1. Chapter 14 Review

2. Election of Abraham Lincoln
What event most directly led Southern US States seceding from the Union?
Election of Abraham Lincoln

3. Which congressional act admitted Maine into the Union as a free state?
The Missouri Compromise

4. The act of a state withdrawing from the Union is called what?
Seceding or secession

5. Adding states to the union was a process called what?
Annexation

6. Who was the slave that led a revolt against slavery in Virginia in 1831?
Nat Turner

7. The location of the first shots fired in the US Civil War
Fort Sumter, South Carolina

8. A person who was fighting to make slavery illegal was called what?
Abolitionist

9. US Senator from Kentucky who worked to create the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay

10. “Popular sovereignty” was incorporated into which important congressional act?
Kansas-Nebraska Act

11. What university did James K Polk attend?
GO TARHEELS!!!!
BEAT OREGON!!!!

12. Former Slave who challenged slavery in the US Supreme Court
Dred Scott

13. South Carolina Senator who led the effort in the Senate to keep Slavery legal
John C Calhoun

14. The idea of allowing each state to decide for itself whether it would be admitted to the union as a free or slave state was known as what?
Popular Sovereignty

15. Which important Supreme Court Decision upheld slaveholder’s property rights?
Dred Scott v Sandford

16. Virginia town were John Brown seized military arsenal.
Harper’s Ferry

17. Which law repealed the Missouri Compromise?
Kansas-Nebraska Act

18. What was the primary, overall reason the South wanted slavery to continue?
To prevent the southern economy from collapsing

19. Which congressional act created a boundary between free and slave states along the 36”30’ parallel?
Missouri Compromise

20. What was the primary political issue in the United States in the middle 1800s?
Slavery

21. People from what two political parties gave Abraham Lincoln the most support?
Republican and Know Nothing Party

22. Which congressional act was spurred on by the Gold Rush of 1849 in California?
The Compromise of 1850

23. What name was given to the situation in Kansas where outsiders flocked to the state to establish their own government in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Bleeding Kansas

24. The law which required free states to return escaped slaves to their owners was known as what?
The Fugitive Slave Act

25. What was the Know-Nothing’s party stance on slavery?
They were abolitionists

26. What political party was founded in the mid 1800s primarily as an anti immigration party?
The Know Nothings

27. After John Brown seized the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, North Carolinians became suspicious of which abolitionist leader?
Daniel Worth

28. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe