Causes of the civil war Q.1 Flashcards
The Doctrine of _________ stated that the individual states did not have to obey Federal laws.
Nullification
Why was being hired out a way for some enslaved people to gain their freedom?
save money earned through their service and could save up to buy their freedom
White Southerns were frequently afraid of the enslaved starting ________
uprisings
What was the most common form of punishment for an enslaved person in the Antebellum South?
whippings
Which man attacked Senator Sumner with a cane
Preston Brooks
The expanding West desired what?
slavery
best explains how language could be a form of resistance for the enslaved?
connected to culture and communicate without being undertood by enslavers
Allowing settlers in a territory to decide for themselves if they wanted slavery or not was called
popular sovereignty
Best describes the Northern reaction to the Dred Scott ruling?
Northerners were concerned about the ruling because they feared that the South would become too powerful
What man was not a candidate in the 1860 election
Henry Clay
What state left the Union after the battle of Fort Sumter
kentucky
What state seceded from the Union after Lincoln’s election:
Missouri
The ________ wanted tariffs to protect its industries.
north
The ________ felt that tariffs would hurt its trade with foreign countries.
south
The states’ rights issue was a question of each states’ relationship to:
The federal government
The Lincoln-Douglas debates occurred when both men were running to be
a senator
What state had its boundaries changed when the eastern counties joined the Confederacy?
virginia
wanted to establish an abolitionist republic
John Brown
sued for his freedom
Dred Scott
Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Clay’s plan to end sectionalism
American Plan
surrender began Civil War
Fort Sumter
won 1860 Presidential election
Abraham Lincoln
proslavery constitution in Kansas
Lecompton Fraud
