The Civil War

Question 1

Northwest Ordinance

Answer 1

Congress banned slavery in the territory north of the Ohio River

Question 2

Missouri Compromise

Answer 2

1820 - banned slavery in that part of the Louisianan Purchase north of the 36’30’ latitude.

Question 3

Compromise of 1850

Answer 3

1. California entrers the Union as a free state
2. A stricter Fugitive Slave Law required that escaped slaves be returned
3. Slave trade was prohibited in Washington D.C.
4. Popular sovereignty, or a vote of the people living in the territory, would determine whether a territory in the Mexican Cession was to be slave or free.

Question 4

Sectionalism

Answer 4

Different parts of the country developing unique and separate cultures (as the North, South and West). This can lead to conflict.

Question 5

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 5

1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty (voting)

Question 6

Missouri Compromise

Answer 6

“Compromise of 1820” over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered the Union as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state.
All states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South of the 36th were slave states.

Question 7

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 7

(1856) a series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas who had moved to Kansas to try to influence the decision of whether or not Kansas would a slave state or a free state.

Question 8

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 8

a book describing slavery as a cruel inhuman act, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
This intensified Northern hatred for slavery

Question 9

Reason why slavery was more popular in the south

Answer 9

Geographic factors contributed to the growth of the southern plantation system.

Question 10

Causes of the Civil War

Answer 10

Constitutional controversy that concerned the right of states to secede from the Union

Question 11

Reaction to Lincoln being elected as president

Answer 11

Several states succeeded since they knew Lincoln would try to end slavery

Question 12

total war

Answer 12

A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort

Question 13

impact of the civil war

Answer 13

The central government strengthened and the Union was restored.
Secession was no longer regarded as an option to be exercised by States.

Question 14

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 14

Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the Confederate States would be free

Question 15

The Confederate States of America

Answer 15

A republic formed in February of 1861 and composed of the eleven Southern states that seceded from the United States

Question 16

Impact of the Civil War on the Northern Economy

Answer 16

stimulated industry
improved the economy
high demand for war goods

Question 17

Lincoln’s goal during the Civil War

Answer 17

The most important thing is to preserve the union