HIstory and Geography 800 Unit 6 Quiz 1

Lesson 2

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Lesson 3

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the Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery above the

36° 30' latitude line in the Louisiana Territory

Lesson 4

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Lesson 5

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Vice-President of the Confederacy

Alexander Stephens

The Great Debate was held in the Senate over the admission of ______ to the Union

California

Preston Brooks attacked Senator ________ because he criticized Senators Douglas and Butler for their support of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Charles Sumner

extend the 36° 30' line to the Pacific Ocean

Crittenden Compromise

recommended the use of violence to gain freedom

David Walker

What stated that if the laws of the federal government are harmful to a state, that state has the right to declare the law null?

Doctrine of Nullification

first shots of the Civil War

Fort Sumter

published the North Star

Frederick Douglass

Select the four candidates in the 1860 election:

John Bell Stephen Douglas John Breckinridge Abraham Lincoln

What were the results of John Brown's raid?

John Brown became an abolitionist martyr. The South feared a Northern plot to start a slave rebellion. A popular song denounced Brown and the deaths he caused.

slaves could be taken into any territory

John C. Calhoun

popular sovereignty

Lewis Cass

The American Colonization Society planned to send freed slaves to:

Liberia

From your study of the Civil War, all of the following states seceded from the Union after the election of Lincoln except:

Maryland

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was repealed the:

Missouri Compromise

led a slave revolt in Virginia

Nat Turner

The North was made up of

New England and the Middle Atlantic it extended from Maine down to the Atlantic

What was included in Lincoln's inaugural address?

No state had a right to leave the Union. Federal posts in the South would be defended. Slavery could continue where it already existed.

The _____ wanted high tariffs to protect its industry.

North

The abolitionists included

Northerners, some white Southerners, and freed runaway slaves

Which of the following resulted from the Dred Scott decision?

Proslavery people were alarmed. Freeing a slave against his master's wishes was ruled to be a violation of due process of law. The Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional. Dred Scott remained a slave. The U.S. Constitution appeared to support slavery.

No one but the ______ objected morally to slavery until the early 1800s.

Quakers

commander of Fort Sumter

Robert Anderson

Bitter confrontations over what issue earned the new Kansas territory the name "Bleeding Kansas"?

Slavery

Why was slavery a paradox?

Slavery was a paradox because in the constitution said that every person had freedom, and the slaves didn't followed that rule.

the Underground Railroad.

The Underground Railroad to created secret stoppings for the slaves to hide multiple stuff, some of that stuff were houses, barns, caves, etc. In short words this was a place to stop and hide from the people who opposed the abolitionist movement.

Why was the North opposed to the cheap sale of land in the West?

They feared that workers from the north would move to the West because in there, the land will be more cheap.

T/F Although Lincoln lost the 1858 election, the Lincoln-Douglas debates won him wide support for the 1860 Presidential election.

True

T/F Calhoun believed that the tariff of 1828 was unconstitutional because the tariff was meant not to raise revenue but to protect one field of industry at the expense of another.

True

T/F Southerners defended slavery by stating that slaves were necessary for economic survival.

True

T/F The tariff of 1828 raised the amount of tax on imported goods to forty-nine cents on every dollar.

True

formed from five western counties

West Virginia

called slave holders criminals

William L. Garrison

Emancipation societies wanted to

abolish slavery

People who opposed slavery were called:

abolitionists

Southern states that did not secede

border states

first to secede from the Union

border states

What was the action of the state of Maryland?

did not secede from the Union

As opposition continued to grow in the South toward the tariff, Congress passed another even higher tariff on

imported goods in 1828

Fearful of slave _____ and every conscious that slavery was being condemned throughout the world, Southerners lived on the defensive

insurrection

did not secede from the Union

seceded from the Union after Fort Sumter

Clay's plan to encourage an end to ________ was called the American Plan.

sectionalism

Which group proved to be more profitable because they were permanent possessions of their master?

slaves

The North opposed to

the building of roads at national expense and the selling of land in the West

indentured servants were used

throughout the colonies

Who is the inventor of the cotton gin?

