eQuizShow
Chapter 15 Test
John Brown/Dred Scott
Question: Who may have considered John Brown a hero?
Answer: Abolitionists
Question: Where was the US arsenal located at that he tried to capture in hopes of citing a slave rebellion?(city and state)
Answer: Harper's Ferry, Va
Question: What group of people would have considered John Brown a crazy murderer?
Answer: Southern planters; slave owners
Question: What was a major effect of the 1857 Dred Scott court ruling?
Answer: Northerners were angered because the decision could extend slavery into the territories.
Question: DAILY DOUBLE!!
The Dred Scott ruling said that:
Answer: Slaves were property and could be taken anywhere.
Slavery
Question: Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?(the whole name)
Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Question: DAILY DOUBLE!!
What was the first territory to shed blood over slavery?
Answer: Kansas
Question: What is the significance of "Bleeding Kansas"?
Answer: It foreshadowed the Civil War.
Question: This proposal outlawed slavery in any territory of the US that was acquired from Mexico. It never became a law.
Answer: Wilmot Proviso
Question: Most Southern whites were.....
Answer: poor farmers that owned no slaves
LIncoln
Question: What political party was Lincoln from?
Answer: Republican
Question: While running for the office in the Senate, who did Lincoln debate with?(full name)
Answer: Stephen Douglas
Question: Lincoln's message to the South in his Inauguration speech was forceful and direct. True or False?
Answer: False
Question: Why did Southern states withdraw after Lincoln became President of the US?
Answer: Southerners feared Republicans would abolish slavery.
Question: What was the major controversy in US politics between 1850-1860?
Answer: expansion of slavery
Misc.
Question: Southerners justified secession with the theory of ____________.
Answer: States' rights
Question: The Compromise of 1850 admitted what state as free?
Answer: California
Question: The President of the Confederacy is _____________ and the President of the Union is __________. (Full names needed)
Answer: Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln
Question: What was the first Southern state to leave the Union?
Answer: South Carolina
Question: DAILY DOUBLE!! True or False
The Compromise of 1850 stated that slavery was to be abolished in all territories west of the Mississippi River.
Answer: False
Politics
Question: Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?
Answer: Henry Clay
Question: What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act call for?
Answer: residents of Kansas and Nebraska to vote on the issue of slavery
Question: true or false
The North relied more on imports than the South.
Answer: False
Question: What was the Crittenden Plan?
Answer: a plan to bring the Confederate states back to the Union.
Question:
DOUBLE POINTS!! How were the California gold rush and the debate over slavery connected?
Answer: The gold rush led to a rapid increase in California's population and then it requested admission as a free state.