Jeopardy::Causes of the Civil War

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North South Causes Luck of The Draw

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Why were changes to manufacturing needed in the mid -1700s?

Demand was greater then the current supply of goods.

What was Eli Whitney’s influence on American manufacturing?

He came up with the idea of interchangeable parts.

How did the War of 1812 help American manufactruing?

Tariffs on foreign goods encouraged Americans to buy domestic.

What did the Supreme Court decide in the case of Gibbons v. Ogden?

Thomas Gibbons’ federal license had priority over Aaron Ogden’s state license.

In the mid 1800s companies began to mass produce earlier inventions. What effect did this

have on familes?

They could now buy items that had been too costly in the past.

Why did the value of slaves drop in the South following the American Revolution?

Crop prices fell and the demand for slaves decreased.

Tredegar iron Works was a ___.

Southern factory that turned iron into useful products for industry and the military.

Why did many southern cities and states pass laws to limit the rights of freed slaves?

Southern citizens feared freed slaves would try to encourage slave rebllions.

In what way did slaves rebel against long working hours?

They slowed their work.

Nat Turner’s Rebellion was the…

Most violent slave uprising in the U.S. and led to his death and tougher slave codes throughout

the South.

On the night of May 24, 1856, 5 pro-slavery men were killed in Kansas. What was this event

called?

Pottawatomie Massacre

The Dred Scott v. Sanford Supreme Court rule established that…

The Missouri Compromise’s restriction on slavery was unconstitutional.

What was the Significance of the Election of 1860?

It showed that the South was losing its political power.

Why did the South secede from the Union following the election of 1860?

The southern economy and way of life would be destroyed.

How was the government in Kansas affected by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

After the Kansas-Nebraska Kansas developed two governments one free and one slave. These

government will try to control the state, but untimely it won’t be decided until 1861 when the

south succeeds.

Who canned Charles Sumner in the Senate chamber over the issue of slavery?

Preston Brooks

In this compromise the slave trade in Washington DC was ended and California was

allowed to enter as a free state.

Compromise of 1850

How did the idea of popular sovereignty affect slavery in the U.S?

States and territories would decide to permit slavery based on elections.

The Kansas Nebraska Act led to what discussion in Congress?

Slavery

What were the general causes of the Civil War? And Explain How.

States Rights vs federal government (South wanted the states to be supreme while the North wated the federal government

to be supreme)

Slavery (South depended on it economically while the North did not)

Tariffs (The North wanted protective tariffs to protect their industries while the South would have to pay more for the

manufactured goods they purchased from Europe)

Different Economies ( South focused on Agriculture and the North on manufacturing)

Cultural Differences ( class society in the south and more middle class and poor workers in the north)

How did Harriet Beecher Stowe influence the debate over slavery?

Exposed the harsh life of slavery

How did most planters encourage slave obedience?

Physical Punishment

What happened to workers in the textile industry as a result of Lowell’s introduction of a new

system?

More women became mill workers because of the opportunity to earn better wages than other

jobs available.

How did Technological developments during the Industrial Revolution enable people to build

factories almost anywhere?

The shift to steam power means that factories no longer had to be built near streams and could

move to the population.

A Yeoman was a /an?

White owner of a small farm

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