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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.