7th 1st nine weeks exam review

What took place in California, that created a population boom in the West?

• A population boom occurred in California after people discovered it was near the Pacific Ocean and could be used as trading post with Asia.

• A population boom occurred in California after gold was found. People wanted to head west in hopes of getting rich quick.

How did the Fugitive Slave Act affect free African Americans in the North?

• The Fugitive Slave Act allowed for slave owners to obtain their runaway slaves from the North and bring them back to the south. Even African Americans who were free could be sold into slavery. Basically meaning nowhere in America could a black person actually be free.

• The Fugitive Slave Act allowed for runaway slaves to make it to safety in the northern states. Once there, they could vote and participate in all activities as a white person.

How did Uncle Tom's Cabin play a role in dividing the North from the South, on the ideas of slavery even more than they already were?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, detailed many of the horrors that existed in slavery. This angered many of the northerners who did not understand the need for slaves because they lived in a more industrial area and the south was more agricultural.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, detailed all the wonderful things the south was accomplishing with slavery. The north was jealous that they were not allowed slaves.

What was the final push for the southern states to secede from the Union?

• The final push for the southern states to secede from the Union was the outcome of the Dred Scott case. Dred Scott's case ruled that all blacks living in the United states would be citizens of the U.S.

• The final push for the southern states to secede from the Union was the Presidential election of 1860, when Abraham Lincoln won the election. The South believed that Lincoln would end slavery and ruin their economy.

Stephen Douglas proposed a vote take place in Kansas to determine whether or not it would become a free or slave state. What occurred during this voting period in Kansas?

• Kansas became a free state due to the hatred for slavery

• voting fraud, because Northerners and Southerners flooded to Kansas to cast a vote even though they were not living in Kansas.

• Kansas became a slave state because of the slaves being able to vote themselves back into slavery

In the case of Dred Scott, the Supreme Court decided that

• Dred Scott was now a free man because he had been living in a free territory for so long.

• Dred Scott was still a slave as long as his owners moved back to the north

• Dred Scott was not a citizen and therefore had no right to sue in the first place. He would continue being a slave.

The political party of the Republicans was created in order to

• build more plantations

• fight against slavery

• fight to keep slavery

Lincoln's plan from the beginning of his political career was to end slavery everywhere, including the south.

• True

• False

The division in lifestyles between the north and the south attributed to many political acts and laws being created in the US in order to maintain peace. Place a check by the laws/acts created to keep peace.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• New York Trade Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

Before the Battle of Gettysburg, which side was more successful on the Battlefield? The Battle of Gettysburg was considered the turning point of the Civil War.

• Union

• Confederacy