Civil War Test 1

Question 1

Abolitionists

Answer 1

People who were against slavery because it was a moral evil. Also people who wnted to get rid of slavery in the entire US.

Question 2

Free Soilers

Answer 2

Did not like slavery, but not because they thought it was a moral evil bc it damaged there income since people who get paid work better.
Different then abolitionists bc they were not fully opposed to slavery and did not think it was a moral evil

Question 3

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 3

Control by the people. It was the principle used by some states to decide if slavery would be allowed there.

Question 4

Secession

Answer 4

To remove yourself from a country and become your own.
What the South wanted to do.
Have there own country seperate to the U.S
Ie. Brexit, N. Korea and S. Korea

Question 5

Sectionalism

Answer 5

When a group or individual expresses alliegiance to a region or section rather to a country has a whole.

Question 6

Fugitive Slave Law

Answer 6

Allowed the south to hire kidnappers to capture runaway s,aves or even kill them if they ran.
Legal

Question 7

Compromise of 1850

Answer 7

Proposed by Henry Clay

1. California became a free state
2. made Utah and New Mexico a people would vote on slavery.
3. Also led to the fugitive slave law.
4. Ban sale of slaves in D.C (but not slavery)
5. Texas would give up claims to New Mexico for 10 million.

Question 8

Wilmot Provisa

Answer 8

Law to ban slavery in any territory won from mexico. The house passed it but the senate denied it so it never became a law.

Question 9

Missouri compromise

Answer 9

Happened in 1820.
Proposed by Henry Clay
Allowed Missouri to become a slave on condition that maine would become a free state and other parts of the territory from the Louisiana purchase, north of 36 degrees lattitude would not become slave states.

Question 10

Kansas Nebraska act

Answer 10

Happened in 1854
Steven Douglas said that slavery or no slavery would be decided by the popular sovereingty of kansas and nebraska. (This essentially negated the misouri comp.)

Question 11

Mexican-American War

Answer 11

A war between Mexico and America which America won and they got Utah, New Mexico, and California (1846-1848)

Question 12

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Answer 12

A debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas
Happened in 1858
Douglas thought slavery should be voted on and Lincoln thought that slavery should not be a thing, but he thought they should be able to vote, but not be total equals.
Had 7 debates

Question 13

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 13

Caused by John Brown
Happened in 1856
Happened because kansas was going to be voted on and the south and north sent in people to sway the vote and John Brown’s violent abolitionist started killing pro-slavery people in there sleep and the pro-slavery people fought back which caused it to be a mini war so it was named bleeding kansas.

Question 14

Henry Clay

Answer 14

He made the Compromise of 1850
Nicknamed the Great Compromiser
He also made the Missouri Compromise

Question 15

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 15

Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a woman

Question 16

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 16

The 16th president of the united states
Years in office: 1861-1865
From illonois
Killed by john booth in 1865

Question 18

John Brown

Answer 18

A pro violence abolitionist
Leader of the start of abolitionists killing pro slavery people
Caused the war Bleeding Kansas in 1856

Question 19

Frederick Douglas

Answer 19

Big abolitionist
Born into slavery in Maryland
Published antislavery paper called the North Star in 1847

Question 20

Stephen Douglas

Answer 20

An illinois senator who proposed the Kansas Nebraska act. nicknamed the little giant

Question 20

John. C Calhoun

Answer 20

Southern speaker who grew up in South Carolina. He was a pro slavery senator from south carolina.