Chapter 14 (Pre-Civil War)

Question 1

Who was against tariffs? North, or South?

Answer 1

The South

Question 2

Who was in favor of taxes used to build railroads? North or South?

Answer 2

The North

Question 3

Which was the economy that was based on agriculture? North, or South?

Answer 3

The South

Question 4

Which was the economy that was based on industry? North, or South?

Answer 4

The North

Question 5

Who was in favor of tariffs? North, or South?

Answer 5

The North

Question 6

Who was in favor of a confederate form of government? North, or South?

Answer 6

The South

Question 7

Who had a large number of immigrants and factory workers? North, or South?

Answer 7

The North

Question 8

Which had the larger population that gave more votes in Congress? North, or South?

Answer 8

The North

Question 9

Which were the producers of manufactured goods? North, or South?

Answer 9

The North

Question 10

Which had the smaller population that gave less votes in Congress? North, or South?

Answer 10

The South

Question 11

Who believed in states’ rights? North, or South?

Answer 11

The South

Question 12

Who produced cash crops? North, or South?

Answer 12

The South

Question 13

Who had faster moving rivers? North, or South?

Answer 13

The North

Question 14

What caused Maine to be admitted as a free state?

Answer 14

The Missouri Compromise

Question 15

What led to violence and bloodshed over the vote to determine whether a territory would be free, or slave?

Answer 15

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 16

What prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Territory North of 36 Latitude?

Answer 16

The Missouri Compromise

Question 17

What caused California to be admitted as a free state?

Answer 17

The Compromise of 1850

Question 18

What ruled that Congress didn’t have power to prohibit slavery?

Answer 18

The Dred Scott Decision

Question 19

What gave the country a new, harsher Fugitive Slave Law?

Answer 19

The Compromise of 1850

Question 20

What gave free states more representatives in the Senate?

Answer 20

The Compromise of 1850

Question 21

A system where residents vote to decide an issue is called what?

Answer 21

Popular Soverignty

Question 22

Who believed that slavery was unjust and should be abolished immediately?

Answer 22

Abraham Lincoln

Question 23

To withdraw from the United States is called what?

Answer 23

Secession

Question 24

Slave states that stayed loyal to the United States and did not secede were called what?

Answer 24

Border States

Question 25

The book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was used by _____ to support their argument.

Answer 25

The North

Question 26

The event that most directly led to the Southern states withdrawing from the Union was what?

Answer 26

The election of Abraham Lincoln

Question 27

The Dred Scott decision upheld what?

Answer 27

Slaves were property

Question 28

When Lincoln campaigned for President in 1860, he thought slavery should be _______.

Answer 28

Allowed to stay put, but not expand

Question 29

The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from who?

Answer 29

France

Question 30

The control over the port of _______ made the purchase of the Louisiana Territory important.

Answer 30

New Orleans

Question 31

The percent of whites in the South, at the time of the Civil War, that DID NOT own slaves was what?

Answer 31

75%

Question 32

The Mexican-American War resulted from a dispute over the southern boundary of where?

Answer 32

Texas

Question 33

California had people rush to it in 1849 once ____ was discovered there.

Answer 33

Gold

Question 34

Why did the admission of California alarm Southerners?

Answer 34

Because it upset the balance of free and slave states

Question 35

How did the South react to the election of Lincoln as President in 1860?

Answer 35

They thought they had no voice in national government

Question 36

The first state to secede from the United States was what?

Answer 36

South Carolina

Question 37

The Southern States that seceded from the United States called themselves the what?

Answer 37

The Confederate States of America

Question 38

The President of the Southern States was who?

Answer 38

Jefferson Davis

Question 39

What is propaganda?

Answer 39

False or misleading information that is spread to further accause

Question 40

In a "confederation", the...

Answer 40

States Government have more power than the Federal Government

Question 41

A business owned and operated by one person

Answer 41

Proprietorship

Question 42

A business owned and operated by two or more people

Answer 42

Partnership

Question 43

A business owned and operated by shareholders

Answer 43

Corporation

Question 44

This represents a share of ownership by shareholders

Answer 44

Stock

Question 45

When somebody buys a share at a low price and sells it later for a higher price

Answer 45

Capital Gains

Question 46

Profits from a corporation that are divided amongst shareholders

Answer 46

Dividends

Question 47

The main factor that influences a stocks price

Answer 47

DEMAND!!!!!!!!

Question 48

Businesses sell shares of ownership in their companies in order to raise money to do what?

Answer 48

Expand their buisness

Question 49

When interest rates are low, people will spend _(1)_, and save _(2)_.

Answer 49

(1) More, (2) Less

Question 50

When interest rates are high, people will spend _(1)_, and save _(2)_.

Answer 50

(1) Less, (2) More

Question 51

Define inflation

Answer 51

The price of goods go up, but the value of money goes down

Question 52

Give a reason why so many people in the South who did not own slaves support slavery

Answer 52

They didn't want to defy the rich and powerful slave owners

Question 53

What is the difference between a "Federation", and a "Confederation"

Answer 53

In a Confederation, the states have more power. In a Federation, the Federal Government has more power.

Question 54

Why was farming in the Northern states "less" likely to use slaves as a labor force?

Answer 54

There were jobs for immigrants

Question 55

How was slave labor expensive, even though slaves weren't paid a wage?

Answer 55

Slave owners had to feed, cloth, and house their slaves

Question 56

List 5 causes of the Civil War and explain how each factor led to the war taking place

Answer 56

1. The Election of Lincoln: The South felt that they didn't have a voice in the national government. 2. Slavery in the South compared to the North: The North wanted slavery abolished. They felt it was evil. - The Dred Scott Decision (Slaves were property) - Fugitive Slave Acts (Required to return escaped slaves to their owners) - Uncle Tom's Cabin (Described cruelty to slaves) 3. States Rights: South wanted to become their own country because they didn't want the federal government to tell them what to do. Then the Northern states went to war to prevent the South from seceding. 4. Economic differences: North was based on industry, while the South was based on Agriculture. 5. The Kansas-Nebraska Act: It enraged the North because every state was going to decide via Popular Sovereignty whether or not they will be a slave state.