Unit 5 Social Studies Review

What was the belief in the South?

• Farmers are in charge!

• A Monarchy would fix all the nation's issues.

• Individual State's Rights

• Weak National Government

What was a major effect of the 1857 Dred Scott Supreme court case decision?

• Northerners were angered because the decision would extend slavery into western territories.

• The South was excited because Slavery was going to expand.

• Dred Scott became a free man.

True or False: Only a small percentage of farmers lived on plantations and owned slaved.

• True

• False

Based on the map, which area would have more railroads due to industry?

• North

• South

The impact of Lincoln’s victory in the Election of 1860 caused ____________________ to secede from the Union.

True or False: The Battle of Fort Sumter marked the beginning of the American Civil War.

• True

• False

True or False: A result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was that pro and anti-slavery settlers fought for control of Kansas.

• True

• False

Frederick Douglass was an Abolitionist who published the anti-slavery newspaper called:

• The Liberator

• The North Star

• The Leaf Chronicle

• New York Times

What caused President Lincoln to call for volunteers to join the Union army and make preparations for war?

• The secession of South Carolina

• After the firing on Fort Sumter

More immigrants lived in the North than the South because of more _____________ ___________.