Eli whitney

The West or Northwest was the land that extended from the

Great Lakes to the Ohio River and from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman

What Lincoln meant when he said: "A house divided against itself cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved--I do not expect the house to fall--but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other."

In this statement Lincoln talked about the chief who's problem was slavery. That statement was his point of view about having a chief who's issue was slavery when there was slaves in the white house. He also stated that this was going to divide the Union of the senate.

President of the Confederacy

Jefferson Davis

Slavery soon proved to be impractical in the _______ but the invention of the cotton gin made it profitable in the _______.

North and South

Northwest Ordinance prohibited slavery in the

Northwest Territory, the land north of the Ohio River and west of the Mississippi River.

extend Missouri Compromise line

President James Polk

The following list, from the Slavery Code of the District of Columbia includes some common regulations accepted throughout the South prior to the Civil War.

Slaves could not own personal property or real estate. Slaves were not allowed to testify in court, except against another slave or freedman. Slaves could not carry weapons or strike any white person, even in self-defense. Slaves were not allowed to visit the homes of white people or freedmen, nor could these people visit slaves in their "quarters." Slaves could not meet in groups unless a white person was present. Slaves could not leave their plantation without permission. Slaves could not accept, possess, or transfer any literature that might provoke a revolt. Slaves were not to be taught to read.

What were the terms of the Compromise of 1850?

Slaves would be freed if they went into the Northeastern states. The slave trade was ended in the North. Popular sovereignty was established for New Mexico and Utah. California was admitted as a free state.

Before the 1830s, more emancipation societies existed in the:

South

The _____ opposed tariffs because it felt tariffs would hurt its foreign trade.

South

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was proposed by:

Stephen Douglas

Why did the South fear admitting California as a free state?

The admission would violate the Constitution Other territories might follow their example Non-slave states would control the Senate

What did the states of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Texas have in common?

They seceded from the Union after the election of Lincoln

no slavery in new territories

Wilmot Proviso

Those who opposed slavery and wished to abolish it were called

abolitionists

The West was the region with

agricultural and rural in nature

Which of the following did the West specifically want?

cheap public land internal improvements at national expense easy bank credit

Emancipation societies wanted to do away with slavery because of their interest in slaves as:

human beings

Because the North depended upon markets within the United States

it favored a strong tariff to protect its industries from foreign competition.

Calhoun resigned from his office as the Vice President to

lead the fight against the tariff as senator from South Carolina

What was included in the 1860 Republican platform?

no slavery in new territories denounced John Brown's raid slavery could continue where it already existed

The south was the region of

plantations and small farms where cotton was "king". Mostly tobacco and sugar were grown

Congress passed a new tariff bill that

raised the amount of the tax to a new high of thirty-six and one-half cents on every dollar's worth of imported goods.

The principal purpose of the ____ party was to prevent the spread of slavery

republican

What was the action of the state of Tennessee?

seceded from the Union after Fort Sumter

John C. Calhoun, the Vice President of the United States, wrote that the tariff was

unconstitutional because the tax was not meant to raise revenue but to protect one field of industry at the expense of the others

sectionalism when

various regions or sections of the country saw their needs and interests becoming more important than the needs and interests of the nation.

The south, in the other hand,

was comprised of the slave states that stretched from Maryland to Texas.

Once again, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster, all grown old and weak, led what has become known as the

" Great Debate"

the news spread throughout the country and around the world, and the gold-seeking

"49ers" rushed to California to find their fortunes.

Lesson 1

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John Brown could best be described as an:

abolitionist

The issue of ________ rights threatened the future of the Union because the relationship between state and federal government was unsettled.

states'

The claims of the slave owners about the

treatment and working conditions of their claves did not always match the reality