Chapter 16

Question 1

What was the main topic of the debates during that election?

Answer 1

Slavery

Question 2

Who was the violent abolitionist that believed God had chosen him to end slavery?

Answer 2

John brown

Question 3

What did Antislavery Whigs & Democrats, and Free Soilers join together to
become?

Answer 3

Republican Party

Question 4

Who did Dred Scott sue?

Answer 4

His owner

Question 5

What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?

Answer 5

Divided it

Question 6

Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled on the Dred Scott case?

Answer 6

Roger b Taney

Question 7

According to the Dred Scott Decision, what did the Constitution do?

Answer 7

Protected slavery

Question 8

What Senate race became the center of national attention?

Answer 8

Lincoln and Douglas debates-senate race in Illinois

Question 9

What party was each candidate a part of?

Answer 9

Republican and democratic

Question 10

Who won the Illinois Senate race?

Answer 10

Douglas

Question 11

What was the name of the event when John Brown led men to attack a weapon
storage facility?

Answer 11

The raid on Harper’s ferry

Question 12

What was Brown hoping to start at the Raid on Harpers Ferry?

Answer 12

A rebellion

Question 13

After this event, what became a rallying point for many abolitionists?

Answer 13

Browns death

Question 14

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

Answer 14

South Carolina

Question 15

After seven states seceded, what was formed on Feb. 4, 1861?

Answer 15

A new nation and a new government called the confederate states of America

Question 16

How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?

Answer 16

Belief in states rights

Question 17

Who was the first President of the CSA?

Answer 17

Jefferson Davis

Question 18

Whose hands did President Lincoln say the possibility of war was in?

Answer 18

The people’s hands

Question 19

Confederate guns opened fire on what on April 12, 1861?

Answer 19

Fort Sumter

Question 20

What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Answer 20

The fort Sumter attack

Question 21

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 21

Eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican war

Question 22

Who won the Election of 1848?

Answer 22

Buchanan

Question 23

What was the name for the bills that dealt with slavery in the states added since the
Missouri Compromise?

Answer 23

Fugitive slave act

Question 24

What required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves in 1850?

Answer 24

Fugitive slave act

Question 25

Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be, what two things?

Answer 25

Fined or imprisioned

Question 26

What did the enforcement of this act do?

Answer 26

Cause more anger in the north

Question 27

What increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the U.S.?

Answer 27

Kansas Nebraska act

Question 28

What is popular sovereignty?

Answer 28

Rule by people

Question 29

Which territory was the first to have blood shed over slavery?

Answer 29

Kansas

Question 30

What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?

Answer 30

Senator Charles sumner lashed out against people for slavery, including Andrew p butler