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Compromise of 1850

This included the Fugitive Slave Act

Bleeding Kansas

This is the name used in 1856 newspaper stories about events in Lawrence, Kansas

36 30 North Latitude

This was the line that marked the division between slave states and non-slave states

true

True or False: An arsenal is a storage site for weapons.

true

True or False: Antislavery members of the Whigs and the Democrats joined Free-Soilers to form the Republican Party.

true

True or False: As part of the Compromise of 1850, the slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C.

true

True or False: Fremont carried 11 of the 16 free states but not a single electoral vote south of the Mason-Dixon line.

false

True or False: Fremont carried all of the 16 free states but only a single electoral vote south of the Mason-Dixon line.

true

True or False: In the 1854 election, Republicans won several seats in the House of Representatives from Northern States.

false

True or False: In the 1854 election, Republicans won several seats in the House of Representatives from Southern States.

true

True or False: In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that a slave was "property."

true

True or False: James Buchanan, a diplomat and former congressman, was nominated for president by the Democratic Party in 1856.

false

True or False: James Buchanan, a diplomat and former congressman, was nominated for president by the Republican Party in 1856.

false

True or False: Lincoln believed slavery was moral.

true

True or False: Pro-Slavery groups considered John Brown a martyr.

false

True or False: Roger B. Taney was a senator from the state of California.

false

True or False: Texas became a state following the Mexican War.

true

True or False: The American Party grew quickly between 1853 and 1856 by attacking immigrants.

True

True or False: The American Party grew quickly due to its anti-immigration views.

true

True or False: The American Party was also called the Know Nothings.

false

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

true

True or False: The Republican Party was formed by antislavery Whigs and Democrats.

true

True or False: The electoral vote gave Buchanan the victory in the election of 1856.

pleased

Were southerners pleased or upset about the result of the Dred Scott case?

Popular Sovereignty

What approach did Senator Stephen A. Douglas propse as an alternative to the Missouri Compromise?

Wilmot Proviso

What called for banning slavery in any lands the U.S. acquired from Mexico?

Free-Soil Party

What group opposed slavery and gained seats in Congress?

Supreme Court

What group ruled that Scott was not a citizen and had no right to bring a lawsuit; an enslaved person is "property" and property must not be taken away without due process of the law?

arsenal

What is a storage area for weapons called?

civil war

What is the name for a war between citizens of the same country?

pro-slavery

What was John C. Breckinridge's stand on slavery?

Popular Sovereignty

What was Stephen A. Douglas' stand on slavery?

The Dred Scott Case

What was the case called in which Dred Scott sued for his freedom on the grounds that he had lived in free territory so he must be free. This case went all the way to the Supreme Court.

slavery

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

the debate over slavery started again

When the United States added new territory in the 1840s, ____.

free

Whenever a new state was added, it could be a ________ state or a slave state.

slave

Whenever a new state was added, it could be a free state or a __________ state.

Illinois

Which Senate race was the center of national attention in 1858?

Dred Scott

Which Supreme Court decision divided the nation over the issue of slavery?

attack on Fort Sumter

Which event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Dred Scott

Which of the following relates to a Supreme Court decision that ruled that the Constitution protected slavery?

states' rights

Which of these concepts did secessionists use to support their views?

Franklin Pierce becomes president.

Which of these events happened first? - Senator Stephen A. Douglas proposed popular sovereignty. - A vote in Kansas makes slavery legal. - Franklin Pierce becomes president. - The Kansas-Nebraska Act is passed.

A vote in Kansas makes slavery legal.

Which of these events happened last? - Senator Stephen A. Douglas proposed popular sovereignty. - A vote in Kansas makes slavery legal. - Franklin Pierce becomes president. - The Kansas-Nebraska Act is passed.

Senator Stephen A. Douglas proposed popular sovereignty.

Which of these events happened second? - Senator Stephen A. Douglas proposed popular sovereignty. - A vote in Kansas makes slavery legal. - Franklin Pierce becomes president. - The Kansas-Nebraska Act is passed.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act is passed.

Which of these events happened third? - Senator Stephen A. Douglas proposed popular sovereignty. - A vote in Kansas makes slavery legal. - Franklin Pierce becomes president. - The Kansas-Nebraska Act is passed.

Florida

Which of these was the third state to secede from the Union?

Republican Party

Which party did the Antislavery Whigs, Democrats, and Free-Soilers join together to form?

border ruffians

Which term refers to pro-slavery activists who crossed the Kansas border to vote?

South Carolina

Which was the first state to secede from the Union?

Republican

White Southerners feared that the 1860 victories by Lincoln's ____________ Party would result in slave revolts.

John Brown

Who led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?

David Wilmot

Who proposed banning slavery in any lands acquired from Mexico, and the South opposed his plan?

Dred Scott

Who was sold as a slave to a doctor, moved with the doctor, lived in a free country, and thought he should be free.

Stephen A. Douglas, Stephen Douglas

Who was the Democratic senator from Illinois in 1858?

Abraham Lincoln

Who was the Republican that ran against Stephen A. Douglas?

John C. Calhoun, John Calhoun

Who was the Senator of South Carolina and argued that neither Congress nor any other territorial government could ban or regulate slavery?

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, Roger B. Taney, Roger Taney

Who was the Supreme Court justice who wrote the Court's opinion?

Dred Scott

Who was the enslaved African American whose suit for freedom reached the U.S. Supreme Court?

Jefferson Davis

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

border ruffians

Who were armed gangs who crossed the border from Missouri just to vote in Kansas' first election so they could make slavery legal.

James Buchanan

Who won the presidential election of 1856?

Union Constitution

fill in definition later

John Brown

violent abolitionist

Bleeding Kansas

An antislavery group setting up a rival government when slavery was made legal in Kansas, both sides being armed, slavery supporters in Lawrence, and the retaliation killings by Brown, were the events that led to newspapers calling it "_______ ___________"

Texas

An issue in the election of 1844 was the annexation of ____.

the greatest crime

Antislavery groups called the result of the Dred Scott case "______ ______________ _________" ever committed in the nation's courts.

false

Armed pro-slavery supporters who crossed the border from Missouri to vote were called Kansas Crusaders.

fully equal

Douglas accused that Lincoln wanted African Americans to be _______ __________ to whites.

two, 2

Each state had how many votes in the Senate?

populous

Even though his name was not on the ballot in most Southern states, Lincoln was elected U.S. president because the North was more ____________.

president of the United States

In 1853, Franklin Pierce became ____.

Kansas

In which state did rival pro-slavery and antislavery governments exist at the same time?

true

John Brown believed that slavery should be illegal in all states.

Harpers Ferry, Virginia

John Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal at ____.

Southern Democrat

John C. Breckinridge belonged to which political party?

three

Lincoln and _______ other candidates ran for president in 1860.

1858

Lincoln was largely unknown before which year's election?

Underground Railroad

People who were part of what helped runaway slaves get to freedom?

banned slavery in lands acquired from Mexico

Southerners did not support the Wilmot Proviso because it ____.

Northern Democrat

Stephen A. Douglas belonged to which political party?

Popular Sovereignty

Stephen A. Douglas's plan to let each territory vote on slavery was called ____.

presidential candidates did not address slavery

The Free-Soil Party was established in 1848 because ____.

slavery

The issue of ___________ created a break in the Democratic Party during the 1860 presidential election.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

This act put the issue of slavery to popular vote

Fugitive Slave Act

According to which law could a person be fined or imprisoned for helping a runaway slave?

secession

After the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency, The Southern states debated the question of __________________, or withdrawing from the Union.


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