Chapter13

Question 0

Free-Soilers

Answer 0

Anti-slavery forces

Question 1

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 1

United States prohibit slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico

Question 2

California gold rush

Answer 2

Men traveling to California to seek wealth or gold forty-niners:

Question 3

forty-niners

Answer 3

Gold hunters

Question 4

Underground Railroad

Answer 4

The escape route for fugitive slaves through the Northern states

Question 5

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 5

A fictional book depicting slavery that increased abolitionism

Question 6

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 6

To be settled one with slavery, one without

Question 7

Know-Nothings

Answer 7

Aka American party

Question 8

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 8

Bloody fighting in Kansas with pro slavery against anti slavery advocates

Question 9

Sumner-Brooks episode

Answer 9

In response went to his office and beat him

Question 10

John Brown

Answer 10

Fanatical abolitionist and terrorist

Question 11

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 11

President during the civil war

Question 12

Harper’s Ferry

Answer 12

John Brown’s attack on a U.S. armory

Question 13

Fort Sumter

Answer 13

Battle that resulted in the start of the civil war