1. Trashketball
Unit 5 Test

2. What was the underlying issue in the Brooks/Sumner conflict?

3. Slavery

4. Why did California’s population grow so quickly during the 1840s?

5. Gold Rush

6. What justification did South Carolina use when seceding from the Union?

7. States rights

8. What event directly caused South Carolina to secede?

9. Election of 1860

10. What event caused more African Americans to join the Union Army?

11. Emancipation Proclamation

12. How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the purpose of the Civil War?

13. Made the Union purpose to free the slaves instead of restore the Union

14. What occurred during Sherman’s March to the Sea?

15. The South’s environment and infrastructure were destroyed

16. What were the Union advantages during the Civil War?

17. Strategy, improved military leadership, industry, resources, manpower

18. What were the Southern advantages during the Civil War?

19. Better generals, commitment to the cause, agriculture , fighting defensively

20. What agreement guided whether a state would be a free or slave state until the 1850s?

21. The Missouri Compromise

22. List two causes of sectionalism

23. Westward expansion, different economies

24. What was the major result of the Mexican American War?

25. US gained land through the Mexican Cession which raised questions about slavery

26. During this time period, where did the United States start to look to trade outside its’ borders?

27. Asia (China, Japan)

28. Why did the Mexican American War begin?

29. Manifest destiny, America wanted to acquire California

30. What were slaveowners main arguments in favor of slavery?

31. Slavery was a positive good, slaves were better treated than industrial workers in the north

32. What were the main criticisms of Polk regarding the Mexican American War?

33. Took American interests away from the Pacific Northwest (Oregon); he deliberately started the war

34. What did the South get in return for California as a free state as part of the Compromise of 1850?

35. A stricter Fugitive Slave law

36. How would slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska territories be decided according to the Kansas Nebraska Act?

37. Popular sovereignty

38. What was the ruling in the Dred Scott case?

39. Slaves were property and could not sue

40. What act was technically declared unconstitutional by the Dred Scott decision?

41. Missouri Compromise

42. Why did the Whig Party dissolve?

43. They could not unite regarding their position on slavery

44. Why was the Free Soil Party antislavery?

45. They believed it took away wage labor from white workers

46. What book was published during the 1850s that brought widespread publicity to the abolition movement?

47. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

48. Why didn’t Britain support the Confederacy during the Civil War?

49. The people in Britain did not support slavery; they had a surplus and other sources of cotton