Ch 16 Key Terms - “Slavery Divides the Nation” –Answer Key
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Directions:
1) Column B - Use your book’s chapter sections to write a brief definition for each term.
2) Terms in bold must be defined using context clues in the chapter section.
A- Term
B – Definition
A - Term
B - Definition
1. Missouri Compromise Clay’s plan to admit Missouri as 12. Kansas-Nebraska
Nebraska becomes divided
a slave state and Maine as a free Act
into two territories and
p. 460
p. 468
state
Slavery would be decided
By popular sovereignty
2. Wilmot Proviso
A law to ban slavery in any
13. guerilla warfare
Hit and run tactics
territories won from Mexico
p. 470
(Will-moat Pro-VEE-so)
p. 461
3. Election of 1848 (16.1)
What were the results?
p. 462
4. Free-Soil Party
p. 462
5. secede
p. 463
6. Harriet Beecher Stowe
(16.2) p. 466
7. civil war
Zachary Taylor won the election
but Van Buren took 10% and 13
other Free-soil candidates won
seats in congress
The Free- soil party’s main goal
was to keep slavery out of
western territories. A few were
abolitionist.
14. Dred Scott v.
Sandford
Frederick Douglass’s
reaction to Dred Scott
decision (16.3)
p. 471 - 472
15. Republican Party’
The court ruled that Scott
could not file a lawsuit
because he was a slave
not a citizen. Frederick
Douglass said that slaves
Are property such as horses,
sheep, and swine.
Lincoln and others who
opposed slavery’s political
Party.
Remove yourself or themselves
16. arsenal
p. 476
A gun warehouse
An abolitionist who wrote Uncle
Tom’s Cabin an anti-slavery
novel
17. John Brown’s Raid
(16.4) p.475
Brown’s plan to raid an
arsenal in Harpers Ferry,
Virginia.
A war between the people of the
same country
18. treason
p. 476
Action against one’s
country
See Textbook.
19. martyr
p. 476
Someone willing to die
for their beliefs.
Act that required all citizens to
catch runaway slaves
20. The Election of
1860 (16.5) p. 478
The north out voted the
south and Lincoln
wins the presidency.
Novel that showed the evils of
slavery
21. The “Confederacy”
p. 480
Seven southern states
seceded to form a new
country.
States being united as one
22. Fort Sumter
p. 480
Southern troops fired on
union soldiers starting
Civil War
p. 465
8. Compromise of 1850
(16.2, 5 parts on pg 465)
9. Fugitive Slave Act
p. 465
10. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
p. 466
11. the “Union” (16.2)