What is --the North was mainly an urban society in which people heldjobs ?
Question 2
Describe the South beforethe Civil War.
Answer 2
What is --the South was primarily anagricultural society in which peoplelived in small villages and on farmsand plantations ?
Question 3
Describe the economy of the North.
Answer 3
What is --the North was a manufacturing region, and its people favored tariffs that protected factory owners and workers from foreign competition ?
Question 4
Describe the economy of the South.
Answer 4
What is --Southerners opposed tariffsthat would cause prices of manufacturedgoods to increase. Planters were alsoconcerned that England might stop buying cotton from the South if tariffswere added ?
Question 5
Define tariff.
Answer 5
What is --a fee placed on goods ?
Question 6
This was the important constitutionalconflict between the North and theSouth.
Answer 6
What is --states’ rights, which the South favored, versus strong central government, which the North favored ?
Question 7
This is considered a mainreason of the Civil War.
Answer 7
What is --slavery ?
Question 8
The South felt this way about slavery.
Answer 8
What was --that the abolition of slaverywould destroy their region’s economy?
Question 9
The North felt this way about slavery.
Answer 9
What is --that slavery should beabolished for moral reasons ?
Question 10
The South felt this way about theFederal government.
Answer 10
What is --that Southerners had the power to declare any national lawillegal ?
Question 11
The North felt this way aboutthe Federal government.
Answer 11
What is --that the national government’s power was supreme over that of the states ?
Question 12
These were the four dividing issuesbetween the North and the South thatled to the Civil War.
Answer 12
What were 1. slavery 2. economic issues
3. cultural issues4. Constitutional issues ?
Question 13
Explain the Missouri Compromise.
Answer 13
What is --Missouri became a slavestate and Maine a free state?
Question 14
The Missouri Compromise occurredin this year.
Answer 14
What was --1820 ?
Question 15
Explain the Compromise of 1850.
Answer 15
What is --California was a free state and the Southwest territories woulddecide for themselves about slavery ?
Question 16
Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Answer 16
What is --the people decided the slavery issue (“popular sovereignty”) ?
Question 17
Define popular sovereignty.
Answer 17
What is --the people have the decision by voting ?
Question 18
Define succession.
Answer 18
What is --to leave being a part of a group ?
Question 19
This event started the Civil War.
Answer 19
What is --following Lincoln’s election,the southern states seceded from theUnion and Confederate forces attackedFort Sumter in South Carolina ?
Question 20
Lincoln and other Northerners felt this about secession.
Answer 20
What is --they believed that the United States was one nation thatcould not be separated or divided ?
Question 21
Southerners felt this way about secession.
Answer 21
What was --they believed that states had freely created and joined the union and could freely leave it ?
Question 22
Name the states which secededfrom the Union.
Answer 22
What were 1. Alabama2. Arkansas 3. Florida 4. Georgia5. Louisiana 6. Mississippi7. North Carolina 8. South Carolina9. Tennessee 10. Texas 11. Virginia ?
Question 23
These states were border states that stayed in the Union.
Answer 23
What were 1. Delaware 2. Kentucky 3. Maryland 4. Missouri ?
Question 24
This new state was formed atthe beginning of the Civil War.
Answer 24
What was --West Virginia ?
Question 25
Identify Jefferson Davis.
Answer 25
Who was --the president of the Confederate States of America?