history chapter 10 papergame

Question 0

Controversial novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that proclaimed that slavery was a moral issue

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Uncle toms cabin

Question 1

Political party that organized around anti-immigrant and anti catholic ideas; very secretive

Answer 1

Know- nothing party

Question 2

Network of secret tunnels that Harriet Tubman and others used to hide and free slaves

Answer 2

Underground Railroad

Question 3

Part of the compromise of 1850; a crime to help a slave become free; could be fined/severe prison

Answer 3

Fugitive slave act

Question 4

President of the confederate states of America; former senator from Mississippi

Answer 4

Jefferson Davis

Question 5

Republican president that won the election of 1860; initially debated Douglas for a US senate seat

Answer 5

Lincoln

Question 6

Whig vice- president that becomes president after Taylor dies; puts the compromise of 1850 into law

Answer 6

Millard Fillmore

Question 7

Supreme Court justice that handed down the very controversial dread Scott decision

Answer 7

Roger Taney

Question 8

Democratic president that wins the election of 1856; poor reaction to the succession in the south

Answer 8

James Buchanan

Question 9

Political party that believed in the Wilmot proviso and did not want slavery to extend in the west

Answer 9

Free- soil party

Question 10

Whig president and formal Mexican American war general that was poor fit for the time; dies in office

Answer 10

Zachary Taylor

Question 11

Political party that was created because of the k-n act; did not want the extension of slavery in west

Answer 11

Republican

Question 12

Major violent abolitionist who participated in the violence in Kansas and conducted a revolt in Virginia

Answer 12

John brown

Question 13

Political party that organized as an oppositional party to the democrats; pro business and BUS

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Whig

Question 14

Violent civil war that erupts in Kansas after Kansas and Nebraska act was passed

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Bleeding Kansas

Question 15

Politician and senator from Illinois that created the Kansas- Nebraska act; debated Lincoln; ran for pres

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Stephen Douglas

Question 16

Four candidates ran in this controversial election; Lincoln won the race but south seceded after election

Answer 16

Election if 1860

Question 17

Concept in which states would be able to vote and decide whether that would be “free” or “slave”

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Popular sovereignty

Question 18

Name given to Douglas’ proposed method for getting around the dred Scott decision

Answer 18

Freeport doctrine

Question 19

Name of the political entry formed by southern states seceding from the union

Answer 19

Confederate sates of America

Question 20

Controversial court case that said that a slave was not free even if he/she was in a free territory

Answer 20

Dred- Scott

Question 21

Democratic president but who won the election of 1852

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Franklin pierce

Question 22

Political party that initially supported all things Jackson, states rights, and a limited government

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Democratic Party

Question 23

Politician and creator of the compromise of 1850; co-founder of the whig party

Answer 23

Henry clay

Question 24

Initial compromise that was to temporarily resolve that issue of slavery in the Louisiana territory

Answer 24

Missouri compromise

Question 25

Discussion between two men who were vying for a US senate seat; created more dialogue about slavery

Answer 25

Lincoln- Douglas Debates

Question 26

Huge five path document that was to resolve several issues about slavery And land won during Mexican American war

Answer 26

Compromise of 1850

Question 27

Document that repealed the Missouri compromise by allowing Kansas/ Nebraska popular sovereignty

Answer 27

Kansas- Nebraska act

Question 28

Document developed by the proslavery government of Kansas; protected property claims of slaveholder

Answer 28

Lecompton constitution