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Chapter 14 SS
Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Wilmot Proviso was a reaction to what issue? | Allowing slavery in territory gained from the Mex-Amer War would threaten the balance of free and slave states |
| Stephen Douglas is most closely associated with the idea of | Popular Sovereignty |
| Which of the following statesmen wanted to compromise on the issue of slavery? | Henry Clay and Daniel Webster |
| Before the Compromise of 1850, many southern leaders felt that | The South should secede if California were admitted as a free state |
| In 1848 the candidates for President came from which parties | Democrats, Whigs, Free-soil |
| Why was California's admission to the union controversial | It disrupted the balance between free and slave holding states. The south threatened to secede. |
| Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe. She wanted the whole nation to feel what an accursed thing slavery is |
| What political parties ran a candidate in 1848 | Free Soil, Democrats, Whigs |
| What did the south do when Lincoln won the election | 7 states seceded. They felt their way of life was under attack |
| What was the outcome of the Dred Scott decision | Judge Taney favored the slave owner saying Dredd Scott had no right to sue and to restrict slavery was unconstitutional |
| What did Lincolns inaugural address about a house divided mean | That the country couldn't continue on being divided on the slavery issue |
| Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
| Why was Uncle Tom's Cabin written | To expose the evils of slavery |
| What political parties ran a candidate in 1848 | Whigs, Democrats and the Free-Soil party |
| What was the Fugitive Slave Act | It gave southern slave owners the right to accuse any black person in free states of being a runaway slave and obligated northern officials to help return them |
| What was the main issue in the election of 1860 | Slavery was the main dispute. Four candidates. Pro Slavery vote was split between them allowing Lincoln to win the majority of votes. |
| What issues did Lincoln support during his debate with Douglas | Opposition to the Kansas Nebraska Act. Lincoln took a stand against slavery |
| Who made up the Constitutional Union party | Southern democrats originally opposed to slavery. John Bell |
| John Brown | Led a raid on Harpers Ferry. Hoped to provoke a slave revolt. Failed. Was hung |
| John C Calhoun | Urged a change of the Constitution to protect states rights or secession |
| Henry Clay | The great compromiser. Worked out the Missouri Compromise. Advocated letting California join the union as a free state. |
| Which state used popular sovereignty to decide whether to allow slavery | Kansas |
| After the Whig party split apart which political party did many northern Whigs join | Free Soil Party |
| What happened first John Brown attack? Supreme Court decided Dredd Scott? Proslaver and antislavery settler flood Kansas? The Kansas-Nebraska Act | Kansas Nebraska Act passed |
| When Lincoln said "in Your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not mine is the momentous issue of war" to whom was he speaking? | All southerners |
| Disputes over slavery in the 1840s and 1850s resulted in | The formation of new political parties, violence in Kansas, abolition of slavery in Nations capitol |
| After the Whig party split apart, which political party did man northern Whigs join | Republican |
| Disputes over slavery in the 1840s and 50s resulted in | forming new political pareties, violence in Kansas, abolition of slave trade in Capitol |
| What did John Brown hope to accomplish | A slave revolt |
| The Dred Scott decision stated that the US constitution | protected slaveholders not slaves |
| Dred Scott sued his owner because | He lived in two free states |
| What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| What was the Compromise of 1850? | A series of 5 laws designed to please North and South by California being admitted as a free state and banned slave trade in the Capitol. to please the south popular sovereignty would decide slavery issue in Mexican American territory. |
| What was the Wilmot Proviso | Proposition that congress ban slavery in all territory that might become part of the US as a result of Mex-American War |
| Who was Henry Clay | Senator from Kentucky. Proposed ways to save the Union |
| John C Calhoun said if California became a free state there was only two ways to preserve the South's way of life | Secession or a constitutional ammendment |
| The process of allowing people in each state to decide the issue of slavery is called | Popular Soverengnty |
| The Wilmot Proviso proposed | that slavery be banned in all territory gained in the Mex-American war |
| The Free Soil Party's main goal was | To ban slavery in the mex-amer territory |
| What was a very controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 in the North? | The Fugitive Slave Act |
| What was Bleeding Kansas | Violence broke out between pro and anti slavery settlers in the state after they voted to be a proslavery government |
| Why did California's 1849 request for statehood worsen sectional distrust | Its admission of a free state would undo the Missouri Compromise by increasing Northern Power in Congress |
| What were the two major political parties during the 1850s | The Whigs and the Democrats |
| What was the Kansas Nebraska Act | It formed two new territories. Southerners objected because it lay in the area of the Missouri Compromise (states would be free) |
| Who was Dred Scott | A Missouri slave who was taken by his master to live in two free states |
| What was the outcome of the Dred Scott decision | Scotts claims were rejected. Slave holders ownership rights upheld. |
| Who were the candidates in the election of 1860 | Abraham Lincoln, John C Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas |
| What does secede mean | To withdraw from |
| How many states became part of the confederate States of America | eleven. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia Louisiana, Miss, NC, SC, Tennesee, Texas, VA |
| What happened at fort sumter | The South tried to cut off supplies to the fort. Lincoln sent supplies but no troops or guns. The south opened fire and the troops inside surrendered. |
| What was the significance of the battle at Fort Sumter | It marked the beginning of the civil war. |
| Who won the election of 1860 | Lincoln defeated Douglas, Breckinridge and Bell |
| Which state was the first to secede after Lincoln won in 1860 | South Carolina |
| How many states followed South Carolina in secession | seven |
| What did they call the new southern union? | Confederate States of America |
| Who was the president of the Confederate States of America | Jefferson Davis |
| What does Civil War mean | A war between opposing groups of citizens from the same country. |
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