question 33

Who published The Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress to the People of the United States, and when?

Answer 33

Salmon Chase - Jan 1854 - Slave Power Conspiracy

Question 34

What did passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill become a symbol of?

Answer 34

Southern honour

Question 35

When did the Kansas Nebraska bill become law?

Answer 35

May 1854

Question 36

How did the Kansas Nebraska Act sectionalise Congress?

Answer 36

90% of Southerners voted for it, 64 percent of Northerners voted against it.

Question 37

When were the Know Nothing's formed?

Answer 37

New York 1849 - nativist

Question 38

Why did Northerners support Know Nothings?

Answer 38

Anti-Catholic Anti-establishment Kansas-Nebraska Act was associated with the Democrats, many Whigs joined Know Nothings

Question 39

When was the Republican Party formed

Answer 39

1854

Question 40

The Republicans were strongest in the Mid-west, the Know Nothings were strongest in New England.

Answer 40

The Republicans were strongest in the Mid-west, the Know Nothings were strongest in New England.

Question 41

Northerners thought that if slavery expanded into Kansas it might expand anywhere. Southerners feared that a free Kansas would be another nail in the slavery coffin.

Answer 41

Northerners thought that if slavery expanded into Kansas it might expand anywhere. Southerners feared that a free Kansas would be another nail in the slavery coffin.

Question 42

How many Northerners did The MA Emigrant Aid Company sponsor to settle in Kansas?

Answer 42

Over 1500 in 1854-5

Question 43

What Association did Senator Atchinson form that pledged to ensure that Kansas became a slave state?

Answer 43

The Platte County Defensive Association

Question 44

When did Kansas elect its first territorial legislature and where did they meet?

Answer 44

March 1855 Lecompton - proceeded to pass a series of tough pro-slavery laws

Question 45

Where did Free-soilers set up their own government?

Answer 45

Topeka

Question 46

What event started Bleeding Kansas, and when?

Answer 46

May 1856 a pro-slavery posse 'sacked' Lawrence, burning some building, blown out of proportion by Northern journalists.

Question 47

Who murder five pro-slavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek?

Answer 47

John Brown

Question 48

Was Bleeding Kansas good or bad for Republicans?

Answer 48

Good because Bleeding Kansas became a rallying cry for Northerners opposed to slave power.

Question 49

When was the American Party forced to drop its Anti-Kansas-Nebraska position?

Answer 49

1856

Question 50

What led to a decline in nativism in the mid 1850s

Answer 50

Decline of immigration

Question 51

When Congress met in December 1855 Know Nothings were split North and South

Answer 51

When Congress met in December 1855 Know Nothings were split North and South

Question 52

When did the Republican Party hold its first national convention?

Answer 52

February 1856

Question 53

The idea of a Slave power conspiracy was an article of faith o most Republicans

Answer 53

The idea of a Slave power conspiracy was an article of faith o most Republicans

Question 54

When did Bleeding Sumner take place and who beat him?

Answer 54

May 1856 Preston Brooks - silence free speech