Chapter 17 test
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- Who refused to back a slaveholder in 1848?
- Conscience Whigs
- Who was the Know-Nothing candidate in 1856?
- Millard Fillmore
- Who was known as the "Great Compromiser"?
- Henry Clay
- Who debated against Abraham Lincoln ub 1858?
- Stephen A. Douglas
- Who lost the senatorial election in 1858?
- Abraham Lincoln
- Where was the free-soil stronghold?
- Lawrence, Kansas
- Who was elected president in 1856?
- James Buchanan
- Where did the Republican Party start?
- Wisconsin
- What was part of the Compromise of 1850?
- Fugitive Slave Act
- Where was the site of a raid led by John Brown?
- Harpers Ferry
- Most controversies centered around slavery in....
- the new territories
- What event led to a national crisis in 1849-1850?
- California's application for statehood
- The Compromise of 1850 was signed into law by President...
- Millard Fillmore
- Simon Legree and Uncle Tom were characters in...
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
- Stephen A. Douglas
- John Brown and his followers killed proslavery settlers in....
- Kansas
- Charles Sumner made a speech in which he criticized Senator...
- Andrew Buttler
- In a debate at Freeport, Illinois, Lincoln asked Douglas what he thought about...
- the Dred Scott decision
- Abraham Lincoln was elected President in....
- 1860
- In 1859 John Brown and his followers occupied a...
- federal armory
- Why did Southerners think that an attack on slavery was an attack on their way of life??
- Many Southerners believed in tradition, and slavery was a cornerstone of Southern culture and society, and therefore, if slavery was outlawed, their society would crumble.