Chapter 14 Study Cards
Question
Where did most Southerners live by the mid1850’s?
In what region of the U.S. were most of the
nation’s cities located by the 1850’s?
What was the North’s point of view on slavery by
the 1850’s?
Why was the Southern economy based on slavery?
What were slaves doing when they resisted
slavery?
How did the slaves resist slavery?
Which slave rebellion led to the slaves being
returned to Africa?
What means did Harriet Tubman and others use to
help slaves reach freedom in the North?
Describe the lifestyle of free African Americans.
What problem did the Missouri Compromise
solve?
What led to violence in Kansas in 1854?
Why were people outraged at the Supreme Court’s
decision in the Dred Scott case?
How did John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry affect
the nation?
What were Lincoln’s and Douglas’s view on
slavery?
What officially started the Civil War?
What did the North hope to achieve by fighting the
Civil War?
Why did the Southern states prefer to buy
manufactured goods from Britain rather from the
Northern states here at home?
Why did the Southern states fear the outlawing of
slavery?
What details explain how the Underground
Railroad was able to be so successful in the fight
against slavery?
What is one similarity and one difference in the
lifestyles of free African Americans in the North
and slaves in the South?
Answer
Farms and small towns
North
Most Northern states had outlawed slavery.
Slavery was profitable.
Fighting for freedom
They held back on working, they pretended to be
sick, they tried to escape, and they led rebellions.
Amistad rebellion
Underground Railroad
They lived in fear of losing their freedom.
Northerners did not want more slave states than
free states.
Northerners and Southerners disagreed over the
results of the slavery vote.
The Court said African Americans had no rights.
It further divided the North and the South.
Lincoln opposed slavery, but Douglas though
slavery had its place.
Battle at Fort Sumter
An end to slavery
British goods were cheaper than Northern goods.
Slavery was profitable to the Southern economy.
The goods an enslaved person produced brought
in at least twice as much money as the cost of
owning a slave.
The Underground Railroad was an organized,
secret system. Both whites and African Americans
helped slaves escape to the North or to Canada.
Both slaves and free African Americans struggled
for their freedom. Many free African Americans in
the North found jobs and bought property. Slaves
were not paid for their work.
Question
What was the underlying issue the Missouri
Compromise was intended to address? Was it
successful or not?
Before the outbreak of the Civil War, how did
President Lincoln balance his views on slavery and
his goal for the nation?
Why do you think Jefferson Davis thought it was
important to capture Fort Sumter?
How did differing goal among people in the US
lead to the Civil War?
Answer
The Missouri Compromise was intended to
address the issue of balance of power between
free and slave states. It was successful for a while
because it maintained the balance by allowing one
free state and one slave state to join the Union at
the same time.
Lincoln put his goal of keeping the nation united
above his goal to end slavery. He announced that
he did not want to split the country and that he
did not want the North and the South to be
enemies.
Jefferson Davis knew that the Northern forces
would be a “powerful opposition” to the
Confederacy. The Confederacy had already taken
control of most forts and military property in the
South, but Fort Sumter was still under Union
control and could be used as a threat.
People fought hoping to achieve different goals. In
the Civil War some people were fighting to end
slavery, some to preserve slavery, and some to
preserve the Union.