Rise of Cotton
What helped Upcountry farmers make cotton production profitable?
Cotton Gin
What was the Trail of Tears?
The forced removal of Native Tribes East of the Mississippi River to modern day Oklahoma.
Which of the following was repealed by allowing popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska?
The Missouri Compromise
How did the Emancipation proclamation impact the war as a whole?
it announced the intent to free the slaves and gave new meaning to the war.
What officially ended slavery in The United States?
The 13th Amendment
How did the slave population continue to grow after international slave trade was outlawed in 1808?
domestic slave trade and births
Which of the following was a result of the admission of Maine and Missouri as states in the Missouri Compromise?
The balance of power between free states and slave states was maintained.
What was a result of the Dred Scott decision?
Slaves were property, and could be taken anywhere, even free states.
What was the name of the first submarine used to sink the Union ship the Housatonic?
The H.L Hunley
Where did General Robert E. Lee surrender to Union General Ulysses S. Grant?
Appomattox Court House in Virginia
How did the term "King Cotton" become synonymous with the South? (Choose TWO)
1. The American South produced over half the world's cotton.
2. Exporting cotton to Northern factories and England made Southern planters very wealthy.
What was a result of the admission of Maine and Missouri as states in the Missouri Compromise?
It required Native Americans to give up their land in the east and move to territories in the west
What was the main cause of the violence in Bleeding Kansas?
Disagreements over whether Kansas should allow slavery.
What was the south's response to the Union's blockade of Charleston harbor?
using blockade runners to slip past union ships and move trade goods
What southern port was captured early in the war by the Union, giving them a base to launch attacks on the Confederacy.
Port Royal
Why did the Slave Codes need to be strengthened after the Denmark Vesey plot?
There was an increased sense of fear among whites.
What was John C. Calhoun's argument in the South Carolina Exposition and Protest in regards to the Tariff of 1828?
it favored one section of the country over another.
How did John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry further increase sectionalism in the southern states?
Southerners feared that abolitionists and freed slaves were a danger to them.
Which man was responsible for stealing the Confederate ship, the CSS Planter, and sailing his family to freedom in Charleston harbor?
Robert Smalls
What was South Carolina's response to the election of Abraham Lincoln?
To Secede from the Union
Who might have said this quote:
"What if the mob should now burst in upon us, break up our meeting, and commit violence upon our persons? Would that be anything compared with what the slaves endure? ... All this disturbance is but evidence that our efforts are working or else the friends of slavery would not care for what we say or do."
The Grimke Sisters
How was the 1832 Supreme Court Ruling in Worcester v. Georgia both a success and a failure for Native American rights?
It recognized Cherokee tribal land as sovereign, but was ignored by President Jackson.
List the three main characteristics of the Compromise of 1850.
1. allowed California to enter the Union as a free state
2. strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act
3. discontinued the slave trade in D.C.
How many slaves did a southern planter have to own in order to avoid military service?
20
The 54th Massachusetts, an all African American regiment, is remembered for which major charge/campaign?
Efforts in leading the charge on Fort Wagner.