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8 Hist Ch BJU AR
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A leading black abolitionist who escaped from slavery who was a talented speaker and lectured against slavery in the North and Great Britain? | Fredrick Douglass |
| Act of Congress that introduced popular Sovereignty. | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| An act whereby a state withdraws itself from the union. | Seccession |
| Associated with the Underground railroad. Once a slave herself. Became a conductor. | Harriet Tubman |
| Commanding Officer who was responsible for the capture of of the man at Harpers Ferry. | Robert E. Lee |
| Did not believe states had the right to secede but did nothing to prevent their doing so. | President Buchanan |
| Did the Bible condone slavery. | No |
| Elected to be the first president of the Cofederate States of America | Jefferson Davis |
| Former slave; lectured against slavery in Great Britain and the North. | Fredrick Douglass |
| How long was the term for a President in the Confederate States? | 1 term that was 6 years |
| Radical Abolitionist who believed in using violence in his cause; tried to spark a slave rebellion by capturing a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry. | John Brown |
| Ran for president in 1860 as a Constitutional Unionist. | John Bell |
| Ran for president in 1860 as a Northern Democrat. | Stephen Douglas |
| Ran for president in 1860 as a Republican. | Abraham Lincoln |
| Ran for president in 1860 as a Southern Democrat. | John C. Breckinridge |
| Slave states that divided the Northern states from the states of the Deep South. | Border States |
| Slave who sued for his freedom in what became a famous Supreme Court Case. | Dred Scott |
| Someone who opposes slavery and wanted to put an end to it completely was known as a ... | Abolitionist |
| The radical Southerners who advocated immediate secession if the Republicans won the election of 1860. | Fire-Eaters |
| The slaves' worst experience was crossing the Atlantic to America and it was called... | The Middle Passage |
| What did the Northerners base their views on and what did it say? | Article VI of the Constitution: That the Constitution is the supreme law of the land under God. |
| What did the quality of slave life in the South depend on? | Their master |
| What did the Southerners base their views on and what did it say? | Amendment X of the Constitution: That powers not delegated to the U.S. from the constitution nor prohibited by the States are reserved for the States and or the people. |
| What does Antebellum mean? | Before the war |
| What is an abolitionist? | Someone who wants to abolish slavery. |
| What party was the President and Vice President of the Confederate States of America. | Moderates |
| What single issue united the various groups that formed the Republican Party. | Antislavery |
| What state broke off from another state and joined the Union. | West Virginia from Virginia |
| What was an overseer? | Someone who distributed the work among the slaves and ensured that they did it as expected. |
| What was the gang system? | A group of slaves that worked from sun up to sundown or a set amount of time. |
| What was the name of the ship that carried supplies to Fort Sumter? | The Star of the West |
| What was the nickname of Kansas as a result of slavery there? | Bleeding Kansas |
| What was the North's biggest advantage? | Their tremendous industrial capacity |
| What was the significance of the Dred Scott decision? | Protected slavery in the territories. No citizenship to Blacks. It voided the Missouri compromise. |
| What was the South's 5 biggest advantages? | 1.Simple goal. Set up and defend a and independent nation. 2.Southerners would be defending their own homes. 3.Thought they would get foreign help. 4.Coastline was long. (and be difficult to blockade) 5.South believed they had better soldiers. |
| What was the task system? | The slaves would have a list of things to do so if they finished it they could have the rest of the day off. |
| What were the economies of the North and South. | South-Agriculture North- Industry |
| What were the Northern and Southern views of each other? | North thought that the South was unjust. South thought that the North was greedy. Each viewed each other as uncultured. |
| What were the three ways that Antebellum slavery differ from slavery before that? | 1. It involved only those from African descent. 2. It became a permanent condition for most slaves. 3. It was the result of buying stolen Africans and selling them. |
| What were wage slaves? | Workers in the North whose working and living conditions were very poor--enslaved by their poor wages |
| Where was Fort Sumter? | South Carolina, Charleston Harbor |
| Which man was a slave for the first 50 years of his life but managed to rise as a prominent preacher. | John Jasper |
| Which Massachusettes senator gave an angry speech on the fighting in Kansas and attacked South Carolina senator Andrew Butler. | Charles Sumner |
| Which South Carolina representative beat Sumner with his cane? | Preston Brooks |
| Who first published Uncle Tom's Cabin? | National Era |
| Who founded the abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator?" | William Lloyd Garrison |
| Who published the New York Tribune? | Horace Greely |
| Who surrendered Fort Sumter? | Robert Anderson a Union Major. |
| Who was Stephen Douglas and what philosphy did he apply? | An Illinois Senator who later ran for president and he applied popular sovereignty. |
| Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during Dred Scott's trial? | Roger B. Taney |
| Who was the governor of South Carolina? | F.W. Pickens |
| Who was the man who helped Robert E. Lee capture John Brown? | J.E.B. Stuart |
| Who was the Vice President of the Confederate States of America. | Alexander Stephens |
| Who were the most influential people in the North and South? | North-Owners of factories, railroads and other industries. |
| Who won the election of 1860? | Abraham Lincoln |
| Who wrote Uncle Tom's cabin? | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Why did the Bible cease to play a leading role in American public life? | Neither the North or the South could agree on what Scripture said because it didn't seem to condemn or condone slavery. |
| Why was the Middle Passage so terrible. | Slaves were cramped in tight spaces on the ship for weeks. Disease spread quickly and food was scarce. |
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