Unit 3 L1

Question 1

Large piece of land in the South where one cotton is planted for widespread commercial sale. These farms used slave labor

Answer 1

Plantations

Question 2

Compromise between the North and South by Henry Clay regarding the expansion of slavery in the new territories. 1. California admitted as a free state 2. Slaves banned in Washington D.C. 3. Tougher fugitive Slave Law enacted

Answer 2

Compromise of 1850

Question 3

Individuals usually from the North who wanted to end slavery in the entire United States

Answer 3

Abolitionists

Question 4

Compromise introduced by Stephen Douglas, which repealed the Missouri compromise (1920) by applying popular sovereignty which allowed the people of Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they wanted slavery within their territories.

Answer 4

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 5

Supreme Court decision (1857) stating that this slave did not have the right to sue for his freedom since he was not a U.S. citizen, but the property of another person. Decision also stated that slavery could not be prohibited anywhere in the United States (including the north)

Answer 5

Dred Scott Decision

Question 6

Presidential election in which Abraham Lincoln was elected president. As a result Southern states starting with South Carolina decided to leave the Union.

Answer 6

Election of 1860

Question 7

Confederate forces fired on the federal fort located in the Harbor of Charleston South Carolina which led to the beginning of the Civil War

Answer 7

Fort Sumter

Question 8

What were the Long Term Causes of the Civil War

Answer 8

1. Slavery: Differing economic needs/reliance on slavery in the south
2. Sectionalism- loyalty to the section of the country as opposed to loyalty to the nation
3. extension of Slavery
4. State’s right