1.
United States History 1
Mid Term Exam Review
Why did slavery expand to the South?
Because the slave population was growing ,farming of codon was
decreasing. The geography of codon.
2. What group of people were the most powerful prior to the Civil War?
The plantation owners. Plantationers are more powerful than
manufacturers.
3. What was Harriet Tubman’s role during the 1800’s?
She was a scape slave. She was a guy on the underground railroad.
4. What was the intent of the novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin?”
to demonstrate how cruel was slavery.
5. What was the goal of William Lloyd Garrison?
End slavery immediately
6. Explain who Mr. Calhoun and Webster were.
They debate the compromise of 1850.
7. Explain the fugitive slave law.
This law stated that all escaped slaves would be returned to their
owners even if they were in the north where slaves were not
allowed
8. Explain the principle of “popular sovereignty,” as it pertains to the slave
issue. People have the rights to decide.
9. What were the sectional differences in the United States during the
1850’s thru the 1870’s? north was manucfacturing south was agriculturing.
10.
Explain John Brown’s raid. was an American revolutionary
abolitionist, who in the 1850s advocated and practiced armed
insurrection as a means to abolish slavery in the United States. was
an attempt by white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave
revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia
in 1859. Brown's raid was defeated by a detachment of U.S. Marines
led by Col. Robert E. Lee.
11. What individuals were happy with the Dred Scott decision? Why?
Southerns,It declared that slavery was protected by the Constitution,
and asserted that a black man should not be allowed to sue his
master.
12.
What three events tried to deal with the slavery issue?
Missouri compromise
compromise of 1850
dred scott decision
13.
What was Abraham Lincoln’s campaign for president based on?
ending slavery.
14.
What was Lincoln’s primary goal when he was elected president?
It was base on freeing slaves only on the southerns state.
15.
Explain the 13th, 14th and the 15th amendments The 13th
Amendment: officially ended slavery and prohibited it for the future.
The 14th Amendment: declared that former slaves were citizens and
required that states provide everyone equal protection under the law.
The 15th Amendment: guaranteed voting rights for citizens regardless
of race, color, or previous condition of servitude (slavery)
16.
Define and explain succession.
is the act or process of following in order or sequence.Succession
is a process of ecological change in which a series of natural
communities are established and then replaced over time.
17.
Name ALL Confederate States Alabama Arkansas Florida
Georgia Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina
Tennessee Texas Virginia
18.
What forced the Confederates to attack and start the Civil War?
for sumter battle.
19.
How did Abraham Lincoln violate the Constitution during the Civil
War? Why did he decide to violate the rights of the people?
because during war time he said you did not have the right to trial.
20.
Why did General Sherman destroy much of Georgia during his
march to the sea? it was a concept of total war.
21.
Why do Historians call the Civil War the last of the old-time wars
and the first of the modern ones?
they were all tactics and weapons.
22.
What was the major result of the Civil War?
slavery abolished
23.
What evidence shows reconstruction failed to provide lasting
guarantees of the civil rights of freedmen?
because they were not really free.
24.
Why did the 14th Amendment slow the process of amending the
Constitution?
states must provide equal protection to all people
25.
What did the poll taxes and grandfather clauses do for immigrants?
they couldn’t vote
26.
What were the “black codes an attempt to do in the south?
keep people in their place.. keep free black slaves.
27.
What was the main purpose of sharecropping in the South after
the Civil War? instead of working on plantation you work in someones
land.
28.
Explain and give several examples of Sherman’s march to the sea.
Total war, stealing.