2nd Nine Weeks Test Review
8th Grade South Carolina History
Answers to questions1-39
Answers (on looseleaf notebook paper) must be turned in on your
testing date.
1. The colonists boycotted British goods.
2. Search warrants ordered by the government to find smuggled
goods on which taxes had not been paid.
3. Battle of Camden
4. Patriots
5. Loyalists (Tories)
6. Battle of Cowpens
7. Francis Marion
8. The three 3/5 compromise is the agreement to count every 3 of 5
slaves in the South’s population which gave them more
representation in the House of Representatives.
9. Militia
10.
Cotton
11.
Cherokee
12.
Moved capital from Charleston to Columbia; reapportioned
of seats in the General Assembly to give Up Country more seats
in State Legislature; built centrally located South Carolina College
in Columbia.
13.
Cotton
14.
States should have the right to nullify laws passed by
Congress if they determine that the law was not fair and favored
one part of the country over another. Examples: Issues over
slavery and tariffs.
15.
To cancel or make invalid or void
16.
Tariffs (nullification) and slavery
17.
Southern Abolitionists who were forced to move out of the
South
18.
Invented the cotton gin
19.
Andrew Jackson (beat John Q Adams)VP John C. Calhoun
who supported nullification(from SC)
20.
Abraham Lincoln, he wanted to contain slavery; caused the
South to secede
21.
South-Agriculture(CashCrops) North-Industry
22.
Colonies exported cotton, tobacco, rice to GB. In turn, GB
exported(sold) finished products to the Colonies. The mother
country benefits from this system of imperialism.
23.
westward expansion by colonists, reserving the land west
of the Appalachians for Native Americans
24.
After his plot to lead a major slave revolt in Charleston, the
General Assembly passed legislation that enacted harsher
penalties for people who taught slaves how to read and write.
Travel for slaves was more restricted. Life for free blacks was also
more restricted. (must have a guardian and could not return to
the state if they left.
25.
C- political leaders who wanted to secede only if all other
southern states seceded. S- Wanted the state to secede
regardless of the decision of other states U- wanted to remain
with the Union(United States)and did not see secession as a legal
option.
26.
Secretary of War under President Pierce during the KansasNebraska crisis and later a Mississippi senator who became the
President of the Confederate States of America after SC seceded.
27.
Robert E Lee(Southern General) wanted to invade the north
and the general of the United States Army(Union) Ulysses S Grant
28.
Stormed through Tennessee into Georgia using his total war
objective. He was successful. His troops burned and destroyed
everything of value in their path such as much of Columbia and
railroads.
29.
Sherman devised the brutal strategy of total war in order to
carry out Grant’s directive to win the war in the South and force
them to surrender.Total War is destroying everything in your path
30.
Senator (Illinois) who devised the “popular sovereignty”
concept that could have destroyed the Missouri Compromise.
Stephan Douglas wanted a Northern railroad from the Midwest
and with the remaining land of the Louisiana Purchase. He split
the remaining land in two: Kansas and Nebraska. He suggested
that the Missouri Compromise be repealed and the slavery issue
should be settled by popular sovereignty. He and Lincoln engaged
in famous debates over current issues, such as slavery. He
supported the idea of states’ rights and suggested that the
nation could survive with both free and slave states through the
practice of the sovereignty of states. Douglas won the election
for senator, but Lincoln became famous as a spokeman to end
the expansion of slavery into the territories.
31.
To blockade the South by keeping both military and civilian
goods out
32.
Offensive war-capture the southern capital at Richmond,
control the use of the Mississippi River, and blockade all major
southern ports.
33.
No citizen, no rights, no right to file a lawsuit. Can’t be freed
by the Court because he is not a citizen. Therefore, he can’t enter
a lawsuit in a federal court. Congress does not have the right to
regulate slavery in a state or territory. This means that the
Missouri Compromise and the concept of popular sovereignty
were unconstitutional.
34.
Listed grievances against the king of England. We have the
right to revolt against the king and his injustices against the
colonies. When the Constitution was drafted, the founding fathers
included the concept (based on the Declaration of Independence)
that governments receive their power from the consent of the
governed-for example, voters directly elect their representatives
in the House of Representatives.
35.
Way to end the crisis in the territory by allowing popular
sovereignty to decide admission as a free or slave state. The
bloody conflict between those who wanted slavery and those who
wanted to enter as a free state. Both proponents of slavery as
well as abolitionists came in and added to the violence.
Compromise of 1850 -California entered as a free state; slavery
allowed in land gained from Mexican War; ended Slave trade in
Washington, DC(District of Columbia); Congress can’t end
interstate slave trade; enacted a fugitive slave law.Compromise
postponed secession crisis for another 10 years.
36.
She was an abolitionist who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin. She
wanted Congress to know that they were responsible for slavery
in the West.
37.
Mandatory military service. (The Draft)
38.
The Underground Railroad was the path that Harriet
Tubman, a former slave, used to lead the slaves North to
freedom.
39.
New Orleans- Union troops seize control of the port at new
Orleans, Antietam-confederate forces retreat to Virginia,
Chancellorsville-confederate troops force a union retreat,
Gettysburg-General Lee orders retreat of confederate troops
after suffering catastrophic losses-turns the war into a Union
advantage and leads to the publication of the Emancipation
Proclamation, Vicksburg- union gains complete control of
Mississippi river, splitting the confederacy in two. Refer to the
chart on page 168 for details on why these are turning point
battles