Ch. 18 - Causes of the Civil War

Question 1

work

Answer 1

labor

Question 2

war between the northern and southern states

Answer 2

Civil War

Question 3

The United States as one country

Answer 3

Union

Question 4

part of the United States that was anti-slavery, large cities, factories

Answer 4

the North

Question 5

part of the United States that was pro-slavery, plantations, farms

Answer 5

the South

Question 6

mainly in the north; illegal to own slaves

Answer 6

free state

Question 7

mainly in the south; legal to own slaves

Answer 7

slave state

Question 8

runaway or escaped person

Answer 8

fugitive

Question 9

from KY; known as the Great Compromiser

Answer 9

Henry Clay

Question 10

to make an agreement and usually the sides have to give up something

Answer 10

compromise

Question 11

the path used by slaves to freedom in the north (many paths)

Answer 11

Underground Railroad

Question 12

person who wanted to end slavery or help slaves to freedom (ex: Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, Harriet Beecher Stowe)

Answer 12

abolitionist

Question 13

what the slaves called the big dipper

Answer 13

drinking gourd

Question 14

ownership of someone and they are usually put to work

Answer 14

slavery

Question 15

when you officially withdraw from a government or country, some southern states did this

Answer 15

secede

Question 16

nation formed by the 11 southern states that left the Union

Answer 16

Confederacy

Question 17

When you compare the North and the South, how would you describe the North?

Answer 17

Railroads, canals, factories, big cities, anti-slavery, free labor

Question 18

When you compare the North and the South, how would you describe the South?

Answer 18

Plantations, farms, pro-slavery, slave labor, grew cotton

Question 19

Who wrote the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 19

Henry Clay

Question 20

What were the important components of the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 20

Allow Missouri to join as a slave state;
Allow Maine to join as a free state;
This allowed the number of free vs slave states to remain equal;
At 36 degree 30 latitude line that with the exception of Missouri – no state north of that line could be a slave state

Question 21

What were the important components of the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 21

Fugitive Slave Law – passed by congress and said North had to help return runaway slaves to the South;
California added to the Union as a free state;
Utah and New Mexico had the choice to vote on whether to allow slavery;
Stopped slave auctions in Washington, DC

Question 22

Many abolitionists helped slaves escape to freedrom through this

Answer 22

Underground Railroad

Question 23

What was a conductor on the Underground Railroad?

Answer 23

a leader that would direct slaves to freedom through “stations” or safe houses

Question 24

How would slaves identify a station or safe house?

Answer 24

There would be a signal such as a light or a quilt hung outside.

Question 25

What did many slaves sing as they traveling on the Underground Railroad?

Answer 25

Follow the Drinking Gourd

Question 26

Who was Harriet Tubman?

Answer 26

A runaway slave who helped others on the Underground Railroad. She made about 19 trips and helped 300 people.

Question 27

Who was the abolitionist that led an attack and killed 5 people over the issue of slavery?

Answer 27

(Crazy) John Brown

Question 28

According to the Missouri Compromise, what type of state should Kansas have become when it joined the Union?

Answer 28

A free state because it was above the latitude line set by the Missouri Compromise.

Question 29

What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Answer 29

An act passed by congress that would allow those states to vote on whether to be free or slave states. It was in conflict with the Missouri Compromise.

Question 30

What happened when Kansas had the first vote on whether or not to be a slave state?

Answer 30

People from Missouri (a slave state) came in to vote so the first vote was thrown out for cheating

Question 31

What was the first instance of people fighting and being killed over the issue of slavery?

Answer 31

When a pro-slavery mob attacked a town and destroyed buildings and John Brown retaliated with an attack at Pottawatomie

Question 32

The attack and deaths in Kansas over slavery led to it be referred to as:

Answer 32

Bleeding Kansas

Question 33

What was important about the election of Abraham Lincoln?

Answer 33

He ran against other people;
He was a Republican running against democrats;
No southern states voted for him;
He tried to make things fair

Question 34

What was Lincoln’s plan regarding slavery?

Answer 34

He was going to allow slavery to stay in southern states, but wouldn’t allow any other state joining the union to have slavery

Question 35

What happened as a result of Lincoln’s plan regarding slavery?

Answer 35

His stance angered the Southern states and they began seceded from the Union.

Question 36

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

Answer 36

South Carolina

Question 37

How many states broke away or seceded from the Union?

Answer 37

11

Question 38

What did the states that seceded become known as?

Answer 38

The Confederacy or the Confederate States of America

Question 39

What event officially started the Civil War and when did it happen?

Answer 39

The attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861.

Question 40

What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write?

Answer 40

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 41

What was Uncle Tom’s Cabin about?

Answer 41

It was about a runaway slave.

Question 42

Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?

Answer 42

A white woman who protested slavery.

Question 43

Why was Uncle Tom’s Cabin controversial?

Answer 43

It was a very debated book because people had strong opinions for and against slavery. It was also debated because it was written by a white woman at a time that women didn’t do that kind of thing.