Pre-Civil War Summitive

Question 1

Civil war

Answer 1

A war fought within its own country

Question 2

Popular soverty

Answer 2

Belief that people of an Area can legalize slavery or not

Question 3

Missouri compromise of 1820

Answer 3

.

Question 4

Compromise of 1850

Answer 4

1. California comes in as a free state
2. Rest of west is P.S
3. No slave trade in DC
4. Strong fugitive slave law goes into effect

Question 5

Kansas-Nebraska act

Answer 5

1854- popular soverty with Steven Dougless(IL)

People come to convince

Question 6

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 6

1000s go and fight. Lots of death and injury

Question 7

Harpers Ferry

Answer 7

John Brown takes over arsenal 1859. Wants to give salves weapons, hard core abolish.

Question 8

Election 1960

Answer 8

Lincoln wins, split between 2 democrats

Question 9

Secession of SC

Answer 9

SC leaves Union, followed by 6 other states.

1. Can’t trust DC
2. Slavery mo longer spreading
3. No influence anymore

Question 10

The CSA

Answer 10

Jefferson Davis- D
Creates own constitution with slavery.
Montgomery, AL is capital

Question 11

Lincoln/ Dougless debate

Answer 11

Debates for senators- 1858. Focused on p.s and slavery. Dougless wins

Question 12

AbLindoln views

Answer 12

Slavery- political, social, moral wrong but not an abolitionist
South- didn’t like him. He wouldn’t spread slavery, do no good. “Republican”

Question 13

Major crop of south

Answer 13

Cotton

Question 14

Economy of N/S

Answer 14

North: factories mostly. Dependent mostly on south, few farms here and there of vegetables and grains.
South: all plantations of cotton and Tabaco. Imports lots

Question 15

Uncle toms cabin

Answer 15

HF book written by Harriet B. Stowe. Showed people harsh reality of south. Open lots of eyes, very influential.

Question 16

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 16

Took place in 1856. Slave who sued for his freedom after owner died in Freestate. The supreme Court decided three things:

1. Black people are not citizens at all
2. Black people cannot sue because they are not citizens
3. Congress can not deny slavery

Question 17

Balance of power

Answer 17

Congress didn’t add a slave state without adding a free state. Didn’t want to make the government more cited to one area

Question 18

Joshua Glover

Answer 18

Milwaukee very abolitionist. Runaway slave for Mom to Racine and lived there for two years. Citizen calls him in to police, and he goes to jail in Milwaukee. There are massive protest, with lots of the city’s population there. They decide to break Joshua Glover out of jail, and Sherman booth leads it. They get him to Canada by blowing the wall out of the prison. Sherman booth is arrested when he returns the US, but he knows the president and gets out of jail.

Question 19

Sectionalism

Answer 19

An area be divided into sections based on categories