US history chapter 13

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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.


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