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| 949657081 | What did Preston brooks do to Senator Sumner? | he comes up to sumner at his desk and starts beating him on the floor of congress | 0 | |
| 949657082 | Why does Brooks hit sumner w/ a cane? | b/c Sumner insulted Brook's cousin | 1 | |
| 949657083 | What are the events leading up to the war and their dates in order? | -Compromise of 1850 Uncle Tom's Cabin-1852 -Kansas-Nebraska Act-1854 -Dred Scott decision-1857 -John Bown's raid on Harper's ferry-1859 Lincoln Election- Nov. 1860 -S.C. Secession-Dec. 1860 | 2 | |
| 949657084 | What did the territory gained b/c of manifest destiny bring up the question about? | it brought up the question of whether the new territories would allow SLAVERY | 3 | |
| 949657085 | how many people does a state have to have to become a state? | 60,000 | 4 | |
| 949657086 | How does California increase the population so quickly and what does she asked to be admitted as? | the gold rush in Cali. rapidly increased the population and Cali. asked to be admitted as a free state | 5 | |
| 949657087 | Why does the south not what cali. to became a state? | b/c Cali. will be a free state | 6 | |
| 949657088 | What are the 4 compromises clay has? | -American system -Missouri Compromise -Tariff compromise -compromise of 1850 | 7 | |
| 949657089 | Since Cali is admitted as a free State b/c of Compromise of 1850 what does Clay do for the south? | he makes a stronger Fugitive Slave Act | 8 | |
| 949657090 | what does clays compromise of 1850 include? | -cali as free state-N -stronger fugitive slave act-S -Forbids trade in D.C-N -Texas receives $10 million-S -Land in mexican cession by popular sovereignty | 9 | |
| 949657091 | Why does Texas receive 10 million? | b/c they gave up land to prevent border dispute | 10 | |
| 949657092 | What is popular sovereignty? | People made decisions | 11 | |
| 949657093 | What are the people going to decide for the land in the mexican cession? | the people are going to decide whether the land should be slave/free | 12 | |
| 949657094 | What is the problem w/ the compromise of 1850? | no one wants to compromise anymore | 13 | |
| 949657095 | Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin? | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 14 | |
| 949657096 | What was Stowe's purpose for Uncle Tom's CAbin? | her purpose was to show how cruel slavery was | 15 | |
| 949657097 | Who did the Uncle Tom's Cabin make cry and what did this show? | it made Queen Victoria weep b/c it impacted her so much and it shows that it really impacted the people in the U.s. | 16 | |
| 949657098 | What does the NOrth do when the see the book? | the north beomces abolitionists and believes slaves should be set free | 17 | |
| 949657099 | What does the south say when they see the book? | they say that the North is sterotyping them and them and they become defensive -the majority of the south doesn't own slaves | 18 | |
| 949657100 | What did Stowe do by writing this book? | she turned a minor problem into a real big problem | 19 | |
| 949657101 | Why did Senator from Illinois, Stephen Douglas want to settle the unsettled land? | b/c he wanted to run a railroad from Chicago to California but it ran through the unsettled territory, which would be free land | 20 | |
| 949657102 | What was Douglas' solution to the unsettled land? | to settle the land by popular sovereignty and settle the question of slavery in the new territory | 21 | |
| 949657103 | What did Douglas say about the Missouri compromise? | he said ignore the Missouri compromise and allow the people to decide if the land should be free or slave | 22 | |
| 949657104 | What happened at "Bleeding Kansas?" | people were hacked to death | 23 | |
| 949657105 | What did the Republican Party oppose? | the republican party opposed the spread slavery | 24 | |
| 951825227 | Who is Dred Scott and why did he feel he should be free? | Dred scott is a slave who feels like he should be free because he was taken to the free land by his owner and he felt that he spent a good amount of time in the free land | 25 | |
| 951825228 | Where and does Scott takes his issue and in front of who? | he takes his case to the Supreme court in 1857 in front of Roger B. Taney | 26 | |
| 951825229 | What does the Supreme Court say? | "no black man has any right that a white man is bound to respect." this was the mind set back then | 27 | |
| 951825230 | What were the 2 results of the Scott case? | Scott is a slave (property) and has no rights; property can be taken where ever the owner what to take it -the 36 30 line (Missouri compromise) is declared unconstitutional b/c the owners can take slaves where ever they please | 28 | |
| 951825231 | Why did the north not like the court ruling and why did the south like it? | the north hated it b/c there is no legal way to stop slavery anymore -the south likes it because they can spread slavery to where ever they want to | 29 | |
| 951825232 | What is John Brown known as and why? | the "meteor" b/c he has a huge impact | 30 | |
| 951825233 | What does Brown do in Harpers ferry and when did he do it? | he comes to harpers ferry in 1859 w/ a wagon load of people for federal arsenal to take it over | 31 | |
| 951825234 | Why is brown trying to take over the federal arsenal? | he is doing something b/c the government isn't -he is taking the weapons out of the arsenal and giving them to the slaves so the slaves can free themselves | 32 | |
| 951825235 | In 11 states how many people are there and how many are slave? | in 11 states there are about 9 million people and about 4-4 1/2 are slaves | 33 | |
| 951825236 | how is john brown stopped? | people in harpers ferry call D.C. and tell D.C. that they need an army b/c Brown is taking over the arsenal. Robert E. Lee leads the army and captures Brown | 34 | |
| 951825237 | What is browns punishment | he is hung for treason | 35 | |
| 951825238 | What does Brown give to one of the guards and why? | he give the guard a note b/c he knows that the u.S. is going to go to war | 36 | |
| 951825239 | What does the north and south view Brown as? | the north sees him as a hero (martyr) the south is scared b/c they think someone is going to try and kill and the south forms a militia. Brown made them defensive w/ weapons | 37 | |
| 951825240 | What party is lincoln assocaited w/? | the republican party who opposes the spread of slavery | 38 | |
| 951825241 | What do southerners view lincoln as? | they view him as an abolitionist and they want to secede now | 39 | |
| 951825242 | When does S.C. secede? | they secede from the union on Dec. 20, 1860 right after Lincoln's election | 40 | |
| 951825243 | What happens after lincoln is inaugurated? | 6 more states secede | 41 | |
| 951825244 | why is James Buchanan the do nothing president? | he is the 15 president and he does not do anything when the states secede b/c he does not want to be the president when the country falls apart | 42 | |
| 951825245 | What is Jefferson Davis president of? | the confederacy and this shows that the south is serious b/c they make a capital, constitution, have a president and a cabinet | 43 | |
| 951825246 | Why does lincoln go to war? | not only b/c of slavery but mostly to keep the country united | 44 |
