UNIT 3 IMPORTANT QUESTIONS Flashcards
-pro-slavery and abolitionists fought because of the Kansas-Nebraska act
-brought up more slavery debate because they had an option
Bleeding Kansas
Court’s ruling in the Dred Scott case
Ruled that Dred Scott was an object
-all throughout America
-trying to gain those southern states back that had seceded
-figure out how to get whites and blacks to live together peacefully without slavery.
Reconstruction period
advantages of the North in the Civil War
transportation, industrialization, and population
advantages of the South in the Civil War
military leaders, will to fight, and homeland advantage
What was the purpose of Sherman’s March to the Sea?
Scare the southerners into surrendering
What was the purpose of the Gettysburg Address?
- to give honor to the soldiers who died in the Gettysburg battle
-They had a cemetery on the site of the battle and Lincoln also gave a speech.
literacy tests
grandfather clause
pay taxes
ways African-Americans were prevented from voting after the Civil War
What caused S.C. to secede from the Union?
Lincoln was elected as president
Who led and what was the S.C. Nullification Movement?
John C. Calhoun led the S.C. Nullification movement that let South Carolina secede from the Union because it was constitutional due to the reserved rights of the states.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe and what did she do to help start the war?
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book called Uncle Tom’s Cabin which helped lots of Northerners refer to abolitionism.
a law that said all runaway slaves must be brought back to their owner whether it’s a free state or not. If they helped the slave whatsoever then they could be put in jail.
Fugitive Slave Act
