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Pre-Civil War 2016 Answer Key

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All In Favor
#1 Goal of a reform movement Change
#2 Name 4 cotton producing states Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia...
#3 First state to secede from the Union South Carolina
#4 The belief that states should be able to decide for themselves whether to allow slaver is called popular sovereignty
#5 How did the Erie Canal change America? It opened trade...connected the Atlantic Ocean with the midwest, created new communities...answers will vary
Gender Bender
#1 The Declaration of Sentiments written at the Seneca Falls Convention called for equality for women
#2 Delegates at the Seneca Falls Convention compared the women's rights movement to the American struggle for independence
#3 Girls growing up in America in the mid 1800's were not allowed to study these two subjects Math and Science
#4 Two things women could not do in 1820. vote, attend college, own property
#5 Name 3 women from this era who fought for women's rights Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth...answers will vary
Rebel Heart
#1 Southerners called for a law that would force the return of escaped slaves (fugitives)
#2 Name of the law which required Northerners to return escaped slaves to their masters. Fugitive Slave Law
#3 Two reasons Northerners opposed the abolitionist movement profiting from the work (cotton), lose their jobs to black men and women
#4 What was the Second Great Awakening? A Protestant religious movement which expanded church membership and Evangelicalism
#5 Name three ways John Brown rebelled against society Led black churchgoers to the seats of white churchgoers, planned an attack on a Federal Arsenal, led slaves from enslavement to freedom in Canada....answers will vary
Sectionalism
#1 Define Utopian community A perfect community
#2 True or False: Division among Democrats led to the election of Abraham Lincoln True
#3 What was the Supreme Court decision regarding Dred Scott? Slaves were property not citizens
#4 What was the Romanticism movement all about? Inspiration, power of the individual to liberate, have order and remake society
#5 How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act address the issue of slavery? Slavery was an issue to be decided by residents of the states
Word Wall Graffiti
#1 Harriet Beecher Stowe's book Uncle Tom's Cabin ws referred to by Southerners as propaganda
#2 ___________masters did not beat their slaves. humane
#3 A war between people of the same nation. civil war
#4 To break away from secede
#5 Abolitionists were __________ to the success of the Underground Railroad. vital
Final Question
How did Frederick Douglass influence the abolitionist movement in America? Newspaper creator, orator, former slave, self taught