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Social Studies Graduation Exam Study Guide
Chapter Five: Secession and Resistance
Name: __________________________________
Directions: Answer the following completely as you read pages 62-69 of the grad exam
workbook.
1.
What does the word ‘secede’ mean?
2.
The South based its economy on _________________ while the North based
its economy on ____________________.
3.
What is the name of the tax levied (placed) on foreign companies that bring
products into the United States to sell them?
4.
Which side favored high tariffs? Which side favored low tariffs?
5.
The ________________ Compromise allowed Missouri to be admitted as a
slave state while the state of _________________ was admitted as a free state.
According to the Compromise, all states north of the 30-degree longitude line
would be ____________ states and all states sough of that line would be
_____________________ states.
6.
The Compromise of 1850 allowed which state into the union as a free state?
7.
What does the term popular sovereignty mean?
8.
Which two territories were allowed to determine whether they want slavery or
not with the Compromise of 1850?
9.
What laws (which were very unpopular in the North) mandated that northern
cities forcibly return slaves to their owners in the South?
10.
Which act allowed the previously free and unorganized territories of Kansas
and Nebraska to choose whether or not to permit slavery?
11.
Kansas became known as ________________ as armed clashes between proslavery forces and abolitionist settlers became commonplace.
12.
Which party began by opposing slavery’s expansion into the newly acquired
American territories?
13.
What happened to Republican Senator Charles Sumner?
14.
The Dred Scott Decision by the Supreme Court led to turmoil in the United
States. Dred Scott, a slave in Missouri who was taken by his owner into a
northern state, sued to get his freedom. The Supreme Court made 4 major
rulings in that 1857 case. What were they?
1.
2.
3.
4.
15.
Who ran against and debated Abraham Lincoln for a Senate seat in Illinois
and participated with Lincoln in a series of public debates?
16.
Describe the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
17.
Who stated the Freeport Doctrine and what was the doctrine about?
18.
Who was John Brown?
19.
Explain the difference in views of the Northern Democrats and the Southern
Democrats in the election of 1860?
20.
Who was the Republican candidate elected as president in 1860?
21.
Which southern state was the first to secede from the Union?
22.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
23.
Where was the first capitol of the Confederate States of America located?
24.
Which president blamed the abolitionists for the critical condition of the
nation leading up to the Civil War?
25.
True or False. Lincoln would not allow the Southern states to secede from the
Union without a fight.
26.
The attack at ________________ by Confederate soldiers began the Civil
War.
27.
What years were the Civil War?
28.
Which county in Alabama proclaimed its neutrality during the Civil War?
29.
Which counties in Virginia tried to form a separate government in support of
the Union when Virginia joined the Confederacy?
30.
What did these counties eventually become in 1863?
31.
What advantages did the North have in the Civil War?
32.
What was the North’s number one goal in the Civil War?
33.
What three things did the North need to do to accomplish its goal?
34.
What was the North’s Anaconda Plan?
35.
What was the South’s major goal in the Civil War?
36.
What two things did the South need to do to accomplish its goal?
37.
What two advantages did the South have in the Civil War?
38.
Did most people think at the beginning of the Civil War that it would be a
rather quick and decisive war?