Chapter 15 A Divided Nation

Question 0

Many opposed slavery spreading to the Mexican cession, so Rep. Wilmot introduced the __________.

Answer 0

Wilmot Proviso

Question 1

After winning the Mexican War in _____ the U.S. added 500 square mile called the ________.

Answer 1

1848

Mexican cession

Question 2

What did the Wilmot Proviso do?

Answer 2

Banned slavery in the Mexican cession

Question 3

The Wilmot Proviso failed. Why?

Answer 3

People chose sectionalism over Part Allegience.

Question 4

Neither _____ nor ______ stood for slavery during the election of ______.

Answer 4

Democrats
Wigs
1848

Question 5

During the election, what new party formed?

Answer 5

Free Soil Party

Question 6

The Free Soil Party supported ______ and nominated _________ for president.

Answer 6

Wilmot Proviso

Van Buran

Question 7

Who won the election of 1848?

Answer 7

Whig, Zachary Taylor

Question 8

When the state of ______ reached the population needed for statehood the question of if would be _______ popped up.

Answer 8

California

Slave

Question 9

Most of California _______ slavery, but if entered as free then the balance would be upset.

Answer 9

Opposed

Question 10

What compromise did Henry Clay propose to settle the California Question?

Answer 10

Compromise of 1850

Question 11

The _________was corrupt on enforcement.

Answer 11

Fugitive slave act

Question 12

How did the Fugitive Slave Act enforce its rules?

Answer 12

Commissioner payed $10 for every returned slave

Question 13

What 2 purposes did slave literature serve?

Answer 13

To gain sympathy & abolition

Educate the reality of slavery

Question 14

__________ wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin shocking over _____ million people.

Answer 14

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Question 15

Was the popular vote in the election of 1852 based on slavery or party allegiance?

Answer 15

Slavery

Question 16

Who won by gaining support of southerners?

Answer 16

Democrat Franklin Pierce

Question 17

Douglas proposed building a railroad from _______ to ________.

Answer 17

Chicago

Pacific Ocean

Question 18

The railroad would require being built where?

Answer 18

Unorganized territory of LA purchase

Question 19

_______ determined that LA purchase territory was a _____ territory.

Answer 19

Missouri Compromise of 1820

Free

Question 20

Why did Douglas’s plan gain support?

Answer 20

Congress agreed to allow slavery

Question 21

Douglas introduced the ___________ to eliminate the __________, allowing popular sovereignty to vote on slavery.

Answer 21

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Missouri Compromise

Question 22

Northerners were ________ when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in ______.

Answer 22

Outraged

1854

Question 23

Because some people agreed with the Kansas-Nebraska Act the legislature was divided into what 2 parts?

Answer 23

1 pro

1 anti

Question 24

A pro posey tried to attack anti-slaves but they __________.

Answer 24

Rioted the city

Question 25

The riot by Brown was called _______.

Answer 25

Pattawatomic Massacre

Question 26

Members of the of the Whigs ________, _________, and abolitionists formed the ________.

Answer 26

Democrats Free-Soilers Republican Party

Question 27

Whig party fell due to KS-NE Act and ______ lost power.

Answer 27

Democrats

Question 28

The remainder of Democrats & Whigs formed ________.

Answer 28

Know-Nothing Party

Question 29

What democrat won the election of 1856?

Answer 29

James Buchanan

Question 30

what slave sued for freedom after his owner brought him to live in a free state?

Answer 30

Dred Scott

Question 31

According to the Dred Scott decision slaves weren't ______ and couldn't _______.

Answer 31

citizens | sue in court

Question 32

Since Scott returned to a slave state he wasn't _______.

Answer 32

free

Question 33

The Supreme Court declared ___________ unconstitutional because no one could be denied of ____,________, and ________.

Answer 33

Missouri Compromise | life, liberty, property

Question 34

_______ led a raid on the federal arsenal of ________.

Answer 34

John Brown | Harper's Ferry

Question 35

What effects did Brown's raid cause?

Answer 35

South afraid of raids & North disappointed in violence

Question 36

Representative _______ won the election of 1860 by 40% popular vote and ________ electoral votes.

Answer 36

Lincoln | 180

Question 37

What did Lincoln promise the U.S. about slavery?

Answer 37

it would not spread farther than the south

Question 38

How did the south react to Lincoln's ban on slavery past the south?

Answer 38

the seceded from the Union

Question 39

What did the south form and who was their president?

Answer 39

Confederate States of America | Jefferson Davis

Question 40

Lincoln felt the South's secession was unconstitutional, but the south believed what?

Answer 40

State's rights stronger than federal power