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Causes of the Civil
VRMS 8th Grade Social Studies CH 15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is it called when the people in a region decide an issue? | popular sovereignty |
| Did southerners favor or oppose the Fugitive Slave Act? | favor |
| What were southerners afraid that the Republican Party (and Lincoln) would do once Lincoln became President? | ban slavery |
| What town did John Brown lead an attack of to attempt to start a slave rebellion? | Harpers Ferry |
| What compromise allowed congress to pass the Fugitive Slave Act? | Compromise of 1850 |
| How did southerners view Uncle Tom’s Cabin? | felt it gave an unfair and unrealistic view of slavery in the south |
| Where were Lincoln’s views on slavery clearly shown? | Lincoln-Douglass Debates |
| What is a platform? | A political party's beliefs |
| What was the Wilmot Proviso? | a law that attempted to ban slavery in any territory gained from the war with Mexico |
| What man did Northern Democrats nominate to be President in 1860? | Stephen A. Douglas |
| Why was Dred Scott important? | He was a slave who sued for his freedom but lost, northerners were unhappy about this. |
| What Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ruled on the Dred Scott case? | Roger B. Taney |
| What was the Compromise of 1850? | Bill that settled the controversy over slavery in California and the rest of the territory gained from Mexico |
| What was the free-soil party dedicated to stopping? | Expansion of Slavery |
| What was the Fugitive Slave Law? | A law that allowed escaped slaves in the north to be captured and brought back to the South |
| How did the North react to the Fugitive Slave Law? | Most northereners opposed it and many disobeyed the law. |
| Which prominent Illinois political figure opposed the expansion of slavery in the West? | Lincoln |
| What were the seceded states called after they seceded? | Confederate States of America |
| Who did the confederates nominate as their President after seceding? | Jefferson Davis |
| What was the main export from the South? | Cotton |
| What two people did Northerners rally behind? | Dred Scott and John Brown |
| Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin? | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| What does secede mean? | Break Away |
| The Confederate states were located where? | The South. |
| What was the Crittenden Plan? | A compromise on slavery designed to keep the nation from splitting apart |
| Who created the Compromise of 1850? | Henry Clay |
| This man’s job was to win approval of the Compromise of 1850. | Stephen Douglass |
| What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | Residents of Kansas and Nebraska would vote to decide the issue of slavery |
| What famous explorer was the Republican Party’s first Presidential Candidate? | John C Fremont |
| What radical abolitionist captured the US Arsenal at Harpers Ferry? | John Brown |
| What groups started the Republican Party? | Free-Soilers, Northern Whigs, and Northern Democrats |
| This man was President before Lincoln. | Buchanan |
| These debates catapulted Lincoln to national fame. | Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
| How did Popular Sovereignty affect Kansas? | Many illegal voters came into Kansas to vote for slavery, there were many violent confrontations between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers which led to this territory being called “bleeding Kansas” |
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