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Chapter 21 Questions–The Sectional Crisis–Part 1
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1. Unit 5 consists of Chapters 21, 22, and 23. What is the name of the unit, and what years does it cover?

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2. What is a proviso?

3. What is the Wilmot Proviso?

4. On the issue of slavery, the Whig party (which produced President Zachary Taylor), was mixed. But the ____ Party was completely anti-slavery.

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5. According to the Compromise of 1850, ____ would be admitted as a free state.

6. In new states, popular sovereignty would decide whether the state was to become a free state or a slavery state? Explain.

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7. According to the Fugitive Slave Act, Northern citizens were expected to do what?

8. Some Northern whites practiced civil disobedience, which means what?

9. “Civil Disobedience” is also the title of an essay written by ____.

10. The novel that turned the topic of abolition into a household discussion was ____ by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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11. Senator Stephen A. Douglas proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. How would the issue of slavery be decided in these two states?

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12. During the territorial elections in Kansas, the pro-slavery Missouri residents who crossed the border to vote illegally were known as ____.

13. What does it mean “to sack” something?

14. In response to the Sack of Lawrence, abolitionist John Brown led the ____ Massacre of pro-slavery Kansans.

15. Because of all the violence in Kansas, the territory became known as “____ Kansas.”

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16. The new anti-slavery party that formed was the ____ Party.

17. The new President was ____, a member of the Democratic Party.


answer like a 12 year old but correctly

Answer 1

1. Unit 5: The Sectional Crisis, 1848–1861

2. A proviso is a condition or clause added to a law that says something specific must happen.

3. The Wilmot Proviso was a proposed rule (by David Wilmot) to ban slavery in any land the U.S. got from Mexico.

4. Free-Soil Party

5. California

6. It would be decided by popular sovereignty — the people who lived in the new territory would vote to choose whether it would be a free state or a slave state.

7. They were expected to help catch and return escaped enslaved people and obey the law, even if they opposed slavery.

8. Civil disobedience means peacefully refusing to obey a law you think is unfair, as a form of protest.

9. Henry David Thoreau

10. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

11. By popular sovereignty — the settlers in Kansas and Nebraska would vote to decide if slavery would be allowed.

12. Border Ruffians

13. To sack something means to attack, loot, and destroy a town or place.

14. the Pottawatomie Massacre

15. “Bleeding Kansas”

16. the Republican Party

17. Franklin Pierce, a member of the Democratic Party