Quiz

1. Wilmot Proviso______
2. Freeport Doctrine______
3. Compromise of 1850______
4. Calhoun Resolution______
5. The Know-Nothings______
6. The Republican Party______
7. Jefferson Davis______
8. John Brown______
9. John Bell______
10. John Breckinridge______


A. The first president of the Confederacy
B. The 1860 nominee for the Constitutional Union Party
C. The 1860 nominee of the Southern Democrats.
D. The radical abolitionist who led a raid on Harpers Ferry.
E. Otherwise known as the “American Party” this group arose in response to an increase in European immigration during the 1840s.
F. The successor to the Whig Party; Abraham Lincoln’s Party
G. Henry Clay’s attempt at calming tensions between the North and South.
H. An 1846 amendment to an appropriations bill that called for lands won from Mexico to become Free States; the amendment became a rallying point for anti-slavery forces.
I. Arguments made in 1847 in response to David Wilmot, asserting that only states could determine their stance on slavery, not the federal government.
J. Stephen Douglas’s belief that a territory could prohibit slavery by refusing to adopt laws establishing and protecting it.