Download Answer - Humble ISD

Road to Civil War Review
Group 1
1. Which constitutional principle was at the heart of the sectional
argument that eventually led to the Civil War?
Answer: Federalism (the balance of power between the Federal
Government and the State Governments.)
Group 1
2. Why did many people in both the North and the South believe
that it was vitally important to maintain an equal number of Free
States and Slave States?
Answer: Each was afraid that the other group would gain power
over the other within Congress.
Group 1
3. What was the primary goal that Abraham Lincoln expressed to
the nation in his First Inaugural Address?
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies.
Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of
affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every
battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone
all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union,
when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of
our nature.”
Answer: Restoring the Union
Group 1
4. Who was Jefferson Davis?
Answer: The President of the Confederacy
Group 2
5. What was the primary goal that Jefferson Davis expressed to
the nation in his Inaugural Address?
“As a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of
separation; and henceforth our energies must be directed to the
conduct of our own affairs and the perpetuity of the Confederacy
which we have formed.”
Answer: For the Confederacy to maintain its independence.
Group 2
6. Throughout the years leading up to the Civil War, Southern
states insisted that the states in the U.S. were entitled to have
greater power. What term was used to describe their view on this
subject?
Answer: States Rights
Group 2
7. What was the primary message of Lincoln’s “House Divided”
speech during the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this
government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I
do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the
house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will
become all one thing or all the other.”
Answer: The nation is at a crossroads, and it can no longer
remain divided on the issue of slavery. The nation as a whole
must now decide whether to embrace slavery, or reject it.
Group 2
8. What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
Answer: Federal law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850,
that gave slave catchers from the South the right to apprehend
runaway slaves from anywhere in the U.S.
Group 3
9. What effect did the cotton gin have on labor in the South?
Answer: It caused the demand for slave labor to increase.
Group 3
10. What group of people maintained political power throughout
the South?
Answer: Planter Aristocracy
Group 3
11. In what way did the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin increase
sectional tensions between the North and the South?
Answer: It convinced more people to join the Abolitionist
Movement, which in turn made pro-slavery southerners
increasingly defensive about their right to own slaves.
Group 3
12. What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Answer: Federal law passed in 1854, which mandated that
slavery in the new territories would be determined by popular
sovereignty (the inhabitants of the territory would vote to decide).
Group 4
13. What was meant by the phrase “Bleeding Kansas”?
Answer: A violent clash between pro-slavery southerners called
“Border Ruffians” and anti-slavery northerners called “FreeSoilers” over the issue popular sovereignty in Kansas.
Group 4
14. Why did the acquisition of new land in the west cause
sectional tensions between the North and the South to increase?
Answer: Anti-slavery Northerners wanted slavery to be banned
in the western territories while pro-slavery Southerners wanted
slavery to be legal in the western territories.
Group 4
15. What was the Wilmot Proviso?
Answer: A bill that would have, if it had passed, prohibited
slavery in any territory gained from the Mexican-American War.
The Proviso had the effect of greatly intensifying the debate over
slavery in the U.S.
Group 4
16. Explain the Supreme Court ruling of Dred Scott v Sanford.
Answer: The court ruled that Americans of African descent,,
were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court,
and that the Federal Government lacked power to ban slavery in
the U.S. territories.
Group 5
17. What happened at the Democratic National Convention in
1860?
Answer: The party split over how the legality of slavery in the
territories should be determined. One faction supported the
Kansas-Nebraska Act and the idea of determining slavery in the
territories through popular sovereignty, while the other faction
supported the Dred Scott decision which made any government
ban of slavery illegal.
Group 5
18. Who won the Presidential Election of 1860?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Group 5
19. What was South Carolina’s reaction to the Presidential
Election of 1860?
Answer: It made the decision to seceded from the Union.
Group 5
20. What seven states seceded from the Union during the
“Session Winter”?
Answer: South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia,
Florida, Louisiana, and Texas.
Group 6
21. What was the first battle of Civil War and which side initiated
the battle?
Answer: The Battle of Fort Sumter, which was initiated by the
South.
Group 6
22. What event caused Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, and North
Carolina, to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy?
Answer: Lincoln’s call for 75,000 volunteer soldiers to put down
the rebellion in the South.
Group 6
23. What is the difference between a primary source and a
secondary source?
Answer: A primary source is a source created by someone who
witnessed the event, while a secondary source is a source created
by someone who received their information about the event from
one or more other sources.
Group 6
24. What was the political platform of the Republican Party when
it was formed in 1854?
Answer: It was against the Kansas-Nebraska Act and wanted to
stop the spread of slavery.
Group 7
25. Who was John Brown and what was John Brown’s Raid?
Answer: John Brown was a violent abolitionist. John Brown’s
Raid was Brown’s failed attempt to capture the federal arsenal at
Harper’s Ferry, VA in 1859 for the purpose of initiating a massive
slave revolt in the South.
Group 7
26. Who was Fredrick Douglass?
Answer: Former slave and leader of the Abolitionist Movement.
Group 7
27. Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Answer: Abolitionist who wrote the bestselling book Uncle
Tom’s Cabin in 1853.
Group 7
28. Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
Answer: Abolitionist leader who published the abolitionist
newspaper The Liberator.
Group 8
29. How did the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator increase
sectional tensions between the North and the South?
Answer: It convinced more people to join the Abolitionist
Movement, which in turn made pro-slavery southerners
increasingly defensive about their right to own slaves.
Group 8
30. Who was Harriet Tubman?
Answer: Former slave who became a leader of the Underground
Railroad.
Group 8
31. What were the four agreements that were included in the
Compromise of 1850?
Answer:
1. California was admitted to the Union as a Free State.
2. The size of Texas was reduced.
3. Slave trade was abolished in Washington D.C.
4. Fugitive Slave Act was passed: gave slave catchers the right to hunt
down slaves anywhere in the U.S.
Group 8
32. Define popular sovereignty.
Answer: Power comes from the people. With the KansasNebraska Act, the people living in a given territory would
determine whether they would become a free state or a slave state
through popular sovereignty (they would vote to decide).