Causes of the Civil War
This compromise settled the issue of issue of slavery for a time.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This person's plan only required 10% of each states population to swear loyalty to the Union.
Who was Lincoln?
The width of track settled on by the railroads.
What is 4ft. width?
True or False: Jackson believed that nominating conventions were the better way to elect the president and vice president
What is true?
The 2 reasons the South supported slavery.
What is...
1. It was "vital" to their way of life
2. Northerners should not tell the South how to live their lives
The number of military districts created during Reconstruction.
What are 5?
1 way railroads stimulated the economy.
What is created thousands of jobs?
This system allows elected representatives government jobs to political supporters and friends.
What is the Spoils System?
The book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe detailing life of slaves in the South.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
2 positive changes as a result of Reconstruction.
What are...
1. taxation was more equitable
2. the 15th Amendment was adopted (giving African Americans the right to vote)
The amount of time zones the U.S. is broken into.
What are 4 time zones?
True or False: The South hated tariffs.
What is true?
The 4 parts to the Compromise of 1850.
1. California would be a free state
2. Slavery would be banned in Washington, D.C.
3. Slavery would be voted on by each states government
4. Stronger fugitive slave laws would be passed
The reason the Freedman's Bureau was created.
What are
1. responsible for providing medical care, clothing, and food to freed African Americans
2. Schools were set up and staffed by Northern teachers
The people that used the telegraph the most at the beginning.
What is shopkeepers and businessmen?
The reason most families seek land in the west.
What is the land was cheap?
What was the Supreme Courts ruling when deciding the Dredd-Scott Case.
What is...
1. African Americans were not citizens
2. Living on free soil did not make a slave free
3. Slaves were property
3 ways the South tried to subjugate African Americans even after the Civil War ends.
What are...
1. Poll Tax
2. Literacy Tests
3. Burning of homes and business
The 3 factors of production.
What are land, capital, and labor?
The year the Indian Removal Act was passed and its purpose.
What is 1830? What is required Indians to move west in order to clear the way for American settlers?