Chapter 16

Question 1

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 1

A proposal that would ban slavery in any form anywhere.

Question 2

Who won the Election of 1848?

Answer 2

The Honorable Zachary Taylor

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Compromise of 1850

Question 4

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

Answer 4

The Fugitive Slave Act

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Fined or Imprisoned

Question 6

What did the enforcement of this act do?

Answer 6

It caused more anger in the North

Question 7

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

Answer 7

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 8

What is popular sovereignty?

Answer 8

Letting the people decide things for themselves.

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Kansas

Question 10

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

Answer 10

John Brown

Question 11

What happened in the Sumner Brooks Incident?

Answer 11

Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was hit with a cane by Rep. Preston Brooks of South Carolina on the Capitol Floor.

Question 12

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

Answer 12

The Modern Republican Party

Question 13

Who did Dred Scott sue?

Answer 13

His owner James Buchanan

Question 14

What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?

Answer 14

Divided It (More)

Question 15

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

Answer 15

The Honorable Robert Brooke Taney

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Protected Slavery

Question 17

What Senate race became the center of national attention?

Answer 17

Lincoln v. Douglass

Question 18

What party was each candidate a part of in the Lincoln-Douglas race?

Answer 18

Lincoln- Republican

Douglass- Democrat

Question 19

What was the main topic of the debates during the Lincoln-Douglas election?

Answer 19

Slavery

Question 20

Who won the Illinois Senate race between Lincoln and Douglas?

Answer 20

Stephen A. Douglass

Question 21

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

Answer 21

The Raid on Harpers Ferry

Question 22

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

Answer 22

A Rebellion

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Brown’s Death

Question 24

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

Answer 24

South Carolina

Question 25

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

Answer 25

The Confederate States of America

Question 26

How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?

Answer 26

They felt that their rights had been violated.

Question 27

Who was the first President of the Confederate States of America?

Answer 27

Jefferson Finis Davis

Question 28

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

Answer 28

The People’s

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Fort Sumter in SC

Question 30

What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Answer 30

The attack of Ft. Sumter