The Road to the Civil War

Question 1

Popular Sovereignty...

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Allowed settlers in territory to decide for themselves

Question 2

What does Manifest Destiny mean?

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Idea that American settlers would expand from coast to coast

Question 3

In the 1850s, why did many runaway slaves go to Canada?

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The Fugitive Slave Act kept them at risk in the north

Question 4

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

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A document that freed all slaves

Question 5

He led a failed raid on a federal weapons arsenal in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia

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John Brown

Question 6

The Compromise of 1850 _____.

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admitted California to the Union as a free state

Question 7

He was elected president in 1860, causing several states to secede from the union

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Abraham Lincoln

Question 8

She helped runaway slaves escape to the North along the Underground Railroad

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Harriet Tubman

Question 9

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 10

President Lincoln wanted to prevent the expansion of slavery to the

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West

Question 11

What is sectionalism

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Loyalty to a certain region inside of a nation

Question 12

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this novel which detailed the evils of slavery

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 13

Mexican Cession

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region of southwest US that Mexico ceded or gave to US

Question 14

Which of the following was a benefit of controlling the Port of New Orleans?

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American ships would have access to the Mississippi River.

Question 15

Why was the port of New Orleans so important

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It was the main center for trade along the Mississippi River

Question 16

Agreement in which California became a free state in exchange for stricter fugitive slave laws

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Compromise of 1850

Question 17

The violence that erupted in Kansas in 1857 became known as

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Bleeding Kansas

Question 18

sectionalism means

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all of the above

Question 19

Dred Scott v Sandford

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Slaves are not citizens and therefore cannot sue anyone in court

Question 20

In order to escape the enforcement of strict fugitive slave laws, many runaway slaves moved to

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Canada

Question 21

The Louisiana purchase...

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doubled the size of the U.S. and gave control of the Mississippi River.

Question 22

The states that seceded from the United States formed the

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Confederate States of America

Question 23

One reason the plantation system developed in the south was that...

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climate and topography supported crops to require a large labor supply

Question 24

As a result of the Compromise of 1850, the slave trade was prohibited in

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Washington DC

Question 25

Who led Lewis and Clark to the Pacific?

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Sacajawea

Question 26

The Declaration of Sentiments, adopted at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, was significant

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because it promoted the idea of equal rights for women

Question 27

What was the Gold Rush

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A rapid movement of people westward to California for gold

Question 28

What is Manifest Destiny?

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Idea that Americans are destined to expand West

Question 29

Significance of the Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court Decision

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All enslaved Africans were legally property

Question 30

What did the Homestead Act do?

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Gave free land to Western settlers

Question 31

Confederate soldiers fired on Union troops at this fort, officially starting the Civil War

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Fort Sumter

Question 32

The Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 proclaimed that

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All men and women are created equal

Question 33

What was the Missouri Compromise?

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to keep a balance of free states, keep a balance between the number of slaves states

Question 34

What did the Compromise of 1850 do?

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Force northerners to return an escaped slave, Banned the SLAVE TRADE in Washington D.C, Allowed southerners to enter the north and capture escaped slaves, Admit California as a free state

Question 35

This was the first state to officially secede from the union

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South Carolina

Question 36

T/F: The Underground Railroad

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was made up of multiple routes, safehouses etc.

Question 37

After becoming president, Abraham Lincoln's primary goal was to

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Preserve the union

Question 38

Eli Whitney invented this, which helped to increase cotton production . . .

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Cotton gin

Question 39

What was Bleeding Kansas?

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A series of violent attacks between pro and anit-slavery advocates.

Question 40

Violence erupted in this state in 1857 between pro and anti-slavery forces

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Kansas

Question 41

What was Uncle Tom's Cabin about?

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The troubles that slaves faced on Southern plantations

Question 42

When people of Kansas voted whether to become a slave/free state, this was known as

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Popular sovereignty

Question 43

Democrat who had a series of debates with Abraham Lincoln and ran against him for president

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Stephen Douglas

Question 44

What did Lincoln mean when he said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand"?

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the country could not continue to be divided over slavery

Question 45

This abolitionist newspaper was owned by William Lloyd Garrison

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The Liberator

Question 46

A person who took part in the movement to end slavery was known as an

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Abolitionist

Question 47

Why was the Missouri Compromise important

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It equalized the power between the South and the North

Question 48

Lincoln was a member of this political party was against the expansion/spread of slavery

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Republican

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The Road to the Civil War

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