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Causes of the CW
Unit 8 AP
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does antebellum mean? | before the war |
| Describe the Northeast | Industrial. 250,000 free blacks |
| Describe the Northwest | Agricultural/ tied to Northeast through Indians wars |
| Where did 2 million immigrants come from? | Ireland (Irish Immigrants) |
| Where did 1 million immigrants come from? | Germany |
| What is nativism? | The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. ANTI-CATHOLIC (in this case) |
| Describe MOST of the south | Most were poor whites 75% who lived away from the rich farmland. |
| What is Sectionalism? | The growing division between north and south from the founding of hte nation until the Civil War |
| What caused the sectionalism that eventually led to hte Civil War? | slavery! |
| Describe how the issues of slavery divided the North and South in the 1840s and 1850s? | 1- the admittance of new territories 2- the enforcement of slave laws 3- in literature 4- in extremist movements 5- in politics |
| What sparked the crisis that led to the Compromise of 1850? | California wanted to become a free state. Radical southerners talked about secession. |
| What does it mean to SECEDE from the Union? | to leave the union |
| Who proposed the Compromise of 1850? | Henry Clay |
| What did the free-soilers want? | They did not want to allow slavery into the Mexican Cession territory |
| What did the southerners want for the Mexican cession territory? | They wanted the Missouri Compromise Line to extend west (so that they could have slaves south of that line) |
| What did Lewis Cass propose? | Popular Sovereignty |
| What is popular sovereignty? | it allowed ht people who settled a territory to decide whether that territory should be slave or free |
| What was proposed in the Compromise of 1850 to satisfy the southerners? | a fugitive slave law |
| Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | Stephen Douglas, of Illinois |
| What did hte Kansas-Nebraska Act suggest? | That popular sovereignty determine the territories of Nebraska and Kansas? |
| What was "Bleeding Kansas" | The name for the fighting which broke out when northerns and southerners rushed to the Kansas-Nebraska territory. |
| Why did Northerners HATE the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | It nullified the Missouri Compromise Line of 1820 (by allowing slavery north of that line) |
| What did the Fugitive Slave Law of 1854 do? | Said escape slaves who made it to the North would be captured and returned to the south. Also, no trial for blacks captured in north. |
| Who was the famous conductor of the Underground Railroad? | Harriet Tubman |
| What was the Underground Railroad? | series of paths/safe places for runaway slaves to hide. |
| What did the Dred Scott Decision determine? | Slaves were property. |
| What did "Uncle Tom's Cabin" say? | It was a book that used stereotypes that all slave owners were horribly cruel. |
| What did "Impending Crisis in the South" say? | It was a book that appealed to whites' self interest. Attacked slavery from economic standpoint. Said slavery impeded industrializiation/development. |
| What did "Cannibals All!" say? | IT said that slavery was good. Under slavery, blacks were protected and slave owners were paternalistic (like fathers) |
| What was the Lecompton Constitution? | It legalized slavery. Gave death to anyone who aided escaped slaves. . |
| What was the Constitution at Topeka? | It made slavery illegal. The Free-soilers elected own legislature because they considered the existing one as "bogus". |
| What happened to Charles Sumner? | He was a Massachusetts senator who was criticising the south. He was attacked and beaten over the head with a cane. |
| What did the Missouri Compromise state? | The Missouri Compromise issued a line at 36'30 that said states north of the line would be free and south of the line would be slave. |
| What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do? | It was created by Stephen Douglas to extend the RR. 1- divided Nebraska territory into 2 parts (kansas and nebraska) 2- repealed the Missouri Compromise because these territories would use popular sovereignty to determine slave/free. |
| What ultimately caused an incurable rift in the Whig party? | The Kansas-Nebraska Act (issue of slavery) |
| With the destruction of the whig party, came the birth of what political party? | the Republican Party |
| Immigrants in the EARLY 1800s (1800-1830) were mostly from what background? | British, Protestant and skilled workers |
| In the 1840s and the 1850s MOST immigrants were of what background? | Irish, Catholic, Unskilled |
| Most immigrants joined what political party? | the Democratic Party |
| What was the major platform of the Know-Nothing Party? | Nativism |
| Who won in the 1856 election? | James Buchanan |
| Who wont he 1860 election? | Abraham Lincoln |
| Who ran in 1860? | Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, Breckenridge |
| What happened in the Dred Scott case? | Mr. Scott was taken by his master to a free state. After 2 years, Scott sued for his freedom. It was determined that slaves were property and could not sue. |
| Who wrote "Cannibals All!" and what was the point of view? | George Fitzhugh, Slavery is good. |
| Free-Labor | the idea that social mobility awaited those industrious laboreres who worked hard and efficiently |
| What was the great enemy of a free-labor socieyt? | slavery |
| Who endorsed the free-laborers? | Republicans |
| What happened in the 1855 territorial election? | Pro-slavery Missourians crossed the border and voted illegally in favor of slavery. |
| What was the point of view in "The impending Crisis of the South" book by Hinton Helper? | Slavery caused economic ignorance |
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