causes of civil war

Question 1

who worked in mills and factories

Answer 1

northerners

Question 2

many immigrants went to the north from Ireland and Germany because of what

Answer 2

the potato famine and failed revolution

Question 3

adults and _______ worked in _________ conditions because there were no what to protect them

Answer 3

children

dangerous

laws

Question 4

northerners began using machines in the cloth making industries and built textile mills along rivers for what

Answer 4

waterpower to run their machines

Question 5

what came around the year 1800 and began in the region of New England

Answer 5

the industrial revolution

Question 6

who invented the cotton gin in 1793 which removed seeds from cotton very quickly. and Alison invented interchangeable parts which made it easier to produce goods

Answer 6

Eli Whitney

Question 7

an economic system that allows competition with little government interference another name for this is free enterprise

Answer 7

capitalism

Question 8

who invented the telegraph

Answer 8

Samuel morse

Question 9

what was an issue that also divided the country? roads and what

Answer 9

canals

Question 10

who supported tariffs

Answer 10

northerners

Question 11

he was from the southern region, believed states have the right to govern themselves, and opposed tariffs

Answer 11

John c Calhoun

Question 12

he was from the northern region, favored tariffs because they protected American industries from foreign competition

Answer 12

Daniel Webster

Question 13

he was from the western region and proposed the American system with tariffs, internal improvements, and a national bank

Answer 13

Henry clay

Question 14

who ruled that the national governments interests come first if there is a conflict between a state government and the national government

Answer 14

Supreme Court

Question 15

trains and what were pulled by steam locomotives connected the Midwest to the east

Answer 15

railroads

Question 16

what used electric signals to transmit messages

Answer 16

telegraph

Question 17

what was the southern law known as that controlled enslaved people

Answer 17

slave codes

Question 18

who were two former slaves who escaped and helped other slaves escape also

Answer 18

Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglas

Question 19

what was a network of “safe houses” that helped slaves escape slavery

Answer 19

the Underground Railroad

Question 20

name some things about slave life

Answer 20

they got whipped and beaten

children got two shirts per year

Question 21

who was the slave who escaped and became an abolitionist, wrote a book about his life as a slave and thanks to him many northerners learned the truth about slavery

Answer 21

Fredrick douglas

Question 22

who made slave revolt laws against slaves get even tougher

Answer 22

nat turner

Question 23

what compromise was it that the happy balance of 11 free states and 11 slave states would be ruined if Missouri became a state there would be more slave states than free and the senators would be unbalanced

Answer 23

the Missouri compromise

Question 24

define sectionalism

Answer 24

loyalty to a region

Question 25

what compromise added a new state, Maine, as a free state to get the happy balance back

Answer 25

the Missouri compromise

Question 26

what banned slavery in any lands that were squired by Mexico

Answer 26

the Wilmer proviso

Question 27

define popular sovereignty

Answer 27

to allow the people to have the power to make decisions in issues that effect them

Question 28

who won the Mexican-American war

Answer 28

the U.S.

Question 29

what political party was against slavery and had the slogan "free soil, free speech, free labor, free man"

Answer 29

the free- soil political party

Question 30

what compromise added California as a free state

Answer 30

the compromise of 1850

Question 31

slaves running away or trying to run away

Answer 31

fugitive slave

Question 32

what compromise banned slave trade in Washington, D.C.

Answer 32

the compromise of 1850

Question 33

what novel was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that tells the story of the life of slaves on a plantation, and becoming the best-selling book of the 19th century. this book caused more northerners to become abolitionists

Answer 33

uncle toms cabin

Question 34

what act made runaway slaves no longer safe in the north because everyone had to help catch the slaves

Answer 34

the fugitive slave act

Question 35

what was the Louisiana territory now called

Answer 35

Kansas- Nebraska act

Question 36

according to the Missouri compromise where were the Kansas- Nebraska acts closed to slavery

Answer 36

north of the line

Question 37

who came up with the plan known as the Kansas- Nebraska act that repealed the Missouri compromise and lands that had been closed to slavery for 34 years were now open to the possibility

Answer 37

Stephen Douglas

Question 38

in 1856 who was making separate governments that went against the real government

Answer 38

anti-slavery groups

Question 39

who destroyed two newspaper offices and killed 5 supporters of slavery and was later hung after starting a revolt against southerners. and what was this later know as

Answer 39

John brown

Question 40

the antis lavers Whigs, antis lavers democrats, and free spoilers came together to form what party

Answer 40

the Republican Party

Question 41

who was the enslaved African American in Missouri who sued for his freedom because he lived in the north where slavery was not allowed

Answer 41

Fred Scott

Question 42

who was the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the dred Scott case

Answer 42

roger b Taney

Question 43

who liked the dred Scott decision

Answer 43

the south

Question 44

who's position on slavery was that it should not spread into the west, was a republican, entered and won the presidential election of 1860 helped by the north

Answer 44

Abraham Lincoln

Question 45

who's position on slavery was that he liked popular sovereignty and won the democrat for senator in Illinois and entered in the presidential election of 1860

Answer 45

Stephen Douglas

Question 46

what two candidates for Illinois senator had several national popular debates

Answer 46

Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln

Question 47

who was the southern democrat who vowed to uphold slavery and was a candidate in the presidential election of 1860

Answer 47

John c Breckinridge

Question 48

who was the candidate in the presidential election of 1860 who was part of the constitutional Union party and wanted to continue to compromise

Answer 48

John bell

Question 49

name the six states that seceded after South Carolina did because they felt threatened of the presidential results

Answer 49

``` Texas Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Florida Georgia ```

Question 50

what country did the first states to secede form and who did they choose as president

Answer 50

confederate states of America Jefferson Davis

Question 51

what was the reason given for them seceding

Answer 51

states rights

Question 52

the spark that started the U.S. civil war was when the confederates chose to open fire on what

Answer 52

fort Sumter

Question 53

the attack on fort Sumter led to 4 more states seceding what were they

Answer 53

Virginia North Carolina Tennessee Arkansas