Last Social Studies Test

Question 1

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 1

Right of people to create their own government.

Question 2

Free-soil Party

Answer 2

A party whose main goal was to keep slavery out of the west.

Question 3

Arsenal

Answer 3

Weapons and ammunition warehouse.

Question 4

Treason

Answer 4

Acts against one’s country.

Question 5

Martyr

Answer 5

someone who dies for their beliefs.

Question 6

Acquiescence

Answer 6

The willingness to accept laws whether the person agrees with them or not.

Question 7

Border State

Answer 7

Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware.

Question 8

Copperhead

Answer 8

Northerners opposed to using force to keep the south in the Union.

Question 9

Draft

Answer 9

Requirement of all able-bodied males between the ages of 20-46 to fight in the war.

Question 10

Habeas Corpus

Answer 10

The right to be charged or have a hearing before being jailed.

Question 11

Inflation

Answer 11

General rise in prices.

Question 12

Why did Missouri’s application to join the Union as a slave state spark a crisis?

Answer 12

It would give more power to the south in the senate and tip the balance of power in the means of slavery.

Question 13

Why did the Missouri compromise fail to solve the slavery issue?

Answer 13

It only applied to the territory acquired in the Louisiana purchase, So as they got more territories it became a problem.

Question 14

The five main provisions of the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 14

Allowed California to enter as a free state. Divided the rest of the Mexican Cession territories into New Mexico and Utah. Ended Slave trade in D.C. Included a strict fugitive slave law. Settled a border dispute between New Mexico and Texas.

Question 15

What was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Answer 15

Required all citizens to help catch African American trying to escape slavery. People who let fugitives escape could be fined $1,000 and jailed. They set up special courts. Suspects were not allowed a jury trail. Judges receive more money for sending someone away.

Question 16

Why did northerners consider the Kansas Nebraska act as betrayal?

Answer 16

They believed it repealed the missouri compromise.

Question 17

Dred. Scott and the Courts DECISION

Answer 17

Dred scott was a slave and when his owner was alive he was taken to states that did not allow slavery, when his owner died he filed a lawsuit for freedom. First the court ruled that he could not file a case because he was not a citizen, but property. They then stated that congress did not have the power to outlaw slavery and that the missouri compromise was unconstitutional.

Question 18

Why were white southerners outraged by the north’s response to John Browns execution?

Answer 18

The northerners rung church bells in his honor, Southerners thought that, that was outrageous and they wanted to destroy slavery and the south along with it.

Question 19

Why were both sides trying to attract border states?

Answer 19

These states had more people to fight and more factories to manufacture goods.

Question 20

3 Advantages of the North

Answer 20

1. Enough people to grow food and run factories while others were fighting in the war.
2. Strong, large fleet of ships
3. They could continuously pump out trained officers from West Point.

Question 21

3 Advantages of the South

Answer 21

1. Civilians would help
2. Soldiers knew the terrain and countryside better.
3. Many generals were West Point graduates

Question 22

3 Disadvantages of the South

Answer 22

1. Few factories to produce weapons and supplies.
2. The confederate government was ineffective.
3. They had 9 million people compared to the north’s 22 million.

Question 23

3 Disadvantages of the North

Answer 23

1. They were fighting in unfamiliar territory.
2. Had to conquer a huge area.
3. Had trouble finding younger, more experienced generals.

Question 24

Union war tactic

Answer 24

1. Capture RICHMOND. Without its capital, the Confederacy’s command lines would be disrupted.
2. Shatter Southern civilian morale by capturing and destroying ATLANTA, SAVANNAH.
3. Fully blockade all Southern coasts.

Question 25

Confederate War Tactic

Answer 25

To fight a defensive war

Question 26

Draft Problems in the North

Answer 26

People did not like that you could pay to not go into the army. A lot of people didn’t want to fight if they did not care about slavery. It became a rich mans war.

Question 27

Draft problems in the South

Answer 27

People did not like that if you had more than 20 slaves you didn’t have to fight. People with less resented this law. It became a rich mans war.

Question 28

Why was losing the Mississippi river bad for the confederacy?

Answer 28

The confederacy was split into two. They were no longer to maneuver vital supplies between them and to troops.

Question 29

What was Grants concept of total war?

Answer 29

Destroying everything useful. Sherman’s troops burned everything, destroyed everything like houses, fields, railroad tracks, livestock.

Question 30

How did women’s roles change?

Answer 30

They took over jobs in the industry, farms and plantations. Some woman disguised themselves as men to go into war. They participated in war by being spies. Some became war nurses, and some helped wash clothes and supplies for the troops. Some did fundraisers for the war.