U.S. History Chapter 10

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U.S. HistoryChapter 10

• Lecture Notes

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Sectional Rivalries Renewed

• 1. Proposed amendment to a military
  appropriations Bill that would ban slavery in
  the territory gained from Mexico.
• Wilmot Proviso
• 4. Congressional Compromise that created a new
  Fugitive Slave Law,
• allowed for popular sovereignty in Utah and
  Nevada, and banned the slave trade in
  Washington D.C.
• Compromise of 1850
• 5. Required Federal Agencies to assist in the
  recapture of runaway slaves, invigorated the
  northern abolition movement by exposing
• northerners to the horrors of bounty hunters
  and the realities of slavery.
• Fugitive Slave Law
• 7. Passed by many Northern States, they forbade
  State Agencies from assisting in the recapture
  of runaway slaves, guaranteed accused fugitives
  a trial by jury, and banned imprisonment of
  suspected fugitives.
• Personal Liberty Laws

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Let the People Decide

• 6. Proposed by Stephen A. Douglass, it proposed
  that citizens should have the opportunity to
  vote for or against slavery in their territory.
  Popular Sovereignty
• 11. Best associated with the concept of popular
  sovereignty.
• Stephen A. Douglas
• 15. Nickname for the Kansas Territory that
  resulted from violence related to the vote on
  slavery in that territory.
• Bleeding Kansas12. Proposed statehood for
  the Kansas and Nebraska Territories in order to
  begin construction of the Transcontinental
  Railroad. The Bill authorized the use of
  popular sovereignty to decide the issue of
  slavery in the territories.
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Abolition Revs up

• 8. Network of former slaves and abolitionists
  that assisted fugitives in escaping to the
  north.
• Underground Railroad
• 9. Former slave, she was one of the most famous
  conductors of the Underground Railroad.
• Harriet Tubman
• 10. Published Uncle Toms Cabin in an attempt to
  portray the evil nature of the institution of
  slavery, along with the Fugitive Slave Act
  they boosted activity in the abolition movement.
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• 19. Political party formed on the basis of
  stopping the spread of slavery into the western
  territories.
• Republican Party
• 20. Founder of the Republican Party.
• Horace Greely

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Progress Quiz 13

• 61. Which of the following created a new, tougher
  Fugitive Slave Law that required Federal Agencies
  to assist in the return of runaway slaves?
• A. Missouri Compromise
• B. Slave Trade Compromise
• C. The Great Compromise
• D. The Compromise of 1850
• 62. Which of the following proposed that the
  issue of slavery in the territories be decided by
  a vote of the people?
• A. Impeachment
• B. Popular Sovereignty
• C. Emancipation Proclamation
• D. Monroe Doctrine

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Progress Quiz 13 (cont.)

• 63. Which of the following Acts of Congress
  authorized the use of Popular Sovereignty in the
  territories of Kansas and Nebraska, igniting a
  civil war in the Kansas territory?
• A. Missouri Compromise
• B. Interstate Commerce Act
• C. Kansas-Nebraska Act
• D. Hawley-Smoot Tariff
• 64. Which of the following was a main conductor
  of the Underground Railroad, a network of
  abolitionists that assisted runaway slaves?
• A. Harriet Tubman
• B. Sojourner Truth
• C. Lucretia Mott
• D. Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Progress Quiz 13 (cont.)

• Which of the following wrote Uncle Toms Cabin, a
  novel portraying the evil and immorality of the
  institution of slavery, invigorating the
  abolition movement?
• A. Harriet Tubman
• B. Sojourner Truth
• C. Harriet Beecher Stowe
• D. Helen Hunt Jackson

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Progress Quiz 13 Answers

• D
• B
• C
• A
• C
• Any Questions?

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Abolition turns violent

• 16. Savagely beaten by Representative Preston
  Brooks on the floor of the United States Senate
  for anti-slavery comments he made in a speech.
• Charles Sumner
• 13. Murder of slave owners by a group led by John
  Brown, a radical abolitionist who believed he
  was on a mission from God to end slavery.
• Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
• 14. Radical Abolitionist that murdered numerous
  slave owners at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas. He
  later led a raid on a Federal Arsenal in
  Virginia hoping to spark a regional slave
  revolt.
• John Brown
• 27. Federal Arsenal (weapons storage facility) in
  Virginia, site of a raid led by John Brown
  intended to spark a slave revolt, Brown was
  captured and hung for treason against the state
  of Virginia.
• Harpers Ferry
• 28. Led the Federal troops that captured John
  Brown, was offered command of the Union Army
  after secession began, and later was named
  commander of the Confederate Army after Virginia
  seceded
• Robert E. Lee

