History 8 Chapter 16

T or F: The American Party grew quickly due to its anti-immigrant views.

True

T or F: The Know-Nothings chose Millard Fillmore as their candidate in the 1856 presidential election.

True

John Brown

Violent abolitionist

What was the result of enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act?

Anger in the North

Which event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Attack on Fort Sumter

T or F: Lincoln believed slavery was moral.

False

T or F: Pro-slavery groups considered John Brown a martyr.

False

Compromise of 1850

Included the Fugitive Slave Act

Who won the presidential election in 1856 after taking all Southern states except Maryland?

James Buchanan

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

Jefferson Davis

Who led a raid on a federal Arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia?

John Brown

What accusation did Douglas make against Lincoln?

Lincoln wanted African Americans to be fully equal to whites.

"Bleeding Kansas"

Name used un 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

Border Ruffians

Pro-slavery activists who crossed the Kansas border to vote

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Put the issue of slavery to popular vote

"Free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men" was the motto of which political party?

Republican Party

What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debate?

Slavery

Which was the first state to secede from the Union?

South Carolina

Republican Party

The Antislavery Whigs, Democrats, and Free-spoilers joined together to form

36degrees 30' North Latitude

The line that marked the division between slave states and non-slave states

Civil War

The name for a war between citizens of the same country

Lincoln was largely unknown before which election?

1858 congressional election

Arsenal

A storage site for weapons