Antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction: Antebellum

Question 1

What did “Manifest Destiny” by John O’ Sullivan do for our country?

Answer 1

-gave the idea that expansion was necessary

-gave the idea that a democratic republic could save the nation

-allowed new forms of transportation and communication

-gave political issues that sparked the Civil War

Question 2

John Tyler

Answer 2

President who offered Texas statehood

Question 3

Two issues of allowing Texans into the Union:

Answer 3

-balance between free and slave states?

-would this provoke war with Mexico?

Question 4

James K. Polk as President

Answer 4

• pro-expansion

-ready for war

Question 5

The Mexican War

Answer 5

-an easy win

-becomes unpopular (soldiers are treated terribly)

-shows who will be famous in the Civil War

Question 6

results of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo:

Answer 6

-Rio Grande is the southern border of Texas

-US gets California and New Mexico

Question 7

California Gold Rush

Answer 7

-causes many people to move West

-California is quickly approaching statehood status

Question 8

California and New Mexico apply for statehood as free states. Why is that bad for some people?

Answer 8

The unbalance between free states and slave states. Would not be good for those in the Senate and House

Question 9

Compromise of 1850

Answer 9

-California is a free state

-New Mexico is split into two territories (New Mexico and Utah). These territories decided if they are free or slave states.

-slavery is banned in Washington D.C.

-Fugitive Slave law is adopted

Question 10

Fugitive Slave Laws

Answer 10

if a runaway slave was caught in a free state, they would be returned back to their home (even if they were free)

Question 11

Effects of the Fugitive Slave Laws

Answer 11

-shows the South had too much control over the government

-The North could no longer ignore the issues of slavery

-courts denied escaped slaves the right to a free trial by jury

-the Underground Railroad was established

Question 12

Democratic Party at the time:

Answer 12

dominate politics, slavery is normal, Northern men with Southern sympathies

Question 13

Whig Party

Answer 13

(R) falls apart over the issue of slavery

Question 14

Free Soil Party

Answer 14

(R) believes slavery should not be allowed in territories but fine in the south

Question 15

Know-Nothing Party

Answer 15

(R) believed in nativism (fear of Catholic immigrants)

Question 16

Republican Party at the time:

Answer 16

-Whig party
-Free Soil Party
-Know-Nothing Party believed in nativism

Question 17

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 17

people in territories decided (via popular vote) if a state is a free or slave state

Question 18

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe (white)

Answer 18

African American was the main character, humanized African American slaves to a mass audience

Question 19

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 19

Douglass proposed to split the Nebraska territory into two parts and allow settlers to act through Popular Sovereignty

Question 20

result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 20

-North is outraged

-they repeal the Missouri Compromises on 1820

-Wisconsin-Republican party is formed

Question 21

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 21

-Pro-Slavery and Abolitionist settle in Kansas and fight over slavery

-Government does nothing about it

Question 22

Wisconsin-Republican party

Answer 22

opposed the spread of slavery into territories
-not to end slavery itself

Question 23

What does John C Fremont’s presidential campaign show for the Wisconsin-Republican Party?

Answer 23

It proves the Party can be a national party and compete in elections

Question 24

What happened when the Missouri Compromise was repealed?

Answer 24

slaves could go anywhere (territory-wise). North was pissed

Question 25

Dred Scott Case

Answer 25

-Dred Scott could not sue the Supreme Court

-The US Constitution does not recognize African Americans and citizens, they are instead property

-Congress could not outlaw slavery in territories since slaves are property

-Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional and slaves can go anywhere (territory-wise)

-draws national attention (North wants government to change)

Question 26

Lincoln vs. Douglass Round 1

Answer 26

-Lincoln loses Senate

-Lincoln gets national acclaim

-Douglass is seen as not defending slavery enough in the South’s eyes

Question 27

John Brown and his slave uprisings in the South:

Answer 27

-abolitionist praise him

-the South sees this as an attack from the North

-the South are looking for reasons to be done with the Union

Question 28

Crittenden’s Compromise

Answer 28

the last effort to save the South from leaving the Union and protecting slavery

Question 29

James Buchanan

Answer 29

-President before Lincoln

-Northern man with Southern sympathies

-made his cabinet mostly Democratic

Question 30

States seceded to organize the Confederate States of America

Answer 30

• Slavery is THE unifying issue of the rebellion

-Jefferson Davis is president of the Confederate

Question 31

Fort Sumter, Charleston

Answer 31

-South fires

-war begins