Unit 6 Test (4.1-4.3)

Vocabulary

100

This describes the pre-civil war period in the south. 

Antebellum

200

This means to "cancel"

Nullify

300

This means to formally withdrawal... (South Carolina does this when they leave the Union)

Secede / Succession 

400

a person who leased a portion of land and shared a portion of the crop as payment for land, rent, etc

Sharecropper 

500

This refers to life being very different between the North and South

Sectionalism

People

100

The Cotton Gin was invented by 

Eli Whitney

200

This man led an unsuccessful slave revolt in Virginia that changed the tone of the abolitionist movement

Nat Turner

300

Elected President in 1860, this man becomes the leader of the Republican Party

Abraham Lincoln

400

These two South Carolinian women were most notable for being very vocal during the abolitionists movement

Grimke Sisters

500

William Lloyd Garrison wrote an abolitionist newspaper called

The Liberator 

Laws

100

This was a 'tax' placed on imported goods

Protective Tariff / Tariff of 1833

200

This compromise stated that any new states above the 36 30 line would be free states, and new states below it would become slave states

Missouri Compromise

300

This supreme court case said that slaves were not considered citizens and therefore did not have the right to sue. 

Dred Scott v Sanford

400

Which law is being described below

-California became a free state

-Slave trade was banned in D.C.

-Fugitive Slave Act was created

Compromise of 1850

500

This law repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed the people living in new territories to vote on whether or not to have slavery

Kansas-Nebraska Act

The South

100

During the Antebellum period, most people in the South were democrats. True or False 

True

200

This invention led to an increase in the demand for slaves

Cotton Gin

300

This was the primary economic activity of the South

Agriculture

400

In the antebellum period, most people living in the low country of South Carolina were

Slaves

500

According to many Southerners, the issue of "states rights" revolved around their right to do what?

Own Slaves

Random

100

This person is most well known for being the "conductor" of the underground railroad

Harriet Tubman

200

Manufacturing, Urban growth, and Increased immigration describes what region?

The North

300

Why did abolitionists fear the establishment of new states out West?

Feared the expansion of slavery

400

In South Carolina, what failed slave revolve caused more restrictions to be placed on slaves

Demark Vesey / Demark Vesey Plot

500

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by this person to protest the Fugitive Slave Act

Harriet Beecher Stowe