Unit 6

Question 1

What Act made it possible for slavery to move into territory north of 36-30 line?

Hint: Named afte 2 states.

Answer 1

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 2

What railroad connected the East Coast to the West Coast?

Hint: Across-

Answer 2

Transcontinental Railroad

Hint: Trans- means Across; Across the Continent

Question 3

What are the 3 causes of the civil war?

Answer 3

• Federal Power
• Westward Expansion
• Slavery

Question 4

How did Lincoln force states to choose sides after Fort Sumter?

Hint: What is needed to fight a war?

Answer 4

Made them send in troops

Hint: Need troops to fight a war

Question 5

Why was it important to keep Maryland in the Union?

Hint: What’s the most important place in the US?

Answer 5

Prevent Washington DC from being surrounded

Question 6

What fort was attacked starting the Civil War?

Hint: Total end to peace

Answer 6

Fort Sumter

Hint: Sum- means total, like in math

Question 7

What was a last-ditch effort attempting to avoid war between states?

Hint: How do you avoid fights?

Answer 7

Crittenden Compromise

Hint: Compromises are used to avoid fights

Question 8

What state was the first to secede?

Hint: Starts with S…

Answer 8

South Carolina

Hint: South Carolina

Question 9

What did the southern states create by seceding?

Hint: Together Treaty

Answer 9

Confederate States of America

Hint: Con- means Together; -Fed means Treaty

Question 10

What was the main point of the Republican Party platform?

Answer 10

Stop westward expansion of slavery

Question 11

How did the South “protest” Lincoln’s candidacy?

Hint: How do you stop someone from being elected?

Answer 11

Didn’t put him on ballot

Hint: You can’t be elected if not on the ballot

Question 12

True or False: Lincoln was an abolitionist.

Answer 12

False

Question 13

What state had a mini civil war between slave owners and abolitionists took place?

Hint: What is a result of war?

Answer 13

“Bleeding” Kansas

Hint: Bodies bleed in wartime

Question 14

Who was taken by his owner into a free state and sued for his freedom?

Hint: State, Sued

Answer 14

Dred Scott

Hint: State, Sued

Question 15

Who was a violent white abolitionist that murdered at least five slave owners in Kansas?

Hint: Song

Answer 15

John Brown

Hint: John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave,
His soul’s marching on.

Question 16

What did John Brown raid due to his plans to start a slave rebellion?

Answer 16

Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry

Question 17

Who did Lincoln run against and lose to after a series of debates?

Hint: Series of Debates

Answer 17

Stephan Douglas

Hint: Stephan Douglas

Question 18

What is the word for someone who dies for a cause?

Answer 18

Martyr

Question 19

How was Charles Sumner almost killed by Preston Brooks on the floor of Congress?

Hint: Charles Sumner Congress

Answer 19

Caned

Hint: Caned

Question 20

What compromise in 1820 designated what parts of the Louisiana Territory would be free or slave?

Hint: State after Louisiana

Answer 20

Missouri

Hint: M comes after L

Question 21

To appease the North, this was proposed to make all land from Mexico be free.

Hint: Proposed

Answer 21

Wilmot Proviso

Hint: Proviso

Question 22

After the Mexican-American War, the US owned land from…

Hint: East to West

Answer 22

The Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

Question 23

What political group wanted to keep the West for whites so that they did not have to compete for jobs?

Answer 23

Free Soil Party

Question 24

What is another word for letting the people rule?

Hint: A lot of people like

Answer 24

Popular Sovereignty

Hint: Popul- means people

Question 25

Who faced strong Nativism in California?

Answer 25

Asians

Question 26

Why were people drawn to California in 1848? ## Footnote **Hint:** What is 1849 California known for?

Answer 26

Gold Rush

Question 27

Did California want to be a slave or free state?

Answer 27

Free

Question 28

What agreement gave the U.S. stronger fugitive slave laws?

Answer 28

Compromise of 1850

Question 29

Who were settlers that traveled out West using routes like the Oregon Trail? ## Footnote **Hint:** Across

Answer 29

Overlanders ## Footnote **Hint:** Over- means across

Question 30

What book angered the North and led to hatred of slavery?

Answer 30

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 31

What prevented war with England?

Answer 31

Oregon Treaty

Question 31

Name California's revolution for its own independence. ## Footnote **Hint:** California's flag

Answer 31

Bear Flag Revolt ## Footnote **Hint:** Look up California's flag

Question 31

The United States believed our border with Mexico went to the Rio Grande River while Mexico believed it only went to the ___________. ## Footnote **Hint:** Letter after M

Answer 31

Nueces River ## Footnote **Hint: M**exico, **N**ueces River

Question 32

Annexing Texas angered what two groups of people? ## Footnote **Hint:** M & N

Answer 32

* Mexicans * Anti-Slave Northerners ## Footnote **Hint: M**exicans and **N**ortherners

Question 33

Why did the Mormons go westward? ## Footnote **Hint:** What is Mormonism?

Answer 33

Start a new religion

Question 34

Who was the "Expansion President"?

Answer 34

James Polk

Question 35

What was the idea that Americans had a God-given right to conquer and civilize North America?

Answer 35

Manifest Destiny

Question 36

Why did the U.S. easily capture Mexico City the capital of Mexico?

Answer 36

It was unguarded

Question 37

What treaty led to the U.S. acquiring the Northern half of Mexico?

Answer 37

The Treaty of Hidalgo Guadalupe