Causes of the civil war Q.1

Question 1

The Doctrine of _________ stated that the individual states did not have to obey Federal laws.

Answer 1

Nullification

Question 2

Why was being hired out a way for some enslaved people to gain their freedom?

Answer 2

save money earned through their service and could save up to buy their freedom

Question 3

White Southerns were frequently afraid of the enslaved starting ________

Answer 3

uprisings

Question 4

What was the most common form of punishment for an enslaved person in the Antebellum South?

Answer 4

whippings

Question 5

Which man attacked Senator Sumner with a cane

Answer 5

Preston Brooks

Question 6

The expanding West desired what?

Answer 6

slavery

Question 7

best explains how language could be a form of resistance for the enslaved?

Answer 7

connected to culture and communicate without being undertood by enslavers

Question 8

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

Answer 8

popular sovereignty

Question 9

Best describes the Northern reaction to the Dred Scott ruling?

Answer 9

Northerners were concerned about the ruling because they feared that the South would become too powerful

Question 10

What man was not a candidate in the 1860 election

Answer 10

Henry Clay

Question 11

What state left the Union after the battle of Fort Sumter

Answer 11

kentucky

Question 12

What state seceded from the Union after Lincoln’s election:

Answer 12

Missouri

Question 13

The ________ wanted tariffs to protect its industries.

Answer 13

north

Question 14

The ________ felt that tariffs would hurt its trade with foreign countries.

Answer 14

south

Question 15

The states’ rights issue was a question of each states’ relationship to:

Answer 15

The federal government

Question 16

The Lincoln-Douglas debates occurred when both men were running to be

Answer 16

a senator

Question 17

What state had its boundaries changed when the eastern counties joined the Confederacy?

Answer 17

virginia

Question 18

wanted to establish an abolitionist republic

Answer 18

John Brown

Question 19

sued for his freedom

Answer 19

Dred Scott

Question 20

Underground Railroad

Answer 20

Harriet Tubman

Question 21

Clay’s plan to end sectionalism

Answer 21

American Plan

Question 22

surrender began Civil War

Answer 22

Fort Sumter

Question 23

won 1860 Presidential election

Answer 23

Abraham Lincoln

Question 24

proslavery constitution in Kansas

Answer 24

Lecompton Fraud

Question 25

The __________ supported tariffs because it hoped the tariffs would help industry

Answer 25

North

Question 26

published "North Star

Answer 26

Frederick Douglass

Question 27

first African slaves arrived in Jamestown

Answer 27

1619

Question 28

proposed Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 28

Stephen Douglas

Question 29

extend 36° 30' line to California

Answer 29

Crittenden Compromise

Question 30

servitude in exchange for passage to the United States

Answer 30

indentured

Question 31

struggle between proslavery and antislavery groups

Answer 31

"Bleeding Kansas"

Question 32

formed to prevent spread of slavery

Answer 32

Republican Party

Question 33

wanted slavery abolished

Answer 33

Abolitionists

Question 34

president of Confederacy

Answer 34

Jefferson Davis

Question 35

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 35

Uncle Tom's Cabin