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Chapter 15
Section 1
Question: How many square miles did the US gained after the Mexican-American War?
Answer: More than 500,000 square mile
Question: What caused rapid population in California?
Answer: The California gold rush
Question: What was the compromise of 1850?
Answer: California would enter the union as free state and the Mexican cession would be me federal state and popular sovereignty would decide whether on slavery.
Question: What was the Fugitive Soave act?
Answer: Made it a crime to help runaway slaves
Question: What would happen to people that help slaves escape?
Answer: Six months in jail and $1000 fine
Section 2
Question: How many candidates emerged in 1852 for democratic presidential nomination
Answer: 4 candidates
Question: What did Brown do?
Answer: He killed five men
Question: What was the Kansas Nebraska Act?
Answer: A plan that would divide the remainder and f the Louisiana Purchase into two territories-Kansas and Nebraska-and allow the people in each territory to decide on the question of slavery.
Question: When were the elections for Kansa held?
Answer: March 1855
Question: Who beat Sumner with a walking cane?
Answer: Preston Brooks
Section 3
Question: What is the Republican Party?
Answer: A political party united against spread of slavery in the West
Question: How many states did Buchanan won out of 15?
Answer: 14 states out there do 15
Question: Who was Dred Scott?
Answer: The slave of Dr. John Emerson
Question: How many years later did Scott’s case reached court?
Answer: 11 years later
Question: What did Roger B. Taney?
Answer: He wrote the majority opinion in the Dred Scott decision.
Section 4
Question: What did John Brown wanted the start?
Answer: A slave rebellion
Question: How many men did his army had?
Answer: 20 men
Question: What was Brown’s penalty for treason and murder?
Answer: He received death sentence.
Question: Who won the elections of 1860?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Question: Why did the southern states secede?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln wanted to end slave
Vocabulary
Question: What is secede?
Answer: To formally withdraw- from the Union
Question: What is sectionalism?
Answer: Favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country
Question: What is the Free- Soil Party?
Answer: Party formed by antislavery northerners which supported Wilmer Prviso
Question: What was the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Answer: Lincoln challenged Douglas in what became the historic Lincoln- Douglas debates
Question: What was the Pottawatomie Massacre?
Answer: Brown and his men killed five pro-slavery men in Kansas