Chapter 16 discovering our past a history of the United States

Lincoln and....................other candidates ran for president in 1860

Three

In Arseal is a storage site for weapons

True

Proslavery groups considered John brown a martyr

True

The know nothings chose Millard Fillmore as their candidate in the 1856 presidential election

True

Even though his name was not on the ballot in most southern states, Lincoln was elected US president because the north was more.....................................

populous

Which event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Attack on Fort Sumter

The Wilmot proviso called for........

Banning slavery in any lands the US acquired from Mexico

Which term refers to Pro- slavery activist who crossed the Kansas border to vote?

Border ruffians

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

Civil War

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

Dred Scott

Abraham Lincoln believed slavery was moral

False

Which was the third state to secede from the union?

Florida

compromise of 1850

Included the fugitive slave act

Who is the first president of the Confederate states of America?

Jefferson Davis

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

John Brown

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

Kansas

Which of these accusations did Douglas make against Lincoln?

Lincoln wanted African Americans to be fully equal to whites

Bleeding Kansas

Name used in the 1856 newspaper stories about events in Lawrence Kansas

What approach did Senator Stephen a Douglas propose as an alternative to the Missouri compromise?

Popular sovereignty

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Put the issue of slavery to the popular vote

White southerners feared that the 1860 victories by Lincolns................................party would result in slave revolts.

Republican

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

Republican Party

Popular sovereignty

Rule by the people

After the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency, the southern states debated the question of ......................................., or withdrawing from the union.

Secession

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

Slavery

Which was the first state to vote to secede from the union?

South Carolina

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

States rights

36° 30 N. latitude

The line that marked the division between slave states and non-slave states

John brown

An abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing Armories in southern territory and giving weapons to slaves, was hung in Harpers Ferry after capturing an Armory

Lincoln was largely unknown before which election?

1858 congressional election