1. Chapter 10 The Union in Peril

2. Who won the World Series last year?
San Francisco Giants

3. True or false: The Dodgers won the world series last year.
False: The Giants won the world series

4. The _____ allowed California to be admitted to the Union as a free state.
Compromise of 1850

5. True or False: Stephen Douglas defeated Abraham Lincoln in 1858

6. The ____ proposed prohibiting slavery in California and other territories acquired from Mexico.
Wilmot Proviso

7. What was the difference between the Northern economy and the Southern economy?
North: more manufacturing
South: based on agriculutre

8. True or False: Abraham Lincoln said secession is illegal but it would be illegal for him to do anything about it.
False: James Buchanan said it.

9. ____ helped over 300 slaves safely flee the South by using a system known as the underground railroad.
Harriet Tubman

10. ____ is famous as the author of a controversial book that depicted slavery as a moral, not just a political struggle.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

11. True or False: The Whig party was dissolved after the Compromise of 1850
False: Dissolved after Kansas-Nebraska

12. When ____ proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act the bill sparked a bitter debate in Congress.
Stephen Douglas

13. Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act would repeal ____
The Missouri Compromise

14. True or False: Stephen Douglas wanted to build a transcontinental railroad through a southern route.
False: Northern route

15. The belief that states can leave the union is known as the principle of ____
Secession

16. True or False: The Republican party was founded based on opposition to the Mexican American War
False: opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act

17. Stephen Douglas believed that the only democratic way to deal with the slavery issue was through ___.
Popular sovereignty

18. Hoping to spark a general slave uprising ____ led a raid on a federal arsenal in Harper’s Ferry.
John Brown

19. The ____ was formed in February of 1861 in response to Lincoln’s election.
Confederacy/Confederate States of America

20. In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, ___ accused ___ of being an abolitionist and a supporter of racial equality.
Douglas, Lincoln

21. Douglas argued that “slavery cannot exist…anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations. This became known as ____
The Freeport Doctrine

22. ____ was the first state to secede after Lincoln was elected President
South Carolina

23. President Buchanan endorsed the _______ because it would make Kansas a slave state
Lecompton Constitution

24. Northerners who objected to slavery’s imapct on free white workers and opposed slavery in the territories were known as ____
Free soilers

25. True or False: The Dred Scott decision ruled that slavery would not be allowed in all future territories.
False: ruled slavery would be allowed in all territories

26. Nine Northern states passed ___ forbidding the imprisonment of runaway slaves.
Personal liberty laws

27. The actions of ____ at Pottawatomie Creek triggered dozens of violent incidents and led to Bleeding Kansas.
John Brown

28. ___ was based on feelings of mistrust directed towards the increasing number of immigrants and Catholics
Know-Nothing Party

29. The ___ included a more effective law requiring people in free states to return fugitive slaves
Compromise of 1850

30. According to the ___ congress could not forbid slavery in any territory because it would interfere with a slaver-holder’s right to own property
Dred Scott Decision/Supreme Court

31. President ___ opposed a compromise measure in 1850
President ___ opposed a compromise measure in He died and was replaced by ___ who supported a compromise.
Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore

32. True or False: The Compromise of 1850 gave New Mexico land that was disputed with Texas

33. True or False: After the Kansas-Nebraska Act it was assumed that Nebraska would be a slave territory and Kansas a free territory.
False: Kansas would have slaves, Nebraska would be free

34. What U.S. Senator originally proposed the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay

35. In the Dred Scott case the Supreme Court ruled ____ unconstitutional.
Missouri Compromise