5 Written Questions

1. law that said you had to return runaway slaves to their owners tension btwn N & S~north opposed slavery and they refused to enforce the law, especially abolitionists
2. southern whites who supported republican policy throught reconstruction
3. A Southerner form Tennessee, as V.P. when Lincoln was killed, he became president. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote. He was a very weak president. Racist.
4. this political group opposed expansion of slavery into western territories
5. 1866 - Prohibited abridgement of rights of blacks or any other citizens.

5 Matching Questions

1. Popular Sovereignty
2. Uncle Tom's Cabin
3. Wilmot Proviso
4. Republican Party
5. Frederick Douglass

1. a Emerged in the 1850s as an antislavery party and consisted of former northern Whigs and antislavery Democrats.
2. b from Kansas-Nebraska act, basically nullified the Missouri Compromise, and would allow Kansas to have a public vote on whether they wanted to be a Free State, or Slave State. It was thought that the few slave-owners in Kansas would be out-voted easily. Slave Owners in Missouri, who were a small minority of the state, were afraid slaves would escape across the border, so they 'immigrated' thier people into Kansas to pad the vote, abolitionists flocked there too, culminating in "Bloody Kansas"
3. c one of the most prominent african american figures in the abolitionist movement. escaped from slavery in maryland. he was a great thinker and speaker. published his own antislavery newspaper called the north star and wrote an autobiography that was published in 1845.
4. d Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853 that highly influenced england's view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict.
5. e Dispute over whether any Mexican territory that America won during the Mexican War should be free or a slave territory. A representative named David Wilmot introduced an amendment stating that any territory acquired from Mexico would be free. This amendment passed the House twice, but failed to ever pass in Senate. The "Wilmot Proviso", as it became known as, became a symbol of how intense dispute over slavery was in the U.S.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. gold discovery in Sutter's Mill in 1848 resulted in huge mass of adventurers in 1849, led to application for statehood, opened question of slavery in the West
   1. Civil Rights Act
   2. California Gold Rush
   3. Carpetbaggers
   4. Conscription/draft
2. founded in the 1860s in the south; meant to control newly freed slaves through threats and violence
   1. Ku Klux Klan
   2. Mexican War
   3. Antietam
   4. King Cotton
3. Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves
   1. Black Codes
   2. Scalawags
   3. King Cotton
   4. Border States
4. abolished slavery
   1. 13th amendment
   2. 14th amendment
   3. Antietam
   4. 15th amendment
5. Forestalled the Civil War by instating the Fugitive Slave Act , banning slave trade in DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting up the Texas territory, and instating popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession
   1. Republic of Texas
   2. Election of 1860
   3. Election of 1852
   4. Compromise of 1850

5 True/False Questions

1. Appomattox → the site of surrender of the Confederate general Lee to Union general Grant in April 1865, marking the end of the Civil War, his surrender prevent several more years of guerilla war, Grant was lenient- the idea of reconciliation not vengeance, the south could keep its horses and the generals could keep their guns

   True        False

2. John Brown's Raid → An attempt by abolitionist John Brown to cause a slave rebellion by seizing a weapons arsenal; however, it failed since no slaver knew about it. Caused south to believe northern abolitionists were all radical and militant.

   True        False

3. Suspension of habeas corpus → BETWEEN: Franklin Pierce (Democrat) and Winfield Scott; RESULTS: WHIG party splits over nomination Fillmore v. Scott; Antislavery North vs. Southern Whigs that disliked Winfield Scott; Doomed Whig Party - Democratic party united under Pierce! Leads to formation of sectional parties instead of national parties. VICTOR: Franklin Pierce (Democrat)

   True        False

4. The Anaconda Strategy → Slave states--Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri--that remained loyal to the Union; the secession of these states would have considerably strengthened the South.

   True        False

5. Tenure of Office Act → Independent nation of Texas, which lasted from 1836 until 1848, when Texas was annexed to the United States

   True        False