Early Conflict And Background Of Civil War

Question 1

what was the first conflict and when?

Answer 1

Little Crows war 1862

Question 2

why did it start, what happened and what was the result?

Answer 2

Sioux nearly starved from civil war shortages. Four of them murdered five settlers for a dare. Little Crow led his warriors in an uprising but hundreds of settlers and about 100 soldiers died. Little Crow was defeated- 38 of them were hung and expelled from what was left of the land.

Question 3

why where the Cheyenne suffering?

Answer 3

Starving - couldn’t find buffalo and infertile land

Question 4

When was the Sand Creek massacre?

Answer 4

November 1864

Question 5

Who was the leader of the army?

Answer 5

Chivington

Question 6

How many Indians were killed?

Answer 6

450

Question 7

who was the leader of the Cheyenne?

Answer 7

Black Kettle

Question 8

what was the result?

Answer 8

Black Kettle spread information of what happened and the US public demanded and end to war and Cheyenne move to Oklahoma.

Question 9

What was the Bozeman trail?

Answer 9

Overland route connecting gold rush territory of Montana to the Oregon Trail.

Question 10

Why did the Bozeman trail upset the Indians?

Answer 10

New settlers made Indians dislike them and caused them to attack and it broke the Fort Laramie treaty of 1851.

Question 11

What did they do?

Answer 11

Attacked travellers on the trail.

Question 12

What did the army want to do as a result?

Answer 12

Build forts to protect travellers.

Question 13

who negotiated with the army?

Answer 13

Red Cloud

Question 14

What was Fetterman’s trap?

Answer 14

Sioux ambushed Fetterman and his troops and all 80 of his men were killed.

Question 15

What did the army do (Fetterman trap)

Answer 15

US army surrendered and abandoned forts. Major defeat.

Question 16

What was the economy of the south based upon?

Answer 16

Cotton plantations

Question 17

What did it need for it’s industry?

Answer 17

cheap slave labour

Question 18

what is a plantation?

Answer 18

an estate where crops are grown.

Question 19

What was the economy of the north based upon?

Answer 19

industrial

Question 20

When was slavery abolished in the north?

Answer 20

1804

Question 21

Was north or south more wealthy?

Answer 21

south

Question 22

Why did the north have more political power in terms of congress?

Answer 22

Higher population and Washington is in the north

Question 23

How many representatives did each state have in the senate?

Answer 23

2

Question 24

What is a free state?

Answer 24

A state with no slavery

Question 25

What was the idea of balance in terms of slave and free states?

Answer 25

If the number of slave and free states are balanced in the congress and senate, the situation stays the same.

Question 26

When and what was the Missouri compromise?

Answer 26

1820 - any new states above the 36th latitude line cannot be a slave state.

Question 27

Gold was discovered in 1849 leading California to become a free state. The south considered SECESSION. What does this mean?

Answer 27

To leave the union

Question 28

When was the next compromise?

Answer 28

1850

Question 29

What was agreed about California, New Mexico and Utah?

Answer 29

They can choose to be free or slave states

Question 30

Was anyone happy?

Answer 30

Neither were happy

Question 31

When and what was the Kansas-Nebraska act?

Answer 31

1854, Kansas Nebraska got the vote whether they’re a slave or free state.

Question 32

What does abolitionist mean?

Answer 32

North wants slavery to be over.

Question 33

What novel did Harriet Beecher Stowe write?

Answer 33

Uncle Tom’s cabin 1852

Question 34

What did uncle Tom’s cabin do?

Answer 34

supported abolitionist and raised anti-slavery in the north

Question 35

What year did the Missouri compromise come to an end and why?

Answer 35

1846- US gained more territory in the west with California.