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Leading to Civil War
VUS.6e
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What war resulted from the conflict between the "free" North and the "slave" South? | The Civil War |
| What type of economy did the Northern states have? | Industrial (factories) |
| What type of taxes did the Northern states want? | Protective Tariffs |
| What are protective tariffs? | Taxes on imports that are so high Americans cannot afford to buy foreign goods |
| What type of economy did the southern states have? | Agricultural (farming) |
| What was the South's position on high protective tariffs? | Against them |
| Who were the Abolitionists? | People who wanted to end slavery immediately |
| Name one important Abolitionist leader. | William Lloyd Garrison |
| What was the name of the anti-slavery newspaper in Boston? | The Liberator |
| Who wrote the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin? | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| What kind of novel was Uncle Tom's Cabin? | Antislavery |
| Who proposed the Missouri Compromise? | Henry Clay |
| What were the 3 parts of the Missouri Compromise? | 1) Maine became a free state 2) Missouri became a slave state 3) 36° 30´ latitude line divided the "free" North from the "slave" South |
| Who proposed the Compromise of 1850? | Henry Clay |
| What were the 4 parts of the Compromise of 1850? | 1) California became a free state. 2) Stronger fugitive slave law 3) New Mexico and Utah territories have popular sovereignty 4) Abolished the slave trade, but not slavery in Washington, D.C. |
| What section of the country hated the Fugitive Slave law? | The North |
| Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | Stephen Douglas |
| What were the 3 parts of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | 1) Created Kansas and Nebraska territories 2) Popular sovereignty would decide slavery in Kansas and Nebraska 3) Repealed the Missouri Compromise |
| Define popular sovereignty. | The people vote on whether they want slavery in their territory. |
| What does it mean to repeal a law? | Get rid of the law; it's no longer a law |
| What were the 2 results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | 1) Bleeding Kansas 2) Republican Party |
| What did the Republican Party believe? | Prohibit (forbid) slavery in the western territories |
| How did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott case? | Declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional |
| What part of the Compromise of 1850 did Northerners hate the most? | The Fugitive Slave law |
| What type of rights did Southerners believe in? | States' Rights |
| What 2 rights did Southerner believe the states possessed? | 1) Right to nullify a federal law 2) Right to secede |
| What did it mean to nullify a federal law? | Void it; Do away with it |
| What did it mean for a state to secede from the Union? | 1) Withdraw from the Union or 2) Leave the Union |
| What 2 slave rebellions took place in Virginia? | 1) Gabriel's Rebellion 2) Nat Turner's Rebellion |
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