Events Leading to the Civil War

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Events Leading to the Civil War
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Between 1800 and 1850, what region developed an
industrial economy based on manufacturing?

• The North

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Which region favored high protective tariffs?

• The North

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Define protective tariffs.

• Taxes on imports which are so high that Americans
  cannot afford to buy foreign goods

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What was the basis of the Souths economy?

• Agriculture (Farming)
• Plantations that used slave labor

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Did the South support or oppose high tariffs?

• Opposed

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Why did the South oppose high tariffs?

• Made manufactured goods more expensive

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As the U.S. expanded westward, what conflict
threatened to tear the country apart?

• Slavery

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Define abolitionists.

• People who wanted to abolish (end) slavery
  immediately

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Who was one of the most important abolitionist
leaders?

• William Lloyd Garrison

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What was the name of the antislavery newspaper in
Boston?

• The Liberator

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Who published The Liberator?

• William Lloyd Garrison

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Who wrote Uncle Toms Cabin?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Describe Uncle Toms Cabin.

• An antislavery novel
• Told the cruelties of slavery

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How did Uncle Toms Cabin affect the North?

• Made Northern abolitionists mad
• Caused many more Northerners to support the
  Abolitionist movement

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How did the Abolitionist movement affect
Southerners?

• Frightened them

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What kind of rebellions did Southerners fear?

• Slave Rebellions

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Who was Gabriel Prosser?
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• African-American slave
• Planned a slave revolt in Richmond, Va.
• Revolt crushed by Va. militia
• Prosser and 35 slaves were executed

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Who was Nat Turner?
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• An African-American slave
• Led a slave revolt in Southampton County, Va.
• Killed 55 whites
• 100 blacks were killed
• Turner was captured and executed

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What were two effects of Nat Turners Rebellion?

• Increased Southern fears of Slave Rebellions
• Southern states passed stricter slave codes

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Who proposed the Missouri Compromise?

• Henry Clay

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What were the 3 parts of the Missouri Compromise?
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• Missouri became a slave state
• Maine became a free state
• Louisiana Territory was divided at the 36 degree,
  30 minute parallel north of the line must be
  free territory south of the line could be slave
  territory

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How many U.S. senators does each state have?

• Two

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What balance did the Missouri Compromise maintain?

• Balance of power in Senate between the North and
  the South

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Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?

• Henry Clay

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Who have historians called the Great
Compromiser?

• Henry Clay

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What were the key points of the Compromise of
1850?
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• California became a free state
• Stronger fugitive slave law
• Abolished the slave trade, but not slavery
  itself, in the District of Columbia
• Created the Utah and New Mexico territories
  decide slavery by popular sovereignty

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What did the new Fugitive Slave Act do?
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• Made it easier for slave catchers to capture and
  return runaway slaves
• Required escaped slaves to be forcibly returned
  to their owners in the South

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Who hated the Fugitive Slave Act?

• Northerners

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What was popular sovereignty?

• The people of a territory would decide whether
  they wanted slavery

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Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Stephen Douglas, Democrat (Illinois)

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What is a bill?

• A proposed law

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What is an act?

• A Law

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Identify the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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• Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
• Said popular sovereignty would decide slavery in
  both Kansas and Nebraska
• Since both Kansas and Nebraska were north of the
  Missouri Compromise line, the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  repealed the Missouri Compromise

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What effect did the Kansas-Nebraska Act have on
the Missouri Compromise?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri
  Compromise.

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What broke out in the Kansas Territory?

• Civil war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery
  settlers

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What adjective was used to describe Kansas in the
mid-1850s?

• Bleeding Kansas

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What political party was formed in opposition to
the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• The Republican Party

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What were the two major results of the
Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Bleeding Kansas
• Republican Party

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What was the Supreme Courts decision in the Dred
Scott case?
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• Since Dred Scott was a slave, he could not sue in
  federal court
• African-Americans were not citizens of the United
  States
• Since Congress had no power to prohibit slavery
  in the territories, the Missouri Compromise was
  unconstitutional

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What did the Dred Scott decision say about the
Missouri Compromise?

• The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

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What power did the Supreme Court use in Dred
Scott v. Sandford?

• The power of judicial review

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In Dred Scott v. Sandford did the Supreme Court
rule that Scott should remain a slave or gain his
freedom?

• Remain a slave

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Which section liked the Dred Scott decision, the
North or the South?

• The South

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Which group(s) liked the Dred Scott decision?

• Abolitionists?
• Republicans?
• Slaves?
• Slaveholders?

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Slaveholders
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Who ran for the U.S. Senate against Stephen
Douglas in 1858?

• Abraham Lincoln

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In the Lincoln-Douglas debates who supported
popular sovereignty?

• Stephen Douglas

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In the Lincoln-Douglas debates who said, A house
divided against itself cannot stand?

• Abraham Lincoln

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In the Lincoln-Douglas debates who said the U.S.
could not continue half-free and half-slave?

• Abraham Lincoln

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Who won the 1858 Senate election in Illinois?

• Stephen Douglas

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In the 1850s what was the North increasingly
against?

• The Spread of Slavery to the West

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By the end of the 1850s, what did Southerners
argue states could do?

• States could nullify laws passed by Congress
• States could secede from the Union

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What did it mean for a state to nullify a law?

• Void it
• Do Away with it

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What did it mean for a state to secede?

• Leave the Union

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Who gave the House Divided speech in the 1858
Illinois Senate election campaign?

• Abraham Lincoln