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Abolition goes to Court

• 22. Slave from Missouri who sued his owner on
  the grounds that he should be free according to
  the Missouri Compromise. He had lived on free
  soil in Illinois for short period of time.
• Dred Scott
• 23. Supreme Court Decision that ruled the
  Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and stated
  that Dred Scott had no right to sue in Federal
  Court because he, nor any slave, was not a
  citizen of the United States.
• Dred Scott v. Sanford

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Politics of Slavery

• 21. Won the election of 1856, his do-nothing
  approach to the slavery issue resulted in war as
  the only option to reach resolution on the
  issue.
• James Buchanon
• 24. Republican Candidate for the Illinois Senate
  in 1858, he argued that slavery was immoral and
  that stopping its spread would lead to its end.
• Abraham Lincoln
• 25. Series of celebrated debates between Abraham
  Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglass prior to the
  1858 Senatorial election in Illinois, they
  centered on the issue of how to deal with the
  slavery issue.
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates
• 26. Stated that slavery could only exist if
  legislation was in place to support it, if a
  territory wanted to do away with slavery it just
  needed to elect officials who would not enforce
  slavery regulations
• Freeport Doctrine

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Progress Quiz 14

• 66. Which of the following was a radical
  abolitionist who believed he was sent by God to
  end slavery in America, he made the statement
  the crimes of this guilty land will be purged
  only through blood?
• A. John Brown
• B. Robert E. Lee
• C. Abraham Lincoln
• D. Frederick Douglass
• 67. Which of the following led to the formation
  of Confederate militias in the Southern States
  and ensured that war was imminent?
• A. The Compromise of 1850
• B. The Mexican War
• C. The Missouri Compromise
• D. The Harpers Ferry Raid

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Progress Quiz 14 (cont.)

• 68. Which of the following was a slave who sued
  his master for freedom on the grounds that he had
  lived on free soil according to the Missouri
  Compromise?
• A. Sojourner Truth
• B. Frederick Douglass
• C. Nat Turner
• D. Dred Scott
• 69. Which of the following ruined Stephen
  Douglass political future and ignited the
  firestorm over slavery in the territories?
• A. Monroe Doctrine
• B. Freeport Doctrine
• C. Truman Doctrine
• D. Eisenhower Doctrine

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Progress Quiz 14 (Cont.)

• Which of the following promised, as Republican
  candidate for the Illinois Senate seat, that he
  would support measures that would stop the spread
  of slavery to the west?
• A. Stephen Douglass
• B. Franklin Pierce
• C. Abraham Lincoln
• D. James Buchanon

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Progress Quiz 14 Answers

• A
• D
• D
• B
• C
• Any Questions?

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California complicates things

• 2. Skipped the territorial stage of admission to
  the union and became a state as the result of the
  Gold Rush of 1849.
• California

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Other issues facing the nation

• 17. Belief that native-born Americans are
  superior to immigrants, particularly the Irish
  and Eastern Europeans.
• Nativism
• 18. Originally a secret society, this political
  party was based on nativism.
• Know-Nothing Party

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The Catalyst

• 29. Won the election of 1860, his victory
  sparked the secession of seven southern states,
  forming the Confederate States of America.
• Abraham Lincoln

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Beginning of the Civil War

• 3. Means to withdraw, or separate, from the
  Union.
• Secession
• 30. Named the first President of the
  Confederacy.
• Jefferson Davis

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Progress Quiz 15

• 71. Which of the following was based on the
  belief that native born Americans should have
  greater rights and freedoms than immigrants, the
  basis of the Know-Nothing Party?
• A. Imperialism
• B. Militarism
• C. Cultural Pluralism
• D. Nativism
• 72. The election of which of the following U.S.
  Presidents sparked the secession of seven
  southern states because of his promise to stop
  the spread of slavery?
• A. Franklin Pierce
• B. Abraham Lincoln
• C. James Buchanan
• D. Andrew Johnson

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Progress Quiz 15 (cont.)

• 73. Which of the following states skipped the
  territorial phase of the statehood process due to
  the population explosion that resulted from the
  discovery of gold in 1849?
• A. Texas
• B. Florida
• C. California
• D. Oregon

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Progress Quiz 15 (cont.)

• 74. Which of the following terms means to
  withdraw from the Union, the path taken by the
  southern states after the election of Abraham
  Lincoln?
• A. Secession
• B. Appeasement
• C. Annexation
• D. Assimilation
• 75. Which of the following lives in infamy as the
  only President of the Confederate States of
  America, serving in the role during the Civil
  War?
• A. Abraham Lincoln
• B. Jefferson Davis
• C. Robert E. Lee
• D. Ulysses S. Grant

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Progress Quiz 15 Answers

• D
• B
• C
• A
• B
• Any Questions?