Ch. 17 Toward Civil War

How many times was Henry Clay elected to the Senate?

An arsenal is a storage site for weapons

Who was most responsible for the Compromise of 1850?

The president of the Confederacy.

What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

Proslavery groups considered John Brown a martyr

Which settled the issue of slavery in territory gained from Mexico?

What did Senator Douglas suggest as an alternative to the Missouri Compromise?

Border States are...

Which of the following did not join together to form the Republican party?

States that possessed slaves but did not secede from the union

Which group approved of the Dred Scott decision?

What happened at Fort Sumter?

What was used to justify secession?

How many times did Henry Clay run for president?

Which state did not secede from the Union?

The Know-Nothings chose Millard Fillmore as their candidate in the 1856 presidential election.

Lincoln was largely unknown before which election?

The Democrats selected Millard Fillmore as a presidential candidate in 1848.

What does abstain mean?

Lincoln believed the Confederacy to be in rebellion after this:

Who was Jefferson Davis?

A war between citizens of the same country is called...

What did the Wilmot Proviso call for?

the first secede state to ...........................................................?

Who believed no government had the authority to ban slavery from a territory?

included the Fugitive Slave Act

Which was the first state to secede from the Union?

Which event started the Civil War?

What was the trigger that set off the secession in the southern slave states?

Who led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?

Which is related to a Supreme Court case that ruled slavery was protected by the Constitution?

secede

When was the attack on Fort Sumter?

Pro-slavery activists who went to Kansas were called...

Who was a violent opponent of slavery?

What was the capital of the Confederacy?

Which of these was the result of enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act?

The American Party grew quickly due to its anti-immigrant views

Which state had a proslavery and anti-slavery government at the same time?

Lincoln believed slavery was moral

What did Douglas accuse Lincoln of?

John C. Calhoun offered a counter-proposal to the Wilmot Proviso.

Who surrendered at Fort Sumter?

T/F. Lincoln won a majority of the popular vote in 1860.