Download Civil War Test Review 1. Why did the South oppose protective tariffs

Civil War Test Review
1. Why did the South oppose protective tariffs on imported goods? (Tariff of
Abominations) (p. 365) –Tariff benefitted the North financially in clothing
sales, but hurt the South who received less money from their cotton
export to England.
2. What impact did slavery have for the Southern economy in the mid1800s? (p.333)-Slavery allowed plantation owners the potential to make
an incredible amount of money. Most of the South supported slavery as
a means to make profit.
3. On the issue of States’ Rights (10th Amendment), what were the
viewpoints of these men:
a. John C. Calhoun(p. 366-367) –for States’ Rights; reintroduced the
States’ Rights argument
b. Henry Clay (think about this one p. 342; 445) –against States’
Rights; more for government compromises
c. Daniel Webster (p. 366) –against States’ Rights; more for
government control
4. What were the main parts of the Missouri Compromise (1820)? (p. 342343) –Maine is non-slave; Missouri allows slavery; Missouri Compromise
Line divides the Louisiana territory (North is free; South is slave)
5. Who wrote the Missouri Compromise (1820) and the Compromise of
1850? (p. 445) –Henry Clay
6. What were the main parts of the Compromise of 1850? (p. 445)
-California would be a non-slave state; The Mexican Cession territories
would be open to popular sovereignty on the issue of slavery; Slavery
business banned in Washington, D.C.; tougher Fugitive Slave Act
7. What was the main provision of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? (p. 447) –For
theses territories (Northern portion of Louisiana Territory), they left the
decision of slave statehood to popular sovereignty
8. What were the main points of the Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court
case? (p. 452) –Slaves are not citizens, but property; slaves cannot sue;
slaves living in free states are still slaves; Missouri Compromise (1820) is
unconstitutional
9. How did John Brown contribute to the cause of the Civil War ? (p. 449) –
radical abolitionist who stormed Harper’s Ferry, his actions gave reason
for the South to fear abolitionists
10. How did each of these lend a cause to the Civil War:
a. Sectionalism (p. 341) –growing allegiance to one section of
America, divides American pride
b. Slavery (p. 333)-North abolished slavery, South accepts slavery;
divides America
c. States’ Rights (p. 366) –North embraces strong government
power; South rejects strong government for their own state’s
laws
11. Why did the South fear Lincoln’s winning the presidential election? –The
South feared Lincoln would abolish slavery in the South (hurting the
finances of the South [again])
12. For these abolitionists, write their contribution to end slavery:
a. Fredrick Douglass(p. 425) –wrote autobiography and was a wellknown and respected orator
b. Harriet Beecher Stowe (p. 447) –authored Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(best-selling book describing horrible slave life)
c. William Lloyd Garrison (p. 424) –publisher of a newspaper
speaking out against slavery(a dangerous thing to do back then)
d. Harriet Tubman(p, 426) – famous and successful conductor of the
Underground Railroad
13. What role did these men have in the Civil War: (p. really?)
a. Abraham Lincoln –president of the Union North
b. Jefferson Davis- president of the Confederate South
c. Ulysses S. Grant – General of the Union
d. Robert E. Lee – General of the Confederates
14. In Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, what was his opinion of: (p. 459)
a. Slavery – slavery was okay
b. States’ Rights (secession) – keep the states from seceding
15. In Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, what order did he give for
slavery? (p. 488) – All slaves in the Confederate states are free from
slavery
16. In Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, what was his main points? (p. 497)Lincoln declares that “all men are created equal,” and for America to
continue to fight for democracy.
17. In Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, what was his opinion of:
a. Treatment of the Confederate States of America (p. 509)- Lincoln
wanted to bring back the South into the United States, and to
treat them as friends (no hard feelings)
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