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