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Antebellum America and the Civil War Essential Questions and Vocabulary
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History - How were people not directly exposed to slavery made aware of its harsh treatment of the
enslaved population?
History - To what extent was the coming of the Civil War already a foregone conclusion as early as
1850?
Geography - How did the government's approach to the funding of the different regions only serve
to worsen relationships between North and South?
Economics - What factors led to a continued push West even while sectional differences flared?
Economics - What were the fundamental differences in the development of the North and South in
the early 19th Century?
Culture - How did perspectives on the practice of slavery continue to develop in the decades
preceding the Civil War?
History - Why was slavery important to the southern states?
Geography - How did North Carolina's location influence its decision regarding whether or not to
secede?
Geography - How did the nation's investment in infrastructure during the first half of the 19th century
help the efforts of the Union Army?
Civics and Government - What were Lincoln's goals in writing the Emancipation Proclamation? Was
he successful in reaching them?
Civics and Government - How did the debate over slavery dominate American political decisions for
half a century and culminate in the Civil War?
Economics - Why were different regions of the United States reliant upon different economic
resources? How did these economic resources dictate political decision-making?
Culture - How did economic differences lead to societal conflicts?
Vocabulary Terms, Battles, and Key Individuals
History
Bleeding Kansas
Geography
Civics and Government
Sectionalism Missouri Compromise
Frederick Douglas
King Cotton
Sojourner Truth
Harper’s
Ferry
Texas and
the Mexican
Cession
Railroads
and Canals
John Brown
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
John Wilkes Booth
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Compromise of 1850
Popular Sovereignty
Fugitive Slave Act
Culture
Economics
Underground
Cotton Gin
Railroad
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Abolitionist
Kansas Nebraska Act
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Secession
Emancipation
Proclamation
History - Battles: Fort Sumter, First Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, Appomattox Courthouse
Overview: The Causes of the Civil War
 How did the debate over slavery dominate American political decisions for half a century and
culminate in the Civil War?
 How did perspectives on the practice of slavery continue to develop in the decades
preceding the Civil War?
1. What are some of the horrors of slavery? List 4 or more factors
2. Slave marital were “Until death or ___________________________ do you part”
3. What did Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin do?
4. How did the Cotton Gin change slavery?
5. How many slaves were in America by 1860? _____________________________________
What fraction were they of the American population? _____________________________
6. What is an abolitionist?
7. Who was Frederick Douglas
8. How did the argument over slavery affect the feelings of Northerners and Southerners towards
each other?
9. Who was John Brown (more will shown later)
10. What did Abraham Lincoln believe about slavery?
11. What effect did Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin have on the US and the
world?
12. IN 1854, CONGRESS ALLOWED SETTLERS IN THE KANSAS AND NEBRASKA
TERRITORIES TO DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES WHETHER OR NOT TO PERMIT
__________________. KANSAS EXPLODED. 5,000 PROSLAVERY MEN INVADED THE
TERRITORY. IN THE NEXT 3 MONTHS, 200 MEN DIED IN __________ _____________.
13. IN 1857, THE SUPREME COURT REFUSED TO FREE A SLAVE, ___________________,
EVEN THOUGH HE HAD LIVED FOR MANY YEARSON FREE SOIL. CHIEF JUSTICE
ROGER B. TANEY SAID “A BLACK MAN HAD ____ _______________A WHITE MAN
WAS BOUND__ ______________________.
14. What did Abraham Lincoln mean in his “House Divided speech”?
15. What did John Brown do in 1859 at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia?
16. How did John Brown’s raid affect Southerners?
17. In 1860, the Republican Party chose Abraham Lincoln as its Presidential candidate.
How many southern states did not even have him on their ballots? __________
What percentage of the vote did Lincoln get in winning the election? ____________
Which state was the 1st to seceded (leave the US)? __________________________
18. Southerners would have told you that they were fighting for _________________________
19. When Abraham Lincoln was elected there were __________ states in the Union and Kansas
would make the ____________. When Lincoln was inaugurated, there were only ________
states in the Union.
20. Who was Jefferson Davis?
21. "OUR NEW GOVERNMENT IS FOUNDED UPON THE GREAT TRUTH THAT THE
NEGRO IS NOT _______________ TO THE _______________ MAN." By VICE
PRESIDENT ALEXANDER STEPHENS.
Economic and Technological Change:
 The Industrial Revolution: Manufacturing interchangeable parts by factories to mass produce goods
like textiles/clothes, trains, and muskets. Factories and higher wages draw Americans away from
their farms to cities and also attracted immigrants.
 The Cotton gin separated cotton seeds from its lint and made cotton clothing hugely popular and
profitable. Racism frequently made whites feel ashamed to do the same type of work as the
enslaved.
 Railroads, steamboats, and canals linked much of the North and Midwest together, promoting
trade and profits. Southern cotton was sent north and to Europe.
 The telegraph greatly increased the speed of communication and photography made leaders and
events visible to viewers hundreds/thousands of miles away
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