UNIT 9: THE CIVIL WAR (1861-1865)

Question 1

Slavery

Answer 1

North opposed, South supported.

Question 2

States’ Rights

Answer 2

The South wanted more power.

Question 3

Election of 1860

Answer 3

Lincoln won → Southern states seceded.

Question 4

Sectionalism

Answer 4

Different economic interests, and political views led to increased tensions.

Question 5

Missouri Compromise of 1820

Answer 5

It tried to balance the amount of free and slave states.

Setting the boundary at 36°30′ parallel.

Limiting slavery in the North

Missouri was admitted as a slave state, while Maine entered as a free state.

Question 6

Missouri Compromise of 1850:

Answer 6

Slave trade banned in Washington D.C

California was admitted as a free state.

Stronger Fugitive Slave Law

Popular sovereignty in the remainder of the Mexican Cession.

Question 7

The Dred Scott Case

Answer 7

Congress ruled that citizens weren’t property

Question 8

Fort Sumter (1861) – First battle.

Answer 8

Why: After Lincoln’s presidential election, states begin to secede from the Union. There was a fort controlled by the Union, but it was on the property of the Confederates. Therefore, the confederates demanded the Union to surrender it, but refused to. As a result, shots were fired at the fort that started the Civil War.

Question 9

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

Answer 9

Freed enslaved people in Confederate states.