history unit 10

Question 1

popular sovereignty

Answer 1

idea that political authority belongs to the people

Question 2

sectionalism

Answer 2

devotion to the interests of one region over the interests of the country as a whole

Question 3

secede

Answer 3

to formally withdraw from the union

Question 4

uncle Tom’s cabin

Answer 4

antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed Northerns the violent reality of slavery and drew many to the abolitionists cause

Question 5

compromise of 1850

Answer 5

Henry clay proposed agreement that allowed CA to enter the union as a free state and divided the Mexican cession into territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty

Question 6

fugitive slave act

Answer 6

l aw that made it a crime to help runaway slaves. allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves In areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders

Question 7

kansas-nebraska act

Answer 7

a law that allowed voters in kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery

Question 8

Lincoln-Douglass debates

Answer 8

a series of debates between republican Linclon and democrat Douglass during the 1858 senate campaign in Illinois

Question 9

confederate states of America

Answer 9

confedracy, the nation formed by the southern states when they seceded from the union

Question 10

cotton diplomacy

Answer 10

confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to britains textile industry to persuade the british to support the confederacy in the civil war

Question 11

ironclads

Answer 11

a warship that is heavily armored with iron

Question 12

emancipation

Answer 12

freeing of the slaves

Question 13

emancipation proclamation

Answer 13

an order issued by president Lincoln freeing the slaves in areas rebelling against the union Janurary 1 1863

Question 14

contrabands

Answer 14

an escaped slave who joined the union army during the civil war

Question 15

habeas corpus

Answer 15

the constitonal protection against unlawful imprisonment

Question 16

total war

Answer 16

a type of war in which an army destroys its opponents ability to fight by targeting civilian and economic as well as military resources

Question 17

extra credit

Answer 17

April 9th 1865

Question 18

describe 3 causes of the civil war

Answer 18

fugative slave act: angered abolitionists because it supported slavery
uncle Tom’s cabin: novel angered southerners
sectionalism: the states are separated into slave and free states

Question 19

4 advantages of union and confederacy

Answer 19

north: population, transportation network, money, banking system
south: cotton and agriculture, exports, food from farms, military officers

Question 20

describe the impact of emancipation procalmation

Answer 20

presadent Lincoln issued the proclamation in 1863 freeing all enslaves Africans in rebllious states. it was an attempt to stop slave laybor from being used to help the southern war effort

Question 21

what are the 4 main effects of the civil war

Answer 21

1.end to slavery
2. 620,000 Americans killed
3. creation of military districts
4. destruction of southern economy