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Study Guide for Chapter 16– Slavery Divides the Nation
Section 1
The Missouri Compromise addressed slavery in the Louisiana
Purchase. The issue was unresolved in lands that were part of
the Mexican Cession. Abolitionists founded the Free-Soil Party.
Section 2
The balance of power between North and South came to the
forefront again when western territories applied for statehood.
The Compromise of 1850 failed to completely satisfy either side.
Tensions continued to build.
Section 3
Popular sovereignty did not solve the slavery issue in the new
territories. Proslavery and antislavery forces clashed violently in
Kansas. The Dred Scott case further divided North and South.
Section 4
During the 1858 Illinois Senate race, veteran politician Stephan
Douglas and newcomer Abraham Lincoln debated the slavery
issue. John Brown’s raid drove the North and South farther
apart.
Section 5
Seven southern states seceded from the Union after Abraham
Lincoln was elected President. The Confederacy’s attack on Fort
Sumter marked the beginning of the Civil War.
Need to Know!!!
1. Plan proposed by Henry Clay to keep the number of slave and free states equal.
Missouri Compromise
2. Proposed law to ban slavery in lands won from Mexico.
Wilmot Proviso
3. Political party created to keep slavery out of western territories.
Free-Soil party
4. The right of people to create their own government. The people decide!
popular sovereignty
5. Henry Clay’s plan that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and
divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into territories of New Mexico and Utah.
Compromise of 1850
6. Fighting between people of the same country.
civil war
7. To leave or withdraw from a group.
secede
8. A novel that described the evils of slavery
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
9. A runaway slave was called a fugitive.
10.
This law required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves.
Fugitive Slave Act
11.
This was a Supreme Court Case that led to the decision that enslaved people
were not allowed to file lawsuits.
Dred Scott v. Sanford
12.
Proslavery settlers who battled the antislavery forces in Kansas were called
Border Ruffians
13.
Newspapers called the territory “Bleeding Kansas” after violence and
numerous deaths occurred there in 1856.
14.
This was a new political party started by Free-Soilers, northern Democrats,
and antislavery Whigs. (Dominic supports this group) the Republican Party
15.
Who led a raid of the arsenal at Harpers Ferry in hope to lead a slave uprising?
John Brown
16.
This Republican won the presidential election of 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
17.
The first state to secede from the Union.
South Carolina
18.
This man was the president of the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis
19.
Shelled by Confederate troops on April 12, 1861, marked the beginning of
civil war.
Fort Sumter
Chorus from “John Brown’s Body” a folk song:
“John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave,
But his soul goes marching on.”
20.
Which of the following people would have been most likely to sing this song?
An abolitionist