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Chapter 16 Quiz
7th Grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wilmot Proviso | states that slavery will not be allowed in the Mexican Cession territories (but does not pass in congress). |
| Compromise of 1850 | California enters as a free state, Fugitive Slave Law is reinstated, the slave trade is banned in Washington D.C, Utah and New Mexico, which will decide the slavery issue through popular soveriegnty (popular vote). |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | repealed the Missouri compromise and allowed popular sovereignty. |
| martyr | someone who gives their life for their beliefs |
| Border Ruffian | Pro-slavery supporters from Kansas (who were crossing the border and voting illegally) |
| Whig | member of John Quincy Adam’s former National Republican party: included many business people, southern planters, and former Federalists. |
| Henry Clay | the architect of the Compromise of 1850, but he will get too sick and Stephen Douglas will help to deliver his speeches in Congress. |
| Fugitive Slave Act | requires northerners and all U.S. citizens to assist slave owners in helping to return runaway slaves. |
| Fort Sumter | a significant Federal Fort that protected the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina |
| John Brown | a radical abolitionist who executed 5 pro-slavery supporters in cold blood. |
| The political party that formed in 1848 to ban slavery in the western territories | Free Soil Party |
| Compromise Henry Clay proposed for admitting Missouri into the Union | Missouri Compromise of 1820 - Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine as a free state. |
| Popular Sovereignty | Gives states the power to decide whether or not they will have slavery. |
| The outcome of the presidential election of 1860 | Abraham Lincoln became president - the first time a Republican had ever been elected. |
| How did the Civil War begin? | The first shots of the Civil War were fired in Fort Sumter where on April 12, 1861 the Confederate forces under the command of PGT Beauregard opened fire. |
| The goals of the Free-Soil Party | The goals of the Free-Soil Party were to prevent slavery from spreading to the new territories. |
| What issue led to the Compromise of 1850 | California entering into the union as a free state led to the compromise. It was needed to maintain the balance of power between free and slave states. |
| Effects of the Missouri Compromise. | It lasted for 30 years and the effects were maintaining a balance and it being used as a model for other compromises. |
| The reaction of northerners to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 | They did not like it and it made them even more opposed to slavery and it spreading West. |
| How were the goals of the Republican party and the Free-Soil party alike | Both opposed slavery |
| How did Abraham Lincoln become popular nationally before he became President? | He ran for Senate in 1858 against Stephen Douglas (even though he lost). |
| Who hated the Dred Scott decision | African-Americans and all abolitionists |
| Historical significance of Fort Sumter, South Carolina | It was a significant Federal Fort that protected the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, and it was the place where the Civil War started. |
| Southerners reaction to Abraham Lincoln’s election | Southerners were very upset by it and felt that they were losing influence, so many Deep South states started to secede from the Union. |
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