Part B

Question 1

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

David Potter

Answer 1

“Northerner’s attitudes toward slavery was never quite the same after Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

Question 2

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Lincoln

Answer 2

So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war

Question 3

Lincoln Douglas debates

Harold Holzer

Answer 3

The seven debates…are among the most important statements in American political history, dramatic struggles over the issues that would tear apart the nation in the civil war”

Question 4

Lincoln Douglas debates

Lincoln

Answer 4

If slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong

Question 5

John Brown’s Raid

Frederick Douglass

Answer 5

John Brown began the war that ended American slavery

Question 6

John Brown’s Raid

Richmond Newspaper

Answer 6

The Harper’s Ferry invasion has advanced the cause of disunion more than any other event that has happened since the formation of its government

Question 7

1860 Election of Lincoln

James Mcpherson

Answer 7

Abraham Lincoln’s election convinced them they had lost control of the national government and, therefore, of slavery’s fate within the union

Question 8

Southern Secession

David Potter

Answer 8

To a much greater degree than the slaveholders desired, secession had become a slave owners movement

Question 9

Southern Secession

South Carolina reason

Answer 9

A geographical line has been drawn across the union, and all the states North of that line have been united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the U.S. Whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery

Question 10

Attempts at Compromise

Lincoln

Answer 10

The question of extending slavery under the national auspices- I am inflexible

Question 11

Attempts at Compromise

David Potter

Answer 11

Given the momentum of secession and the fundamental set of Republicanism it is probably safe to say that compromise was impossible from the start

Question 12

Attempts at Compromise

Sanderson Beck

Answer 12

Lincoln rejected the option of letting the Southern states withdraw peacefully…blocking any attempt to resolve the conflict by peaceful means

Question 13

Lincoln and Fort Sumter

Sanderson Beck

Answer 13

Lincoln had provoked it by insisting on keeping control over federal forts in their territory

Question 14

North and South Economic Differences

Charles Beard

Answer 14

Economic issues such as the tariff and government subsidies to transportation and manufacturing were what really divided the power brokers, Northern manufacturers and Southern planters

Question 15

North and South Economic Differences

Sanderson Beck

Answer 15

The South also felt exploited by the North because of the high tariffs that resulted in Southern taxes being used in other parts of the country

Question 16

The North’s passionate attachment to the Union

Lincoln

Answer 16

If I could save the union without freeing any Slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that

Question 17

The North’s passionate attachment to the Union

Maldwyn Jones

Answer 17

Northerners… Had learned to identify the union with liberty and democracy and to feel that it’s continuance was crucial

Secession challenged the idea of American nationalism

Question 18

Slavery

William W Freehling

Answer 18

The most charged [word] in the antebellum political vocabulary: slavepower

Question 19

Slavery

Frederick Douglass

Answer 19

Slavery is the primal cause of that war

Question 20

Slavery

Lincoln

Answer 20

Slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew this interest was somehow the cause of the war.

Question 21

Slavery

Sanderson Beck

Answer 21

The horrible institution of slavery was obviously the issue that provoked the conflict between the southern slave States and the northern states

Question 22

General Sectional Tension

James McPherson

Answer 22

North and South might speak the same language but by the mid-19th century they were increasingly using this language to revile each other