APUSH Easy Test Unit 7

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Act passed in 1854 that violated the Compromise of 1820 and allowed western territories to vote for slave or free states.

Bleeding Kansas

Bloody fighting between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in the new territories.

10th Amendment

Amendment that guarantees state’s rights not expressly given to the federal government.

Topeka and Lecompton

Two competing capitols in the new territories.

Harriet Tubman

Name of the woman who let scores of slaves escape the north to the Underground Railroad.

Nullification Crisis

The previous threat of resistance/secession from the union by South Carolina in the 1830s regarding the issue of federal tariffs.

Bible Riots

Name of the conflicts in Philly in the 40s in which Protestants and Catholics clashed.

Immoral

One argument proposed by Northern pastors against slavery in the 1850s.

Harriet Stowe

Name of the white abolitionist who wrote the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

John Brown

White abolitionist who attempted to insight a slave rebellion in 1859.

Harper’s Ferry

Town in which John Brown’s rebellion was attempted.

Biblically justified

One argument proposed by southern pastors in support of slavery in the 1850s.

The abolition of slavery

The south feared this after the election of 1860.

Compromise of 1850 (It’s not Lord Baltimore of 1813)

Set of agreements in 1850 that settled several sectional issues and reinforced the fugitive slave act.

Dred Scott

Slave that attempted to sue for peace when residing in a northern free state.

-Democrats

-Republicans

Two leading parties in America’s third party system.

George Fitzhugh

American intellectual who advocated for slavery and claimed it was a federal turned (?) wage slave labor factories.

Democratic Party

To which party did most southern Whigs migrate to after 1854.

Know-Nothings

Which new secret American party opposed Irish and German catholic immigrants, along with Chinese immigrants in the 1850s.

Free Soil Party

American party that opposed the expansion of slavery in Western territories.

-Abraham Lincoln

-Stephen Douglas

Two prominent candidates in the election of 1860.

Denied Habeas Corpus

Controversial action that Lincoln took against rebel residence of Baltimore in order to preserve the Union.

South Carolina

First state to secede from the Union in 1860.

Confederate States of America

New country that the south started.

State power

What did the Confederate state constitution explicitly protect

Jefferson Davis

First elected president of the Confederate states

Fort Sumter

Location of the first official attack by rebels on a federal base.

-Better generals

-Defensive position

-Knowledge of terrain

Three advantages enjoyed by the south.

-Industry

-Finances

-Bigger population

Three advantages enjoyed by the north.