S.C. History Unit 3

Why would Charleston have more recorded slaves than any other county between 1790 and 1850?

• People in Charleston were basically lazy and wanted slaves to do more of the work.
• Charleston County has the richest farming land in South Carolina and therefore a greater demand for slave labor.
• Charleston County was one of the main receiving seaports of slaves coming into the United States
• The laws about slavery were more lenient that any other place in South Carolina.

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act resolve the issue of slavery in those areas?

• Slavery was not permitted in either territory.
• The terms of the Missouri Compromise were honored in establishing these territories.
• People who had held slaves before they moved to the territories were allowed to keep their slaves.
• Popular sovereignty would determine whether slavery would be permitted in the territories.

1.       This South Carolinian served as a State House Representative, a U.S. Representative, a U.S. Senator, Vice President with John Quincy Adams, Vice President with Andrew Jackson until he resigned from office,   He is:

• Henry Clay
• John Kennedy
• Daniel Webster
• John Calhoun

The Grimke sisters were South Carolinians who advocated:

• women's suffrage.
• abolition of slavery.
• freedom from Great Britain.
• _{nullification}

Denmark Vesey was executed for:

• leading a Cherokee attack on Columbia.
• planning the largest attempted slave rebellion prior to the Civil War.
• betraying Charleston to the British in 1814.
• raising a regiment of freed slaves to fight for the Union in 1861

The call in South Carolina for a secession convention to “save the honor, and protest the rights and interest of the State” was in response to:

• the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln as President.
• the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
• John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry.
• holding the Democratic National Convention in Charleston.

The first battle of the Civil War in South Carolina occurred at:

• Ft. Moultrie.
• Ft. Jackson
• Ft. Sumter
• Ft. Worth.

Secessionists were people who wished to:

• take South Carolina out of the United States of America.
• stop the Civil War before it began.
• have a big meeting to determine what should be done about slavery.
• join the United States of America and form a new state.

Unionists were people who wished to:

• join the United States of America and form a new state.
• preserve the United States of America as it was.
• get the North and South to become one country.
• unite North and South Carolina.

South Carolinians were upset at the election of Abraham Lincoln as President because they feared he would:

• reopen international slave trade.
• outlaw slavery.
• raise taxes on slaves.
• not be able to control Congress.