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Civil war notes!
notes on the causes of the civil war
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were two ways the north and south differed by the mid-1800's? | north was industrial and a place of commerce,and the south was mostly plantations and farmers. |
| What was the compromise of 1850? | California would be a free state,the rest of the mexican seccion would be a slave territory,Washington D.C. would stop the selling and trading of slaves,and congress would pass harsher fugitive slave laws. |
| What was Henry Clays role in the compromise of 1850? | He crafted the compromise. |
| What was Daniel Websters role in the compromise of 1850? | He supported the compromise. |
| Who authored "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? | Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
| Abraham Lincoln once said,"So you are the little lady who began this great war." To who was he introduced? | Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
| What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | When congress decided to let the people decide by popular soveriegnty if either Kansas or Nebraska would be slave territories. |
| What were the outcomes of the kansas-Nebraska Act? | It scrapped the Missouri Compromise in May 1855 pro-slavery settlers attatcked the anti-slavery town of Lawrence Kansas in an attack called the Sack of Lawrence, and divided the nation even further. |
| Who was the first Presidential candidate of the newly formed Republican Party? | John C. Fremot. |
| What is the Dred Scott case and what consequnces did it have for free blacks? | Dred Scott sued for his freedom, but the supreme court ruled that slaves were not citizens, and could never become citizens. |
| Which states seceded after Lincoln's election in 1860? | South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. |
| How did the states justify leaving the Union? | They said that they had temporarily joined the union, so it was the State's rights to leave the union. |
| Who became president of the Confederate States of America? | Jefferson Davis. |