Ch. 15 Terms/People/Dates

A Mr. Hopkins’ Masterpiece

(made by Mr. Holmes!!!)

March 2012

Question 1

A proposed law that would ban slavery in lands from Mexico.

What am I?

Wilmot Proviso

Question 2

Political party founded in 1848 by antislavery Whigs and Democrats

What am I?

Free-Soil Party

Pay attention to the year!

Question 3

I was President of the Confederacy

Wh0 am I?

Jefferson Davis

Question 4

To Withdraw

What am I?

Secede

Question 5

I am the father of the Compromise of 1850.

Who am I?

Henry Clay

Question 6

I am control by the people. The Kansas-Nebraska Act used me as a principle.

What am I?

Popular Sovereignty

Question 7

I am the Chief Justice that ruled in the Dred Scott case.

Who am I?

Roger B. Taney

Question 8

I am a political party’s statement of beliefs.

What am I?

Platform

Question 9

If my slave revolt worked as planned, I would be credited with ending slavery. (Maybe)

Who am I?

John Brown

Question 10

I was the final attempted compromise that attempted to prevent the civil war.

What am i?

Crittenden Plan

Question 11

Political party formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories.

What am I?

Republican Party

Question 12

I wrote a novel about slavery and the Fugitive Slave Act?

Who am I?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 13

Although I did not support slavery, I did not want to abolish it. I however, was against expanding it into new territories. (Also I am a pretty good rapper.)

Who am I?

Abraham Lincoln

Question 14

I was the president before Lincoln who really didn’t do much on the issue on slavery.

Who am I?

James Buchanan

Question 15

I helped pass the compromise of 1850 in the Senate. I also ran against Lincoln for the Presidency.

Who am I?

Stephen A. Douglas

Question 16

I caused Bleeding Kansas.

What am I?

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 17

I am the law that required Northern States to return slaves to Southern States.

What am I?

Fugitive Slave Act

Question 18

I was where John Brown made his final stand.

What am I?

Harper’s Ferry

Question 19

We are the sister country to the United States formed in 1861.

What am I?

Confederate States of America

Question 20

I was the senator from Massachusetts that although I did not love the Compromise of 1850, I supported it for the sake of keeping the Union together.

Who am I?

Daniel Webster