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US Studies Ch 15
Owen's Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country is called what? | Sectionalism |
| The plan that preserved the balanced slave and free states in the Senate was what? | Missouri Compromise |
| The main issue in the presidential election of 1844 was what? | The annexation of Texas |
| Who proposed that neither Congress nor local governments had the authority to ban slavery from a territory? | John C. Calhoun |
| President Millard Filmore persuaded several Whig representatives to not cast votes or to what? | Abstain |
| Which state was a free state? | Maine |
| Which state was a slave state? | Missouri |
| What were runaway slaves called? | fugitives |
| To leave the Union means to do what? | secede |
| The law that required all citizens to help catch runaway enslaved people was called what? | The Fugitive Slave Act |
| Which act did Sam Houston predict would "convulse the country from Maine to the Rio Grande"? | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Missourians who traveled in armed groups to cross the border and vote in elections became known as what? | border ruffians |
| Rival proslavery and antislavery governments existed in what state? | Kansas |
| A war between citizens of the same country is what what? | a civil war |
| What bought the freedom of enslaved people? | Antislavery groups |
| What was the boundary of slavery? | 36 degrees 30'N latitude |
| What was allowing the people to decide called? | popular sovereignty |
| What was the fighting between proslavery and antislavery forces called? | Bleeding Kansas |
| Who was a violent abolitionist? | John Brown |
| Antislavery Whigs, Democrats and Free-Soilers joined together to form what? | The Republican Party |
| What Supreme Court decision meant that the Constitution protected slavery? | The Dred Scott case |
| Who believed that slavery was a moral issue? | Abraham Lincoln |
| Which man's death became a rallying point for abolitionists? | John Brown |
| Lincoln was relatively unknown throughout the country before when? | the congressional election of 1858 |
| Who sued for freedom? | Dred Scott |
| Who was the Republican candidate in 1856? | John C. Fremont |
| Who was the Democratic candidate in 1856? | James Buchanan |
| Who was the Know-Nothing candidate in 1856? | Millard Fillmore |
| Who was known as "the Little Giant"? | Stephen A. Douglas |
| The first state to vote to secede was? | South Carolina |
| The first president of the Confederate States of America was who? | Jefferson Davis |
| Southerners justified secession with the theory of what? | states' rights |
| What event marked the beginning of the Civil War? | Fort Sumter shelling |
| The Union captain of Fort Sumter was who? | Abner Doubleday |
| Whose name was not on the Southern ballots? | Abraham Lincoln |
| What is withdrawing from the Union called? | secession |
| Who was the candidate of the Southern Democrats? | John Breckinridge |
| What was formed on February 4, 1861? | The Confederate States of America |
| Who proposed the last-minute compromise? | John Crittenden |
| Who was the Free-Soil Party candidate? | Martin Van Buren |
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