Jeopardy - Chapter 14

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Chapter 14 “A Divided Nation”
Ms. Monteiro
Debate over
Slavery
Trouble in
Kansas
Political
Divisions
The Nation
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Grab Bag
Divides
Popular Sovereignty
Idea that political power belongs
to the people
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Wilmot Proviso
A document (which was never
passed by Congress) that said
there would be no slavery
in the Mexican Cession
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Free-Soil Party
Political party formed by antislavery northerners
who supported the Wilmot Proviso
3,1
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Antislavery novel written by
Harriet Beecher Stowe
4,1
Fugitive Slave Act
This law passed by Congress
made it a crime to help runaway slaves
no matter where
they were in the United States
5,1
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Plan that would divide what was left
of the Louisiana Purchase into
two territories – Kansas and Nebraska
and allow the people there to
decide the issue of slavery
1,2
Pottawatomie Massacre
Last event, caused by John Brown,
before Kansas collapsed into
civil war
2,2
Sumner had criticized pro-slavery people in Kansas and
insulted a pro-slavery senator, who was a relative of
Brooks
Why did House of Representatives member
Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner
to the point of unconscious in the U.S. Senate?
3,2
Franklin Pierce
President who won the election
of 1852 because he said
that he would support the
Compromise of 1850 and the
Fugitive Slave Act thus the
Southerners trusted him concerning slavery
4,2
Stephen Douglas
What member of Congress
wanted a railroad to run from
Chicago, Illinois instead of from
New Orleans, Louisiana and
was willing to eliminate the
Missouri Compromise
to get his way
5,2
Republican Party
Name the political party that was started in 1854
by people who were against the spread of slavery
in the West
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
This important Supreme Court
case involved a slave who said that he should be free
because he had lived in
free territory before his master died
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Chief justice Roger B. Taney
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
who said that Dred Scott was not a citizen under
the U.S. Constitution and did not have the right
to sue for his freedom
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Stephen Douglas
Abraham Lincoln became more well-known
as a result of having several debates
about slavery with this man.
4,3
Freeport Doctrine
The idea that the police would enforce the will
of the people even if the will of the people
went against a ruling
of the Supreme Court
5,3
John Brown’s Raid
Incident in which antislavery men took over the
arsenal (place where weapons are stored)
at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in the hope
of starting a slave rebellion
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secession
Word that means
formally withdrawing
from the Union
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South Carolina
First southern state to secede from the
Union
3,4
Confederate States of America (Confederacy)
Name for the southern states that seceded
from the Union
4,4
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederacy
5,4
Compromise of 1850
Name for the compromise that allowed
California to enter the Union as a
free state
4,4
Anthony Burns
Name of the slave,
who was in the north but
forcibly returned to the south,
which caused more
people to become abolitionists
4,4
Antislavery and pro-slavery people had set up separate
governments and were killing each other.
Why was Kansas “bleeding” in 1856?
4,4
Abraham Lincoln
Man who ran for the U.S. Senate
against Stephen Douglas and lost
but gained national recognition
4,4
He was tried and hung
What happened to John Brown after his raid
on Harper’s Ferry?
4,4