Ch. 9, Sec. 4
Those who were neutral during the American Revolution were neutral because:
Their religious beliefs would not allow them to support war or violence.
Which political party was created on the foundation of abolishing slavery?
Republican
Which battle was the first land battle of the Civil War?
Philippi Races
Definition: to take the right to vote away
Disfranchise
WV was admitted to the Union on April 20, 1863 by proclamation signed by which president?
Abraham Lincoln
Which treaty ended the American Revolution?
Treaty of Paris 1783
Name John Bell's political party and platform.
Party: Constitutional Union
Platform: Neutral
What were the three issues addressed when writing the new state Constitution?
1. Name of the state
2. Boundaries of the state
3. To have slavery or not in the new state
poll tax
Definition: one who is not an extremist
Moderate
During the American Revolution, what percentage of the colonists were Patriots, Loyalists, and neutral?
1/3 for each
Which piece of legislation dictated where slavery would and would not be legal in the west?
Missouri Compromise
Who was West Virginia's first governor?
Arthur Boreman
The Flick Amendment extended suffrage to male citizens of WV regardless of race. However, it listed many groups of people that could not vote. Give TWO of those groups.
minors, paupers (the poor), those of unsound mind, those convicted of treason, a felony, or bribery in an election, those who had lived in WV less than a year, and those who had not lived in their county for the last 30 days
Which piece of legislation contained stronger fugitive slave laws and the banning of the slave trade in Washington, DC?
Compromise of 1850
Give ONE way that Loyalists showed their opposition to the war effort.
Refused to pay taxes, tarred and feathered tax collectors, fought with GB, etc
What did Abraham Lincoln do to cause Virginia to secede from the Union?
Requested 75,000 troops from each loyal state.
What was the Willey Amendment?
West Virginia's "solution" to the slavery issue.
What was the 15th Amendment?
During the presidential election of 1860, which candidate and party held a platform of popular sovereignty?
Candidate: Stephen Douglas
Party: Democrat
According to the treaty that ended the American Revolution, what was America required to do?
Pay back all pre-war debt to Great Britain.
Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act nullify the Missouri Compromise?
Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed territories to choose slavery based on popular sovereignty, which made the Compromise Line unnecessary.
Of all the counties recommended for the new state from the eastern panhandle, which county was NOT taken?
Frederick
Name ONE thing that labor unions helped miners with.
Organize strikes, fight for safer working conditions, fight for better pay, etc.
What was used to "legally" prevent African Americans and poor whites from voting during Reconstruction?
poll taxes and literacy tests