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Question 1 Conscience Whigs were

Northern Whigs who

Opposed Slavery

Question 2The Calhoun Resolutions were important because

they demonstratedThe anger many Southerners

felt about the issue of slavery

Question 3The original purpose of the Gadsden Purchase was to

Create a route for a railroad

Question 4After the Kansas-Nebraska

Act passed, Northerners headed for Kansas because

They wanted to create an antislavery majority there

Question 5In 1849 thousands of people

came to CA because

Gold had been discovered there

Question 6By rejecting the Lecompton Constitution, Kansas voters

Rejected slavery in their state

Question 7Crittenden’s Compromise

proposed toExtend the Missouri

Compromise line westward

Question 8The Know-Nothings were

Anti-Catholic & nativist

Question 9In his inaugural speech,

President Lincoln said what about slavery?

He repeated his commitment not to interfere with slavery

where it already existed

Question 10The Wilmot Proviso, which

never passed would have what?

Prohibited slavery in any territory gained from Mexico

Question 11In the Compromise of 1850,

Henry Clay grouped his resolutions in pairs so that

Each pair offered concessions to both sides

Question 12Lincoln wanted to prevent

Maryland from seceding because if it did?

Washington D.C. would be surrounded by Confederate

territory

Question 13Most members of the Free-Soil

Party opposed the spread of slavery because they believed

what?Allowing slavery to expand would expand would make it difficult for

free men to find work

Question 14The most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad

was who?Harriet Tubman

Question 15The Whig Party and American Party both

dissolved because why?Northern and Southern members split over the

slavery issue

Question 16The Supreme Court decision in

the Dred Scott case did what?Considered free soil

unconstitutional

Question 17John Brown’s intention in raiding the arsenal at Harpers Ferry was

to arm who?Enslaved people and begin an

insurrection against slaveholders

Question 18The Confederate Constitution

stated that each state was what?

Independent

Question 19The caning of Charles

Sumner resulted from him accusing other senators of

what?Forcing Kansas into the ranks

of slave states

Question 20Did Missouri secede from the

Union?

No

Question 21Robert E. Lee did not accept

command of the Union troops because why?

He could not fight against VA

Question 22In the election of 1864,

candidate George McClellan promised to do what?

Stop fighting and negotiate

Question 23Jefferson Davis wanted to fight a war of attrition, in which the South

would do what?Avoid large battles and force the

North to exhaust its resources

Question 24Why did Benjamin Grierson’s

forces traveled 600 miles?

To distract Confederate forces so Grant could land

south of Vicksburg

Question 25Which battle was the turning

point of the Civil War?

Gettysburg

Question 26Citizens of the South suffered

food shortages during the Civil War because why?

The South’s transportation system had collapsed

Question 27The Trent Affair brought the Union close to war with what

country?

Britain

Question 28Was having more military colleges an advantage for

the South?yes

Question 29Lincoln suspended writs of habeas corpus. As a result

what could happen to a person?

A person could be imprisoned indefinitely without trial

Question 30In response to the South’s

treatment of African American troops, Lincoln

does what?Stopped all prisoner

exchanges

Question 31The prison in the South where

13,000 captured Union soldiers died was called

what?Andersonville

Question 32The capture of Chattanooga was

important objective for Union forces because why?

They would control a major railroad running south to

Atlanta

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