Civil War

Question 1

Sectionalism

Answer 1

Pride in ones region, country, or state.

Question 2

Sectionalism in the Northern + Southern states

Answer 2

Northern
Political: Central Government
Economic: Industrial & Pro-Tariff
Social: Anti-Slavery & Progressive
(Republican)

Southern
Political: Strong State Government
Economic: Agriculture & Anti-Tariff 
Social: Pro-Slavery & Traditional
(Democratic)

Question 3

Missouri Compromise - Issue + Solution

Answer 3

In 1820, amid growing sectional tensions over the issue of slavery, the U.S. Congress passed a law that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery from the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands located north of the 36º 30’ parallel.

Question 4

Issue with Tariffs - The Nullification Crisis

Answer 4

But the nullification crisis revealed the deep divisions between the North and the South and showed they could cause enormous problems―and eventually, they split the Union and secession followed, with the first state to secede being South Carolina

The crisis set the stage for the battle between Unionism and state’s rights, which eventually led to the Civil War

Question 5

Famous Abolitionists

Answer 5

Fredrick Douglass: He helped slaves escape and the author of the ‘North Star’
William Lloyd Garrison: In 1830, William Lloyd Garrison started an abolitionist paper, The Liberator. In 1832, he helped form the New England Anti-Slavery Society.
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Author of ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’, which was a propaganda that was later banned in the Southern states.
Harriet Tubman: Leader of the ‘Underground Railroad’.
Sojourner Truth: An advocate for women’s rights and the author of ‘Liberator’

Question 6

Know Nothing Party + Free Soil Party

Answer 6

Know Nothing Party: They opposed immigration and cared for only native citizens (Not Native Americans), supporters were composed of mostly Christians.
Free Soil Party: Believed in abolishing slavery

Question 7

Supreme Court Case - Dred Scott v Standford

Answer 7

Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court.

Question 8

Compromise of 1850

Answer 8

1. California was admitted to the Union as a free state.
2. the remainder of the Mexican cession was divided into the two territories of New Mexico and Utah and organized without mention of slavery.
3. the claim of Texas to a portion of New Mexico was satisfied by a payment of $10 million.
4. new legislation (the Fugitive Slave Act) was passed to apprehend runaway slaves and return them to their masters.

Question 9

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 9

Passed by Congress in 1793 and 1850 (and repealed in 1864) that provided for the seizure and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a federal territory.

Question 10

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 10

The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 made the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, allowing the states to vote on whether slavery was legal or not. This law canceled the Missouri Compromise, which declared that slavery was not legal in those areas. “Bleeding Kansas,” was when proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.

Question 11

John Brown - Raid on Harpers Ferry

Answer 11

Abolitionist John Brown led 21 men down the road to Harpers Ferry in what is today West Virginia. The plan was to take the town’s federal armory and, ultimately, ignite a nationwide uprising against slavery. The plan failed and he was later persecuted and executed.

Question 12

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 12

Bleeding Kansas describes the period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854.

Question 13

Lincoln v Douglas Debates

Answer 13

A series of seven debates between the Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign, largely concerning the issue of slavery extension into the territories. Lincoln losses, but gains national fame.

Question 14

Election 1860

Answer 14

The election of the president of the United States 1860. Lincoln won the election, and had more electoral votes and more popular votes than any candidate. Since the race had four main candidates.

Question 15

The Secession of South Carolina

Answer 15

In December of 1860, South Carolina was the first state to secede from the union. The decision to secede from the union was a result of the building tensions in the United States during the 1800s over the institution of slavery, states’ rights, and tariffs.