Test Notes For History Ch 14

Question 0

Runaway slaves?

Answer 0

Fugitive

Question 1

Slave state?

Answer 1

Missouri

Question 2

Boundary of slavery?

Answer 2

36* 30’N

Question 3

Free slave state?

Answer 3

Maine

Question 4

To leave the union?

Answer 4

Secede

Question 5

Allowing the people to decide?

Answer 5

Popular sovereignty

Question 6

Free soil party candidate?

Answer 6

Martin Van Buren

Question 7

Simon Legree?

Answer 7

Character in Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 8

Territory open to slavery?

Answer 8

Kansas

Question 9

Violent abolitionist at Harpers Ferry?

Answer 9

John Brown

Question 10

1856 democratic candidate?

Answer 10

James Buchanan

Question 11

Constitution Union party candidate?

Answer 11

John Bell

Question 12

Winners in 1854 election?

Answer 12

Republicans

Question 13

1856 Know Nothing party candidate?

Answer 13

Millard Fillmore

Question 14

Withdrawal from the Union?

Answer 14

Secession

Question 15

1856 republican candidate?

Answer 15

John C. Fremont

Question 16

” The little Giant”

Answer 16

Stephen A. Douglas

Question 17

Candidate of Southern democrats?

Answer 17

John Breckinridge

Question 18

What happened on February 4,1861 ?

Answer 18

Confederate States of America formed

Question 19

The first president of the CSA?

Answer 19

Jefferson Davis

Question 20

The Union captain at Fort Sumter was?

Answer 20

Abner Doubleday

Question 21

Who Proposed last minute compromise?

Answer 21

John Crittenden

Question 22

Southern justified secession with the theory of ______?

Answer 22

B: states’ rights

Question 23

Antislavery Whigs, Democrats and Free-soilers joined together to form what party?

Answer 23

D: Republican Party

Question 24

First state to secede was ______?

Answer 24

C: South Carolina

Question 25

This event marked the beginning of the Civil War.

Answer 25

C: Fort Sumter Shelling

Question 26

This Supreme Court Decision meant that the Constitution protected slavery

Answer 26

B: Dred Scott case

Question 27

Who said " a house divided against itself can not stand?"

Answer 27

C: Abraham Lincoln

Question 28

The law that's required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves was the _________?

Answer 28

A: fugitive slave act

Question 29

Rival proslavery and antislavery governments existed in this state

Answer 29

B: Kansas

Question 30

This man's death became a rallying point for abolitionist.

Answer 30

C: John Brown

Question 31

Sam Houston predicted this act would "convulse the country from Maine to the Rio Grande."

Answer 31

B: Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 32

A war between the citizens of the same country is called ______?

Answer 32

C: Civil War

Question 33

Lincoln was relatively unknown throughout the country before the __________?

Answer 33

Congressional election of 1858

Question 34

Missourians who traveled in armed groups to cross the border and vote in elections became known as _____?

Answer 34

C: Border ruffians

Question 35

This is an exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country

Answer 35

C: sectionalism

Question 36

The plan that preserved the balance between slave and free states I. The senate was the ______?

Answer 36

B: Missouri compromise

Question 37

The main issue in the presidential election of the 1844 was ________?

Answer 37

D: Annexation of Texas

Question 38

Congress not local government had the authority to ban slavery from a territory

Answer 38

B: Zachary Taylor

Question 39

President Millard Filllmore persuaded several Whig representatives to not cast a vote or to ______?

Answer 39

C: abstain