Civil War and Reconstruction Quiz 2 2023
Quiz by joyce lackey
Virginia and United States History
History and Social Science
Virginia Standards of Learning
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- Q1What was the cause of the tensions between the northern and southern states?Protecting and expanding slavery30sVUS.6.e
- Q2What was the economic base for the northern states?manufacturing, industry, textile mills, exporting or selling finished goods or items, banking30s
- Q3What was the economic base for the southern states?agriculture of cash crops that required a large slave workforce to be successful they relied on imported goods to meet their needs30s
- Q4Why did the North favor high protective tariffs?They protected northern manufactured goods from foreign competition - United States goods could be sold at a cheaper price30s
- Q5Why did the South dislike the high protective tariffs?It made the southerners pay high prices for their finished products or good.30s
- Q6What does 'Free State' refer to?States that do not have slavery and want to prohibit the expansion of slavery30s
- Q7What does 'Slave State" refer to?States that have slaves and promotes the extension of slavery30s
- Q8What did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 do?created an a line for free and slave states ; Missouri added as a slave state, Maine added as a free state30s
- Q9What did the Compromise of 1850 accomplish?--California entered the Union as a free state30s
- Q10See image--rest of the Mexican cession was divided into two territories (Utah & New Mexico) in which slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty.30s
- Q11See image--abolished slavery in the nation's capital and produced a new fugitive slave law30s
- Q12What did the Kanas-Nebraska Act do?It repealed the Compromise of 1850, allowed for new states entering the United State to determine if they want to be a slave state or a free state (popular sovereignty)30s
- Q13Why did the Republican Party form?The Republican Party formed to stop the spread of slavery.30s
- Q14What does "Bleeding Kansas" refer to?fighting broke out in Kansas over slavery30s
- Q15What is nullification?concept in which states could nullify, or void, any federal law they deemed unconstitutional30s