social studies 16 or something
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.
