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Boucher Chapter 1
Mrs. Gretchen's Pre-Civil War study cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the Antebellum Period? | It was a time of great economic prosperity for the South. |
| What goals did the abolitionists want to achieve? | They wanted to end slavery because they believed it was morally wrong. |
| Why did most white southerners oppose getting rid of slavery? | They knew the South's economy depended on slavery. |
| African Americans who lived in the North could not enjoy this freedom. | African Americans couldn't send their children to the same schools as white children. |
| How did the South view the role of states' rights verses federal power? | The South believed the state government should have control over all the laws that affected the state, including laws about slavery. |
| How did the addition of new territory in the United States affect the expansion of slavery? | When new states and territories were added, the free states outnumbered the slave states in the country. |
| This is not a reason why southerners wanted to leave the Union. | They did not want new states and territories to be admitted into the Union. |
| How was the Confederacy government different from the Union government? | In the Confederacy, each state was independent and able to govern itself. |
| Why didn't Tennessee decide to secede right away? | Tennessee was a Border State, Tennesseans were divided over the issue of slavery. |
| What event led to Tennessee's secession from the Union? | Tennessee seceded when Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 volunteers to help put down the southern rebellion. |
| Why did Lincoln declare war on the southern states? | He viewed the South's secession as a rebellion of traitors who needed to be stopped. |
| Why did the southerners believe they would be able to win the Civil War? | They were more familiar with the land where the battles would be fought. |
| Why did Lincoln want the Border States to side with the Union during the war? | The Border States had almost as many factories as the entire South and provided access to the Ohio River. |
| How did Tennessee become even further divided after the state seceded from the Union? | Tennesseans who did not want to secede broke away from the state to form their own separate nations. |
| Why were Angelina and Sarah Grimke so against slavery even though they grew up on a plantation? | The Grimke sisters saw the horrors of slavery first hand. |
| Why was the book, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe so instrumental in the abolitionist movement? | Before the book many people of the North were unaware of the evils of slavery. |
| What advantages did the North have in the Civil War? | The North had more men, more money, and more factories for making supplies. |
| What did Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass have in common? | They were both abolitionists that escaped slavery. |
| Who were Johnny Reb and Billy Yank? | They were fictional characters in a book that represented the North and the South. |
| Why did East Tennessee disagree about secession and what was the name of the state that tried to secede from Tennessee? | East Tennessee didn't depend as strongly on slave labor, and the state called, "The Free and Independent State of Scott" tried to secede from Tennessee. |
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