Chapter 16 Test: Causes of the Civil War Flashcards
The student will analyze the social and political transformation of the United States as a result of the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War during the period of 1850 to 1865.
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| 1349354570 | Compromise of 1850 | Developed by Henry Clay admitting California as a free state, passed the Fugitive Slave Act , banning slave trade in DC, and instating popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession. | 0 | |
| 1349354571 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that highly influenced Northern view on the American Deep South and slavery. it described the evils of slavery and promoted abolition. | 1 | |
| 1349354572 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | Introduced by Stephen Douglas in 1854 in which Nebraska and Kansas became states and gave them right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. Led to "Bleeding Kansas". | 2 | |
| 1349354573 | Popular sovereignty | The power of the government is expressed by voting and free participation of the people in government. | 3 | |
| 1349354574 | Missouri Compromise | Kept the balance in the senate which allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30' within the Louisiana Territory (1821). | 4 | |
| 1349354575 | Bleeding Kansas | The virtual civil war that erupted in Lawrence, Kansas in 1856 between pro-slavery and free soilers as a consequence of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. | 5 | |
| 1349354576 | Dred Scott v Sanford | 1857 Supreme Court decision that stated slaves were not citizens: slaves were property no matter where they were living and the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. | 6 | |
| 1349354577 | John Brown's Raid | In October 1859 this militant abolitionist seized the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry with the plan to end slavery by massacring slave owners and freeing their slaves. He was captured and executed, but became a martyr to the abolitionist cause. | 7 | |
| 1349354578 | Election of 1860 | With less than half of the popular vote and no Southern electoral votes, Republican party Abraham Lincoln defeated the other three candidates in this election. | 8 | |
| 1349354579 | Fort Sumter | Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War. | 9 | |
| 1349354580 | Sectionalism | This is the belief that your part of the country is more important than the needs of the rest. | 10 | |
| 1349354581 | The North | Factories Railroads Canals High Population Density | 11 | |
| 1349354582 | The South | King Cotton Plantations Trade with England Dependent on slavery | 12 | |
| 1349354583 | The West | New Territory Hunting and Trapping Small Farms Low Population Density | 13 | |
| 1349354584 | The North | Which area of the country had to most advantages when it came to resources and industries. | 14 | |
| 1349354585 | Tariffs | These are taxes on goods brought into the country. | 15 | |
| 1349354586 | State's Rights | In 1832, South Carolina used this a reason to nullify or cancel the federal law on tariffs they felt were unfair. | 16 | |
| 1349354587 | Nullification Crisis | This event in 1832-33 was over the tariff policy by the federal government, during Jackson's presidency which prompted South Carolina ignore federal law and possible secession, Andrew Jackson threatened to use military force. | 17 | |
| 1349354588 | Slavery | A system in which Africans were forced to work on the plantations or in households of another person. They were a group of people owned by others, they were considered property. | 18 | |
| 1349354589 | Fugitive Slave Act | In 1850 a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders. | 19 | |
| 1349354590 | Frederick Douglas | American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He founded the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star. | 20 | |
| 1349354591 | Harriet Tubman | A former escaped slave, she was one most successful conductors of the Underground Railroad, leading 300 slaves to freedom. Southern plantations owners had a bounty on her dead or alive. | 21 | |
| 1349354592 | William Lloyd Garrison | Best known for the editor of the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator. He promoted the idea of "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States. | 22 | |
| 1349354593 | Secede | Many Southern states had warned they were going to do this-withdraw- from the Union if Lincoln won the election. | 23 | |
| 1349354594 | Crittenden Plan | This last compromise on slavery proposed a constitutional amendment recognizing slavery in all territory south of 36 degrees 30 minutes latitude (the Missouri Compromise line), and an unalterable amendment protecting slavery in slave states. Never passed Congress and the Republicans rejected the plan. | 24 | |
| 1349354595 | South Carolina | After the election of Abraham Lincoln this state led the way in seceding from the Union in December 1860. | 25 | |
| 1349354596 | Confederate States of America | A republic formed in February of 1861 and composed of the eleven Southern states that seceded from the United States. | 26 | |
| 1349354597 | Jefferson Davis | First and only president of the Confederate States of America after the election of President Abraham Lincoln in 1860 led to the secession of many southern states. | 27 |
