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