US history chapter 13

first Republican president

Abraham Lincoln

belief that each territory can decide on the status of slavery within its borders

popular sovereignty

Proslavery forces were responsible for the

sack of Lawrence

a word for leaving the Union

secession

What event caused the lower South to secede

the election of Lincoln

According to Lincoln, what was at the heart of his debate with Douglas

the immorality of slavery

former slave who was denied any rights as a citizen

Dred Scott

True:False; Abolitionists were primarily responsible for the violence in "Bleeding Kansas"

False

True:False; Abraham Lincoln believed Congress should abolish slavery from the South

False

True:False; By 1860 nearly half of all white Southerners owned slaves

False

True:False; Chief Justice Taney claimed the Constitution recognized free blacks as citizens

False

Where was the first shot fired in the Civil War

Fort Sumter

Democratic president (1853-57) who supported compromise on slavery

Franklin Pierce

Which provision of the Compromise of 1850 actually worsened tensions between the North and the South

Fugitive Slave Law

What federal arsenal was attacked in 1859 in hopes of sparking a slave revolt

Harper's Ferry

last Democratic, procompromise president (1857-67) before the Civil War

James Buchanan

president of the Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis

Constitutional Union candiate in the crucial election in 1860

John Bell

Fanatical antislavery terrorist

John Brown

Southern Democratic candidate in the crucial election of 1860

John C. Breckinridge

Southern spokesman for slavery in the territories

John C. Calhoun

war hero and the first Republican candidate for president

John C. Fremont

failed, last-ditched compromise to save the Union

John J. Crittenden

anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic people

Know-Nothings

What event caused the upper South to secede

Lincoln's call for troops

Southerner who attacked a Northerner in the Senate chamber

Preston Brooks

antislavery and probuisness

Republican

What party became the real successor to the Whig party

Republican party

Supreme Court chief justice who denied that blacks had the rights of citizenship

Roger Taney

slave revolt

Secret Six

Illionis Senator who scrapped the Missouri Compromise to benefit his state

Stephen A. Douglas

What was the basic position of the Freeport Doctrine

Territories can prohibit slavery by refusing to adopt laws that establish it

What party's slogan was "Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men"

The Free Soil Party

According to Daniel Webster, why was the debate over slavery in the new territories needless

The climate cannot support slavery

True:False; Buchanan was a Pennslyvanian sympathic to the South

True

True:False; Crittenden's compromise failed to pass the Republican-controlled Congress

True

True:False; Southern senators blocked the Wilmot Proviso each time it passed in the House

True

True:False; Thousands of slaves escaped via the Underground Railroad

True

What was probably the most effective propaganda tool for abolition

Uncle Tom's Cabin

war hero and antislavery president who died in office at a crucial time

Zachary Taylor

The three provisions of the Compromise of 1850

admission of California as a free state; abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia; organization of the New Mexico territory without reference to slavery

What party was created in 1860 by conservative Northerners and Southerners who wanted to preserve the Union

constitutional union party

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 they

feared the loss of power in the Senate

radical southerner

fire-eater

California gold rush people

forty-niners

acceptance of slavery in the South, rejection of slavery in the territories

free-soiler

What was the greatest spur to American settlement of California

gold rush

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was introduced to

insure that the transcontinental railroad would benefit Illinois

The Wilmot Proviso said that slavery

must be banned in any territory acquired from Mexico