American Divide
What happened in the White House as a result of disagreements about slavery?
Preston Brooks attacked Charles Sumner after Sumner outwardly displayed hatred for slavery including slave owners (specifically one of Preston Brooks’s family members).
Who wrote both the Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850, and was known as the “Great Compromiser”?
Henry Clay
What court case declared that African Americans did not have citizenship, and the Federal Government could not ban slavery in the United States?
Dred Scott V. Sandford
Who won the election of 1860, and what was the biggest effect of the election?
Abraham Lincoln won the election causing South Carolina to succeed from the Union, and soon after causing the Civil War to begin.
What was the name given to gold miners or panners during the California Gold Rush?
Forty-Niners
What book and author revealed the tough life of slaves, and caused sectional disputes across the country?
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who led an attack on the town of Harpers Ferry, and why did they do it?
John Brown attacked Harpers Ferry to start an armed African American riot in order to fight against slavery.
What was Stephen Douglas’s belief about slavery in the United States and what document did he demonstrate this belief in?
Stephen Douglas believed in popular sovereignty (the people decide) and used this idea in the Kansas-Nebraska act.
What was the north’s least favorite part of The Compromise of 1850?
The fugitive slave act, Washington still keeps their slaves, New Mexico and Utah have popular sovereignty for the choice on slavery.
Where was gold first found in California and what period of time began after this finding?
Gold was found at Sutter’s Mill by James Marshall causing the California Gold Rush.
What period of time started as a result of sectional violence in the newly introduced Kansas territory?
Bleeding Kansas
John Bell (Constitutional Union), Stephen Douglas (Northern Democrat), John Breckinridge (Southern Democrat), and what other person ran for president in the 1860 election?
Abraham Lincoln (Republican)
What was the point of the Lincoln Douglas debates, and what did they reveal?
The debates were meant to determine whether Abraham Lincoln or Stephen Douglas would have a seat in the Illinois Senate. It revealed the strength of Abraham Lincoln as a politician, and the sectional divide in the country.
What south-western piece of land was bought from Mexico by the United States for the price of ten million dollars, and what was it originally bought for?
The Gadsden Purchase land was bought to build a transcontinental railroad, but it was later moved to Sacramento, California.
What did the Wilmot Proviso decide for western lands, and did it get passed?
The Wilmot Proviso said that all western lands would be free of slavery; however, it was not passed in congress due to a tie in the senate.