Causes of the Civil War
This part of the country had 85% of the manufacturing capability prior to the civil war.
What is the North?
The main goal of plantation owners
What is earning profits
The primary goal of the Confederate troops at Fort Sumter.
What is to lay siege and force a surrender?
Jackson was in favor of _________________ in order to choose presidents
What is nominating conventions
The treaty that gave the U.S. Florida for 5 million dollars and set the border with Texas
what is the Adams-Onis Treaty
The slave who sued the U.S. government to prove that he was actually free.
Who is Dredd Scott?
The type of skilled labor was employed on plantations
What are blacksmiths
The man that was head of the Confederate forces.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
A way for presidential candidates to give their friends positions in government in return for votes
what is the Spoils System
This doctrine told European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere
What is the Monroe Doctrine
The 2 reasons the North opposed slavery.
What are
1. They believed it was morally wrong
2. Northerners workers felt that slavery was an economic threat
The act that lengthened the number of years that an immigrant had to wait to become a U.S. citizen
What is the Alien Act
The things Sherman destroyed on his march to the sea.
What is railroads, bridges, crops, and livestock?
The act passed in 1830 that required Native Americans living east of the Mississippi River to move to west into Indian Territory
What is the Indian Removal Act
True or False: Monroe believed that tariffs were essential to protect American manufacturing
What is True
The event that happened because 5,000 people from Missouri illegally voted in Kansas to make it a slave state.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
True or False: Jefferson wanted limited powers of the national government and wanted the U.S. remain a nation of small, independent farmers
What is True
The advantage the Monitor (Union Ship) had.
What is a revolving turret?
True or False: Jackson thought the 1st Bank of the Unites States helped poor farmers
what is False
The canal made to ease transportation and trade and connected the connected the Great Lakes with the Hudson River
What is the Erie Canal
The conditions of the Compromise of 1850.
What are
1. California would be a free state
2. slave trade banned in Washington, D.C.
3. states made from the Mexican Cession territory would be able to choose if they would be a free state or slave state
4. stronger Fugitive Slave Laws would be passed
The purchase by the U.S. government that gave Americans access to the Mississippi River and New Orleans
What is the Louisiana Purchase
The 2 things Grant allows the Confederates to keep after the surrender of the Southern army.
What was...
1. horses
2. private possessions (except guns)
The reason the South hated tariffs
What is the souths heavy reliance on trade made it more expensive to import goods
A term that led to the disagreements between the different regions of the United States
What is sectionalism