Chapter 16: Towards Civil War

Which of these concerned slavery in lands the United States acquired from Mexico?

Who first rose to national prominence during the Illinois Senate race of 1858?

What was the illegal network that was established in defiance of the Fugitive Slave Act?

Who was the Kentucky senator who proposed a series of amendments to save the Union?

The territory of the United States did not expand at all during the mid-1800s.

President Fillmore supported the Compromise of 1850.

Public debate about slavery arose suddenly in the United States in 1820.

After the Lincoln-Douglas debates, who was elected as an Illinois senator?

Who was a violent opponent of slavery?

Voting in the 1860 presidential election followed rigid sectional lines.

Southern states justified leaving the union with the notion of

Which of these was part of the Compromise of 1850?

Stephen A. Douglas’s approach to the slavery question was known as

Douglas lost support in the South due to which doctrine?

Some questioned whether Dred Scott even had the right to seek his freedom in court.

A martyr is someone who dies for a cause.

In 1854 the Democratic Party became the Republican Party.

Whose votes swung the 1856 election in favor of James Buchanan?

The law that called for imprisonment or fines for helping an enslaved person was called the

Which Supreme Court decision ruled that enslaved persons were property?

A key issue during the 1844 elections was the annexation of which state?

In which state did the Civil War begin?

Florida became a state in 1845, the same year Texas did.