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Civil War Causes
Causes of the Civil War
Question | Answer |
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What kind of economic base did the North have? | Industrial |
What kind of economic base did the South have? | Agriculture |
Where did the Northerners live? | Urban/Cities |
Where did the Southerners live? | Country/Rural |
What diversity was in the North? | Great deal of diversity |
What diversity was in the South? | Almost no diversity |
What is nullification? | States having the right to rule federal laws unconstitutional, south wanted states to be able to rule a federal law illegal |
What did the southern states want to nullify? | 1. Economic Policy 2. Slavery |
How did Missouri enter the Union? | Slave State |
How did Maine enter the Union? | Free State |
How were slave or free states decided after the Missouri Compromise? | ABove 36 degrees was free below was slave |
How did California enter the Union? | Free State |
How did Utah and New Mexico enter the Union? | They were given popular sovereignty |
What happened in Washington D.C. because of the Compromise of 1850? | Slave trade was abolished |
What to the Compromise of 1850 do to Fugitive slaves? | Strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act which forced escaped slaves to go to Canada instead of the North |
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | Act where both states were given popular sovereignty which lead to the first acts of violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups which was known as Bleeding Kansas |
What was an abolitionist? | Person that was against slavery and wanted to get of it |
What was Harriet Beecher Stowes' book titled and about? | Uncle Tom’s Cabin, it was a fictional story about the life and trials of a slave living on a plantation. It was widespread through the North which helped the people understand the problems with slavery |
Who was Dred Scott and what did he do differently from other slaves? | Dred Scott was a slave who sued his master for his freedom. The case gets to the Supreme Court |
What was the verdict of the Dred Scott Case? | They decided to keep him a slave and said that slaves were property not citizens and could not sue their masters and the master had a right to take his property into any state or property into any state |
What were the Douglas-Lincoln debates? | Lincoln-Douglas Debates *Running for an Illinois Senate seat in 1858 *Traveled around Illinois and debated each other 7 times *Douglas favored popular sovereignty |
What happened to Lincoln after the election? | Lincoln lost the election but the debates gave him national fame and the Republican party choose Lincoln as their presidential candidate for 1860 |
What was the result of the 1860 election? | Lincoln only received less than 40% of the popular vote, however he won the electoral college with 180 |
What did the election show the South? | This election showed the South how little political power they had because Lincoln had not won a single Southern state yet still became president |
What party was Abraham Lincoln? | Republican |
What Party was Stephen Douglas? | Democratic, North |
What party was John Breckinridge? | Democratic, South |
What party was John Bell? | Constitutional Union |
What is popular sovereignty? | It says that the states could choose for themselves (free or slave) |
How did Kansas and Nebraska decide if they would be free or slave states? | They decided by popular sovereignty |