Chpt 16

Question 1

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 1

Proposal that banned slavery in any lands that the us acquired from Mexico but never passed

Question 2

Who won the Election of 1848?

Answer 2

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

Fugitive state act

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Imprisioned and fined

Question 6

What did the enforcement of the fugitive act do?

Answer 6

Angered north

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Kansas Nebraska act

Question 8

What is popular sovereignty?

Answer 8

Letting people decide for themselves about an issue

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

Senator Charles lashed out at Andrew p. Butler

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Republican Party

Question 13

Who did Dred Scott sue?

Answer 13

Sanford slave owner

Question 14

What did the Dred Scott Decision do to the nation?

Answer 14

Divided it

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Rodger b. Taney

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Protect slavery

Question 17

What Senate race became the center of national attention?

Answer 17

Lincoln v Douglas

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Slavery

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

Douglas

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Raid on harpers ferry

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Rebellion vs slavehlder

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Lincoln was republican and Douglass democratic

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Slavery

Question 25

Who won the Illinois Senate race between Lincoln and Douglas?

Answer 25

Douglass

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Harpers ferry

Question 27

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

Answer 27

For slaves to kill there owners and stop slavery

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Death of brown

Question 29

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

Answer 29

South Carolina

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Confederacy

Question 31

How did the Confederate States of America justify secession?

Answer 31

States right

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Jefferson Davis

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Their hands

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Fort Sumter

Question 35

What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Answer 35

Attack on fort Sumter