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Question 1 Conscience Whigs were
Northern Whigs who
Opposed Slavery
Question 2The Calhoun Resolutions were important because
they demonstratedThe anger many Southerners
felt about the issue of slavery
Question 3The original purpose of the Gadsden Purchase was to
Create a route for a railroad
Question 4After the Kansas-Nebraska
Act passed, Northerners headed for Kansas because
They wanted to create an antislavery majority there
Question 5In 1849 thousands of people
came to CA because
Gold had been discovered there
Question 6By rejecting the Lecompton Constitution, Kansas voters
Rejected slavery in their state
Question 7Crittenden’s Compromise
proposed toExtend the Missouri
Compromise line westward
Question 8The Know-Nothings were
Anti-Catholic & nativist
Question 9In his inaugural speech,
President Lincoln said what about slavery?
He repeated his commitment not to interfere with slavery
where it already existed
Question 10The Wilmot Proviso, which
never passed would have what?
Prohibited slavery in any territory gained from Mexico
Question 11In the Compromise of 1850,
Henry Clay grouped his resolutions in pairs so that
Each pair offered concessions to both sides
Question 12Lincoln wanted to prevent
Maryland from seceding because if it did?
Washington D.C. would be surrounded by Confederate
territory
Question 13Most members of the Free-Soil
Party opposed the spread of slavery because they believed
what?Allowing slavery to expand would expand would make it difficult for
free men to find work
Question 14The most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad
was who?Harriet Tubman
Question 15The Whig Party and American Party both
dissolved because why?Northern and Southern members split over the
slavery issue
Question 16The Supreme Court decision in
the Dred Scott case did what?Considered free soil
unconstitutional
Question 17John Brown’s intention in raiding the arsenal at Harpers Ferry was
to arm who?Enslaved people and begin an
insurrection against slaveholders
Question 18The Confederate Constitution
stated that each state was what?
Independent
Question 19The caning of Charles
Sumner resulted from him accusing other senators of
what?Forcing Kansas into the ranks
of slave states
Question 20Did Missouri secede from the
Union?
No
Question 21Robert E. Lee did not accept
command of the Union troops because why?
He could not fight against VA
Question 22In the election of 1864,
candidate George McClellan promised to do what?
Stop fighting and negotiate
Question 23Jefferson Davis wanted to fight a war of attrition, in which the South
would do what?Avoid large battles and force the
North to exhaust its resources
Question 24Why did Benjamin Grierson’s
forces traveled 600 miles?
To distract Confederate forces so Grant could land
south of Vicksburg
Question 25Which battle was the turning
point of the Civil War?
Gettysburg
Question 26Citizens of the South suffered
food shortages during the Civil War because why?
The South’s transportation system had collapsed
Question 27The Trent Affair brought the Union close to war with what
country?
Britain
Question 28Was having more military colleges an advantage for
the South?yes
Question 29Lincoln suspended writs of habeas corpus. As a result
what could happen to a person?
A person could be imprisoned indefinitely without trial
Question 30In response to the South’s
treatment of African American troops, Lincoln
does what?Stopped all prisoner
exchanges
Question 31The prison in the South where
13,000 captured Union soldiers died was called
what?Andersonville
Question 32The capture of Chattanooga was
important objective for Union forces because why?
They would control a major railroad running south to
Atlanta
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