Chapter 16 discovering our past a history of the United States
Lincoln and....................other candidates ran for president in 1860
Three
In Arseal is a storage site for weapons
True
Proslavery groups considered John brown a martyr
True
The know nothings chose Millard Fillmore as their candidate in the 1856 presidential election
True
Even though his name was not on the ballot in most southern states, Lincoln was elected US president because the north was more.....................................
populous
Which event marked the beginning of the Civil War?
Attack on Fort Sumter
The Wilmot proviso called for........
Banning slavery in any lands the US acquired from Mexico
Which term refers to Pro- slavery activist who crossed the Kansas border to vote?
Border ruffians
What is the name for a war between citizens of the same country?
Civil War
Which of the following relates to a Supreme Court decision that ruled the Constitution protected slavery?
Dred Scott
Abraham Lincoln believed slavery was moral
False
Which was the third state to secede from the union?
Florida
compromise of 1850
Included the fugitive slave act
Who is the first president of the Confederate states of America?
Jefferson Davis
Who led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
John Brown
In which state did rival pro slavery and anti-slavery governments exist at the same time?
Kansas
Which of these accusations did Douglas make against Lincoln?
Lincoln wanted African Americans to be fully equal to whites
Bleeding Kansas
Name used in the 1856 newspaper stories about events in Lawrence Kansas
What approach did Senator Stephen a Douglas propose as an alternative to the Missouri compromise?
Popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Put the issue of slavery to the popular vote
White southerners feared that the 1860 victories by Lincolns................................party would result in slave revolts.
Republican
Which party did the Anti-slavery Whigs, Democrats, and Free-Soilers join together to form?
Republican Party
Popular sovereignty
Rule by the people
After the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency, the southern states debated the question of ......................................., or withdrawing from the union.
Secession
The issue of...................................created a break in the Democratic Party during the 1860 presidential election?
Slavery
Which was the first state to vote to secede from the union?
South Carolina
Which of these concepts did secessionists use to support their views?
States rights
36° 30 N. latitude
The line that marked the division between slave states and non-slave states
John brown
An abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing Armories in southern territory and giving weapons to slaves, was hung in Harpers Ferry after capturing an Armory
Lincoln was largely unknown before which election?
1858 congressional election