US history chapter 13
What event was most responsible for the Upper South seceding?
Abraham Lincoln's call for troops
Name given to the Kansas Territory because of all the fighting there
Bleeding Kansas
What was a reaction to the threat of the Wilmot Proviso?
Calhoun Resolutions
This territory's population increased by eighty thousand in one year
California
This made California a free state but offered a stronger fugitive slave act
Compromise of 1850
Name for non-Republican, non-Democratic party that had a presidential candidate in 1860
Constitutional Union Party
He said,"I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, not as a northern man, but as an American."
Daniel Webster
This party offered two candidates in 1860
Democratic party
slave who the Supreme Court ruled against
Dred Scott
This decision declared the Missouri Compromise Unconstitutional
Dred Scott v. Sandford
In the 1850s, these extremists began to call for the South to secede to keep the Southern way of life
Fire-Eaters
radical southerners
Fire-Eaters
Location where the first shots of the Civil War were fired
Fort Sumter
California gold rush miners
Forty-Niners
Nickname given to men who had gold fever
Forty-Niners
Elected president in 1852
Franklin Pierce
In this doctrine, Stephan Douglas said that a territory could prohibit slavery
Free port doctrine
acceptance of slavery in the South, rejection of slavery in the territories
Free-spoiler
Which provision of the Compromise of 1850 called for the return of runaway slaves to bondage?
Fugitive Slave Act
Federal arsenal located here was attacked in 1859
Harpers Ferry, Virginia
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Great Compromiser"
Henry Clay
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas were from this state
Illinois
Democrats' victorious candidate in 1856
James Buchanan
Who was not among the candidates for president in the election of 1860?
James Buchanan
Constitutional Union candidate in 1860
John Bell
Madman of Pottawatomie and Harpers Ferry
John Brown
proposed legislation saying no one could prohibit a territory until the territory became a state
John C. Calhoun
Senator who proposed constitutional amendments in the last effort to save the Union
John J. Crittenden
Gold was found on this man's property
John Sutter
anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic
Know-Nothing
Name of the doctrine that let residents decide on the slavery issue
Popular Sovereignty
residents of a territory should decide the status of slavery in their territory
Popular Sovereignty
Inflicting a beating on Charles Sumner
Preston Brooks
antislavery, pro-business
Republican
John C. Fremont was a presidential candidate for this party
Republican Party
Chief justice during the Dred Scott v. Sandford case
Roger Taney
Before landing in this harbor, some captains put there crews on chains
San Francisco
Leaving the Union
Secession
This action was threatened by the South if Lincoln won the election of 1860
Secession
support for slave revolt
Secret Six
Illinois senator who proposed dividing Kansas Territory into two parts
Stephen Douglas
According to Daniel Webster, why was the debate over slavery in the new territories needless?
The climate of the new territories could not support slavery
What event was most responsible for the Lower South seceding?
The election of Abraham Lincoln
Name of a novel that became very controversial in the 1850s
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Name for the escape route for fugitive slaves
Underground Railroad
Party that split and died in the 1850s
Whigs
This bill proposed that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired from Mexico
Wilmot Proviso
Elected president in 1848
Zachary Taylor
The Calhoun Resolutions said that slavery____
could not be banned until a territory became a state
The South resisted the admission of California as a state because Southerners____
feared the loss of power in the Senate.
