Chapter 15 Study Guide

1. Prior to the Civil War the economy of the North depended on industry.

2. Prior to the Civil War the economy of the South depended on the plantation system.

3. The issue of slavery caused tension between the North and the South.

4. The Wilmot Proviso, was an unsuccessful attempt to outlaw slavery in any territory the United States might acquire from the War with Mexico.

5. The Free-Soil Party was a political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery.

6. The Free-Soil Party won more than ten seats in Congress in the election of 1848.

7. Southerners wanted to divide California in half, making the northern half a free state and the southern half a slave state.

8. Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky crafted the Compromise of 1850.

9. As part of the Compromise of 1850, Congress would pass a stronger law to help recapture runaway slaves.

10. Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois was instrumental in helping the Compromise.

11. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel that portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral.

12. The 1850 law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves was called the Fugitive Slave Act.

13. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois suggested that the decision about whether to allow slavery in new territories be settled by popular sovereignty.

14. Proslavery and antislavery settlers rushed into the Kansas Territory to vote for the territorial legislature.

15. Popular sovereignty is a system where the residents vote to decide an issue.

16. The attacking of Lawrence, Kansas by proslavery mob came to be known as the Sack of Lawrence.

17. Onto this explosive scene came John Brown, an extreme abolitionist.

18. John Brown and seven other men avenged the Sack of Lawrence, known as the Pottawatomie Massacre.

19. After the Sack of Lawrence violence continued for three years the territory came to be called "Bleeding Kansas.”

20. Senator Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner over the head with his cane.

21. The creation of the Republican Party grew out of the problems caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

22. The Democrats nominated James Buchanan to run for the presidency in 1856.

23. The Republicans nominated John C. Frémont to run for the presidency in 1856.

24. Know-Nothing Party chose Millard Fillmore, who had been president, for the presidency in 1856.

25. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney said that Dred Scott was not a U.S. citizen.

26. The Lincoln-Douglas debates are now seen as models of political debate.

27. Lincoln believed that it was the national government's role to prevent the expansion of slavery.

28. Stephen A. Douglas thought that the issue of slavery should be settled by popular sovereignty.

29. Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln to challenge Douglas for his U.S. Senate seat.

30. On October 16, 1859, Brown and 18 followers, 13 whites and 5 blacks-captured the Harpers Ferry arsenal.

31. In the Election of 1860 the Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln.

32. In the Election of 1860, Northern Democrats nominated Stephen Douglas.

33. Lincoln won the election of 1860.

34. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union.

35. Jefferson Davis was named the President of the Confederacy.

36. Northerners considered the secession of the Southern states to be unconstitutional.

37. Southerners complained that Northerners intended to use their majority to force the South to abolish slavery.

38. With the states in the lower South forming a new government in Montgomery, Alabama.

39. Senator John J. Crittenden developed a compromise plan to save the Union called The Crittenden Plan.

40. In his First Inaugural Address Lincoln assured the South that he had no intention of abolishing slavery.

41. Know in order the first 16 Presidents of the United States. (Honors)