HISTORY Q3 EXPANSION, CONFLICT & THE CIVIL WAR

first African slaves arrived in Jamestown

1619

Southerners who owned slaves made up of the population

25 percent

wanted slavery abolished

Abolitionists

won 1860 Presidential election

Abraham Lincoln

Clay's plan to end sectionalism

American Plan

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Why would a convicted traitor be glorified?

Because he fought for a popular cause

What event provoked the attack on Senator Summer?

Bleeding Kansas

struggle between proslavery and antislavery groups

Bleeding Kansas

The vice president who resigned to lead the fight against the 1832 tarfiff was:

Calhoun

extend 36° 30' line to California

Crittenden Compromise

sued for his freedom

Dred Scott

Which event of the 1850s did NOT set the stage for the secession of the south?

Election of Lincoln

What northern group was compared to southern slaves?

Factory laborers

surrender began Civil War

Fort Sumter

Published the North Star

Frederick Douglass

Which general did NOT stir the ire of Lincoln?

Grant

Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman

Why was John Brown accused of treason?

He had led an armed attack on Virginia

Why did Nat Turner lead a rebellion?

He wanted to use violence to fight freedom

All the following men, John Breckinridge, John Bell, Stephen Douglas were candidates in the 1860 election expect:

Henry Clay

Why did the south believe Lincoln would free all slaves

His earlier warned of a division over slavery

How would the tariffs affect industrial workers?

It could lessen production and cut jobs.

How did the Doctrine of Nullification uphold the founding principles?

It was based on the people, for the people.

President of the Confederacy

Jefferson Davis

wanted to establish an abolitionist republic

John Brown

Which of the following acts of congress received the strongest Southern support?

Kansas-Nebraska Act

All the following states, North Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas left the Union after the battle of Fort Sumter except:

Kentucky

proslavery constitution in Kansas

Lecompton Fraud

All the following states, Georgia Louisiana, Texas seceded from the Union after Lincoln's election except:

Missouri

formed to prevent spread of slavery

Republican Party

What impact did the cotton gin have upon the South?

Slavery became profitable in the South

How was a slave more profitable than an indentured servant?

Slaves were a permanent labor while indentured servants were only for a few years.

Why did such a small percentage of southerners have large slave holdings?

Slaves were an expensive commodity

What was the connection between slaves and the economy?

Some felt cotton production could not be maintained without slave labor.

Proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Stephen Douglas

What was the most important division concerning trading?

Tariffs

The argument that best supports this statement, " The Compromise of 1850 increased sectional didvides

The Compromise of 1850 increased sectional divides because it did not decisively address the issue of slavery.

Why did emancipation societies begin in the south?

The north did not have a slave population with which to deal.

How was the "Bleeding Kansas" resolved?

The territory became a free state

Why did the North favor high tariffs?

To protect northern industries

Kansas-Nebraska Act

a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery

Harper's Ferry, Virginia, John Brown seized the:

arsenal

Where were the northern markets located?

in the U.S. for development

Economic differences between the northern, southern and western states had the biggest effect on

increasing sectionalsim

servitude in exchange for passage to the United States

indentured

What did laws require slave owners to provide for their slaves?

nothing

Allowing settlers in a territory to decide for themselves if they wanted slavery or not was called:

popular sovereignty

The expanding West desired all of the following except

slavery

Why was the country so divided over tariffs, slavery and states' rights?

they promoted their regional interests.

In the North, the Dred Scott decision was:

unpopular