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
