I FORM EXAM REVIEW

2008

Gibbs

QUESTION:

• What was the one thing that angered the Northerners so badly about the Compromise of 1850?

ANSWER:

• Fugitive Slave Law

QUESTION:

• What was the one thing about John Brown that angered the Southerners so badly?

ANSWER:

• Treated as a martyr.

QUESTION:

• What is popular soveregnty and how was it used in Chapter 14?

ANSWER:

• The people vote on the qustion of slavery

QUESTION:

• Who was the President of the Confederate States of America at the time of Seccession?

ANSWER:

• Jefferson Davis

QUESTION:

• What was the Act of Congress that said everything above this line is “Free” (except for one part) and everything below is “Slave”?

ANSWER:

• The Missouri Compromise

QUESTION:

• What was the proposal that said all land gained from the Mexican Cession should be FREE – no slavery?

ANSWER:

• Wilmot Proviso

QUESTION:

• Why was the Republican Party Started?

ANSWER:

• There was no political Party that took a firm stand on Anti-Slavery issues

QUESTION:

• Where were the first shots fired that triggered the un-official start of the Civil War?

ANSWER:

• Fort Sumter

QUESTION:

• Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act bother Northerners and please Southerners? What was its relationship with the Missouri Compromise?

ANSWER:

• Kansas Nebraska – these new territories will be pop sov.

• Undid the MO Comp.

QUESTION:

• Who was the mastermind behind the Kansas-Nebraska Act and why was he proposing it?

ANSWER:

• Stephen Douglas

• A railroad form Illinois to the Pacific

QUESTION:

• Now that Kansas is Popular Sovereignty – how did it get the nickname “Bleeding Kansas”?

ANSWER:

• People rushed to the land to cast their vote – tensions were high as our Country was split even more along the question of Slavery. Violence ensued.

QUESTION:

ANSWER:

QUESTION:

• Who was Dred Scott? Why was his situation noteworthy?

ANSWER:

• Slave. Moved from a slave state to a free state. Owner Died – he sued for his freedom.

QUESTION:

• Why was the US Constitution cited as a reason to keep Dred Scott in enslaved?

ANSWER:

• It protected property rights – and slaves were technically “property”

QUESTION:

• The Dred Scott Decision went a step further and said…

ANSWER:

• “Banning Slavery” is unconstitutional – it does not guarantee the rights to personal property – therefore – the MO comp is unconstitutional and everything will be pop sov.

QUESTION:

• What was significant about the presidential election of 1860 and why could it be referred to as “the straw that broke the camel’s back?”

ANSWER:

• Abe Lincoln won – who was a repulblica – which means he was anti slavery. The Southern states feared that the country was going in a direction that was not in tune with their way of life. Solution? Secede from the Union. Start the CSA.

QUESTION:

• There were a bunch of Southern States that seceded. They can be broken up into two different groups. What is the event that creates this division?

ANSWER:

• Fort Sumter

QUESTION:

• What is the definition of a “border state”?

ANSWER:

• A slave state that remained loyal to the Union

QUESTION:

• How did Virginia handle their disagreement within their state regarding slavery/seceding from the union?

ANSWER:

• The creation of West Virginia

QUESTION:

• The Free Soil party was made up of groups of people from what two political affiliations?

ANSWER:

• Anti-Slavery Whigs

• Northern Democrats

QUESTION:

• What were the two things included in the Compromise of 1850 that were designed to make the North happy?

ANSWER:

California admitted as a free state

Banned slave trade in Washington DC

QUESTION:

• What were the two things included in the Compromise of 1850 that were designed to make the South happy?

ANSWER:

• Popular Sovereignty for the Mexican Cession land

• Fugitive Slave law