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Road to Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Kansas-Nebraska Act was different from other compromises because of the method in which the issue of slavery was decided in the new territories. What was this method? | Popular Sovereignty |
| Nullify | When a state cancels or makes invalid a federal law |
| What reason was given in the Dred Scott Decision to justify that slave owners could take their slaves anywhere they wanted? | Slaves were considered property at all times |
| How did the Missouri Compromise settle the balance of power in the US Senate 1820? | Missouri would be admitted as a slave state and Maine would come in as a free state. |
| Why were many southerners angry when Lincoln was elected President in 1860? | Lincoln was against slavery in the western territories and he supported tariffs. |
| A focus on local or regional issues such as slavery | Sectionalism |
| Tariff | a tax on imported goods |
| Why did the South support the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850? | U.S. Marshals were hired to track down escaped slaves. |
| Which novel helped the abolitionist cause by showing the cruelty of slavery? | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Why were John C. Calhoun and other Southerners against the Tariff of 1832? | It caused the price of manufactured goods imported from Europe to rise. |
| Which Compromise brought California into the Union as a free state and outlawed the slave trade in Washington, D.C.? | Compromise of 1850 |
| How did slavery cause an increase in sectionalism? | Differing opinions on the issue split people and political parities into factions. |
| The period before the Civil War | Antebellum |
| What did John C. Calhoun and the Nullifiers believe that eventually led SC to secede? | States had the right to refuse to obey any US law that didn't protect their state. |
| Who was the freed slave who was arrested and executed in Charleston, SC for planning one of the largest slave uprisings in the U.S.? | Denmark Vesey |
| A formal withdrawal of states from a country | Secede |
| People who wanted to end slavery | Abolitionists |
| State's Rights | The belief that the rights of a state are more important than the rights of the nation |
| What caused slavery to spread in the South prior to the Civil War, but not in the North? | The geography of the South made it a good place to grow cotton and large plantations developed. |
| Secessionists | People from SC who favored secession |
| How did the cotton gin affect slavery? | It caused slavery to increase since more slaves were needed to pick cotton to keep up with the speed with which the cotton gin deseeded the cotton. |
| Political concept in which the people of a territory get to decide whether the area would allow slavery or not | Popular Sovereignty |
| Which crop became the South's largest cash crop, or "king crop", during the Antebellum Period | Cotton |
| What ended the nullification controversy between President Andrew Jackson and SC? | Jackson threatened to use the Force Act and send in the military to enforce the tariff and a compromise was reached in which the tariff was gradually lowered. |
| Why did SC call for Major Anderson to surrender his troops at Ft. Sumter? | Anderson and his troops were Union (US) soldiers and Ft. Sumter was in the Confederacy. |
| What caused the debate over the balance between slave states and free states to to intensify during the antebellum period? | Westward expansion |
| What were citizens of SC that favored secession, but only if all the other Southern states would secede together called? | Cooperationists |
| Citizens in SC that wanted to remain part of the Union | Unionists |
| This law allowed for slaves who escaped to the North to be captured and returned to the South | Fugitive Slave Act 1850 |
| John Brown attempted to capture this place in order to start his slave uprising | Harpers Ferry |
| How many states were in the United States before the Missouri Compromise? | 22 |
| What tariff was the breaking point to cause the Nullification Crisis? | Tariff of 1832 |
| How does the war with Mexico expand the United States | The United States received the Mexican Cession and established the border at the Rio Grande River |
| Conflict in the Senate where one Senator beat another | Sumner/Brooks Affair |
| Compromise that brought California in as a Free State | Compromise of 1850 |
| Compromise that made Maine a Free State | Missouri Compromise |
| Compromise that allowed Utah and New Mexico Territories to decide on slavery with Popular Sovereignty | Compromise of 1850 |
| How much of the popular vote did Abraham Lincoln get in the 1860 election? | 40% |
| What was the main reason that Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election? | The Democratic party was split across 3 candidates |
| This individual became famous for fighting against slavery in Kansas by murdering slave owners and supporters | John Brown |
| John C. Calhoun or Andrew Jackson: In favor of Tariffs | Andrew Jackson |
| John C. Calhoun or Andrew Jackson: In favor of Nullification | John C. Calhoun |
| John C. Calhoun or Andrew Jackson: In favor of States Rights | John C. Calhoun |
| John C. Calhoun or Andrew Jackson: In favor of Force Bill | Andrew Jackson |
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