FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT HISTORY CH20 EXAM

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT HISTORY CH20 EXAM

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Question 1: 9. What was the gag rule, and how did it affect his proposal

Answer:

Te gag rule kept Congress from debating slavery for ten years, so Congress refused to consider his proposal.

Question 2: 24. Fugitive Slave Act Key details

Answer:

• Captured runaway slaves had almost no legal rights.
• Anyone caught helping runaway slaves could be jailed.

Question 3: 17. Why did John Brown attempt to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia

Answer:

John Brown wanted to arm slaves and begin a rebellion to end slavery

Question 4: 12. Why did Dred Scott argue that he should be freed from slavery

Answer:

Dred Scott's owner had taken him to Wisconsin, a free state. Scott argued that his stay in a state where slavery was outlawed made him free.

Question 5: 7. John Quincy Adams's diary entry to explain how he felt about the Missouri Compromise

Answer:

He decided to support the Missouri Compromise because he believe it was the best solution to create under the Constitution.

Question 6: 33. How Beating of Senator Sumner pulled the Nation Apart

Answer:

Southerners applauded the attack while Northerners were outraged.

Question 7: 3. Southerner arguments in the debate over Missouri statehood

Answer:

Congress does not have the right to decide if slavery should be allowed in a new state. Te people of that state should decide Question 8: 20. What did Lincoln state about secession in inaugural address on March 4, 1861

Answer:

He appealed to the rebellious Southern states to return in peace.

Question 9: 29. How Kansas-Nebraska Act pulled the Nation Apart

Answer:

Northerners were outraged and feared more territory would be open to slavery.Question 10: 23. Which two people worked together to balance the interests of the North and the South with regard to slavery

Answer:

Daniel Webster and Henry Clay

Question 11: 27. How Uncle Tom's Cabin pulled the Nation Apart

Answer:

The book made millions of people in the North even more angry about slavery.

Question 12: 36. Compromise of 1850.

Answer:

The agreements made in order to admit California int the Union as a free state

Question 13: 31. How Raid on Lawrence, Kansas pulled the Nation Apart

Answer:

Northerners raised money to send more antislavery settlers into the region.Question 14: 22. How most Northerners reacted to the events at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina

Answer:

"Rebels Attack Fort Sumter! War Will Restore the Union!"

Question 15: 1. How the Northwest Ordinance regulated slavery

Answer:

slavery was illegal in states north of the Ohio River and legal in states south of the Ohio River

Question 16: 18. What happened in the South in December 20, 1860

Answer:

South Carolina seceded Question 17: 11. List four details of Henry Clay's plan to end the deadlock over the issue of California statehood

Answer:

• California would be admitted as a free state.
• New Mexico and Utah would be territories open to slavery.
• The slave trade would end in Washington D.C., but slave owners could keep their slaves.
• A strong fugitive slave law would be passed.

Question 18: 26. Uncle Tom's Cabin published Key details

Answer:

• Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this novel after having a vision about the abuses of slavery.
• It was first published in a newspaper and later as a novel.

Question 19: 16. Besides helping Stephen Douglas win the 1858 Senate race in Illinois, what were two other results of the Lincoln-Douglas debates

Answer:

The debates made Abraham Lincoln famous nationwide and brought the moral issue of slavery into sharp focus

Question 20: 19. What happened in the South in February 1861

Answer:

Seven states that have seceded from the Confederate States of America.

Question 21: 21. What was Lincoln appeal to the rebellious Southern states

Answer:

Lincoln stated that secession is wrong and unconstitutional. He appealed to the rebellious Southern states to return in peace.Question 22: 10. Why did Northerners in Congress accept California's application for statehood while Southerners rejected it

Answer:

• Northerners in Congress accepted California's application for statehood
• Southerners rejected it because California had applied as a free state.

Question 23: 30. Raid on Lawrence, Kansas Key details

Answer:

• Pro- and antislavery settlers poured into Kansas to protect their interests in the new territory.
• Proslavery settlers raided and attacked the city of Lawrence, the headquarters of the antislavery

movement in Kansas.

Question 24: 25. How Fugitive Slave Act pulled the Nation Apart

Answer:

Many Northerners openly defied the law, which angered Southerners.

Question 25: 37. Dred Scott decision

Answer:

A supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri compromise was unconstitutional

Question 26: 28. Kansas-Nebraska Act passed Key details

Answer:

• Southerners in Congress agreed to support the bill only if a few changes were made to it.
• The act abolished the Missouri Compromise and allowed the settlers to decide whether to allow

slavery.