Chapter 10 The Union in Peril

Who won the World Series last year?

• San Francisco Giants

True or false: The Dodgers won the world series last year.

• False: The Giants won the world series

The _____ allowed California to be admitted to the Union as a free state.• Compromise of 1850

True or False: Stephen Douglas defeated Abraham Lincoln in 1858• True

The ____ proposed prohibiting slavery in California and other territories

acquired from Mexico.• Wilmot Proviso

What was the difference between the Northern economy and the Southern

economy?• North: more manufacturing• South: based on agriculutre

True or False: Abraham Lincoln said secession is illegal but it would

be illegal for him to do anything about it.

• False: James Buchanan said it.

____ helped over 300 slaves safely flee the South by using a system

known as the underground railroad.

• Harriet Tubman

____ is famous as the author of a controversial book that depicted

slavery as a moral, not just a political struggle.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

True or False: The Whig party was dissolved after the Compromise of

1850

• False: Dissolved after Kansas-Nebraska

When ____ proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act the bill sparked a

bitter debate in Congress.• Stephen Douglas

Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act would repeal ____

• The Missouri Compromise

True or False: Stephen Douglas wanted to build a transcontinental railroad through a southern route.

• False: Northern route

The belief that states can leave the union is known as the principle of

____

• Secession

True or False: The Republican party was founded based on opposition

to the Mexican American War

• False: opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Stephen Douglas believed that the only democratic way to deal with

the slavery issue was through ___.

• Popular sovereignty

Hoping to spark a general slave uprising ____ led a raid on a

federal arsenal in Harper’s Ferry.• John Brown

The ____ was formed in February of 1861 in response to Lincoln’s

election.• Confederacy/Confederate States of America

In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, ___ accused ___ of being an

abolitionist and a supporter of racial equality.

• Douglas, Lincoln

Douglas argued that “slavery cannot exist…anywhere, unless it is

supported by local police regulations. This became known

as ____• The Freeport Doctrine

____ was the first state to secede after Lincoln was elected President• South Carolina

President Buchanan endorsed the _______ because it would make

Kansas a slave state• Lecompton Constitution

Northerners who objected to slavery’s imapct on free white

workers and opposed slavery in the territories were known as ____• Free soilers

True or False: The Dred Scott decision ruled that slavery would

not be allowed in all future territories.

• False: ruled slavery would be allowed in all territories77777777777777777777777777

Nine Northern states passed ___ forbidding the imprisonment of

runaway slaves.• Personal liberty laws

The actions of ____ at Pottawatomie Creek triggered

dozens of violent incidents and led to Bleeding Kansas.

• John Brown

___ was based on feelings of mistrust directed towards the

increasing number of immigrants and Catholics

• Know-Nothing Party

The ___ included a more effective law requiring people in free states

to return fugitive slaves

• Compromise of 1850

According to the ___ congress could not forbid slavery in any

territory because it would interfere with a slaver-holder’s right to own

property• Dred Scott Decision/Supreme Court

President ___ opposed a compromise measure in 1850. He died and was replaced by ___ who

supported a compromise.

• Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore

True or False: The Compromise of 1850 gave New Mexico land that

was disputed with Texas

• True

True or False: After the Kansas-Nebraska Act it was assumed that

Nebraska would be a slave territory and Kansas a free

territory.• False: Kansas would have slaves, Nebraska

would be free

What U.S. Senator originally proposed the Compromise of

1850?

• Henry Clay

In the Dred Scott case the Supreme Court ruled ____ unconstitutional.• Missouri Compromise