Unit 1 & 2 Antebellum South War with Mexico Pre-Civil War U.S. Civil War 1pt 1 pt 1 pt 1pt 1 pt 2 pt 2 pt 2pt 2pt 2 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 4 pt 4 pt 4pt 4 pt 4pt 5pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt

What was the 3/5 Compromise?

Rate at which slaves counted towards population

What was the goal of the first Continental Congress?

To get the Intolerable Acts repealed

This law forbade the colonists to settle west of the Appalachians.

Proclamation Act of 1763

What was the long term impact of Bacon’s Rebellion?

It would lead to slave labor in the colonies

What did Hamilton use as his backing for A National Bank?

The Constitution did not forbid it.

What does the term Antebellum mean?

Pre-Civil War

Why were there not more slave rebellions in the South?

Whites made it difficult, fear of the unknown, hard to communicate

What impact did Whitney’s Cotton Gin have on Slavery

It made getting cotton easier therefore a need for more slaves

Why did industry not catch on as much in the south?

Economy set up for cotton and other products, more rural and spread out.

Why could one argue a slave owner had to treat his slaves better than a factory owner his workers?

Had a lot of money tied up in the slaves

This is the belief that God gave Americans the right to expand West

Manifest Destiny

Why was adding Texas as a state so controversial?

Many did not want it as a slave state

What was a cause of the War with Mexico?

Texas, California, unpaid land claims

Once fighting began, why were Lincoln and the Whigs against War?

They felt we might have caused the Mexicans to fire first by being on their land

What was the name of the treaty that ended the War with Mexico?

Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty of 1848

What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe Author?

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Though the Wilmot Proviso did not pass the Senate what did it show?

Slavery was a major issue in the U.S.

What law basically repealed the Missouri Compromise?

Kansas Nebraska Act

What was the impact of the Dred Scott Case?

The federal government does not have the authority to prevent people from owning slaves

What was the significance of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

Though Lincoln lost the election for senate, he legitimized his candidacy for president in 1860

Give one reason why someone in the North would fight in the Civil War

Keep Union together, End Slavery

What was one advantage the South had in the Civil War?

Home-Field Advantage, Generals

What was one part of the Anaconda Plan?

Cut the South in Half, Take Miss Cut the South in Half, Take Miss. River, blockade the coast of the South

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Freed the slaves in rebelling States

What was ironic about the South’s success in the early part of the war

Had they lost quickly, slavery would have stayed longer.