Chapter 8 Test

Question 1

What is popular sovereignty?

Answer 1

the belief that each new territory should be able to decide for themselves if they want to permit slavery

Question 2

The US Constitution doesn’t have the right to dictate what?

Answer 2

Morality to the people

Question 3

The civil war was really a war about what?

Answer 3

A constitutional crisis

Question 4

What happened after the gold rush?

Answer 4

California applied for statehood. It was debated if they should be a free or slave state.

Question 5

What are states allowed to do because of states rights?

Answer 5

They can modify acts of Congress and even leave the Union.

Question 6

What was the test of the states rights theory?

Answer 6

The Civil War

Question 7

What is secession?

Answer 7

Removing a state from the Union.

Question 8

What lead the north to be more powerful in Congress?

Answer 8

They were wealthier than the south and had a bigger population

Question 9

Before the Compromise of 1850, what did each side believe of the other?

Answer 9

The north became completely intolerant of slavery, while the south thought it was morally wrong to abolish slavery

Question 10

What were the terms of the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 10

Before this, it was half-and half, so Missouri was the tiebreaker
Maine became a free state
Missouri became a slave state
The 36-30 line was where slavery couldn’t go north of.

Question 11

Who was Dred Scott opposed to?

Answer 11

Sanford (his owner)

Question 12

What was the reason for this case?

Answer 12

Scott filed law suit against his slave owner because he claimed that he and his wife lived in territories that were free, so they couldn’t be slaves, but still had to be slaves anyway because they were originally.

Question 13

What was the ruling of the case?

Answer 13

It was 7-2 in favor of Sanford. Scott wasn’t considered a citizen, so he couldn’t sue anyone anyway if he won.

Question 14

What got enforced after the case?

Answer 14

A slave was property and couldn’t be free even if they were on free soil.

Question 15

What gave people the right to enforce this law about slaves being property?

Answer 15

Property was protected by the 5th Amendment in the Constitution.

Question 16

What made the Constitution and Declaration of Independence unique?

Answer 16

The documents weren’t intended to apply blacks to it’s laws.

Question 17

What were some effects of the Dred Scott case?

Answer 17

Congress had to protect slavery throughout the Union and they had no power to ban it even in the territories. They also had no legal basis for granting blacks’ rights

Question 18

What did the effects of the Dred Scott case do to the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 18

It made it “not warranted by the Constitution as therefore said”.

Question 19

The Dred Scott case made the Constitution get what?

Answer 19

The case was the best interpretation of it so far.

Question 20

Who represented the southern democrats in the election of 1860?

Answer 20

John C. Breckenridge (KY)

Question 21

Who represented the northern democrats in the election of 1860?

Answer 21

Stephen Douglas (IL)

Question 22

Who was the republican candidate in the 1860 election?

Answer 22

Abraham Lincoln (IL)

Question 23

Who was for the Constitutional Union Party in the election?

Answer 23

John Bell (TN)

Question 24

Who won what states?

Answer 24

• Douglas only won MO
• Lincoln won all northern free states besides NJ
• Breckinridge won all but 3 of the southern states
• Bell won TN, KY, VA

Question 25

What did each person get in the popular vote?

Answer 25

• Brekinridge-18%}total dems. 47%
• Douglas-29%
• Lincoln-40%
• Bell-13%

Question 26

Who won for most electoral votes?

Answer 26

Lincoln with 180 of 303 (59%), therefore, he won the election.

Question 27

What are so special about the states of SC, GA, AL, MS, LA, TX, FL?

Answer 27

NOT 1 Vote from those states was for Lincoln.

Question 28

Why did the south feel they had rights to secede?

Answer 28

They weren’t being represented in the elections.

Question 29

Why did the south think it was okay to secede from the Union?

Answer 29

We seceded from Britain because of lack of representation.

Question 30

Who was first to secede?

Answer 30

SC (12/20/1860)-Before Lincoln was President

Question 31

What did the south do to start their new country?

Answer 31

Make an Act of Confederation?

Question 32

Who was their president?

Answer 32

Jefferson Davis (MS)

Question 33

What were the disadvantages of their government and the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 33

• no Presidential power
• The central government had no power to tax
• They had nothing to back up their money
• They had no way for the central government to call for an army.

Question 34

What did Lincoln think of the South when they seceded?

Answer 34

He didn’t recognize them as their own country.

Question 35

What does nonpartisan mean?

Answer 35

Impartial

Question 36

What was the first battle of the war?

Answer 36

Fort Sumter in SC

Question 37

What dates did they fight?

Answer 37

April 6, 10, 12, 1861

Question 38

What were the causes of the battle?

Answer 38

Supply ships were sent back and forth before the battle and Lincoln refused to acknowledge the Confederacy.

Question 39

What occurred in the battle?

Answer 39

Jefferson Davis told Southern General Bauregarde to demand surrender, but Union Major Anderson refused it. Beauregarde opened the firing on the 12th and after 24 hours of firing, Anderson finally surrenders.

Question 40

What were the effects of the battle?

Answer 40

• By firing on federal fort, the South had committed to an open act of rebellion.
• Lincoln responded to this by asking for volunteers
• Fort Sumter was a sign for the Union that the South was bad.