Which was an aspect of the Fugitive Slave Act that horrified northerners?

1. Which was an aspect of the Fugitive Slave Act that horrified northerners? Some free African Americans had been captured and sent to the South.

2. Why did President Lincoln support the abolition of slavery? He thought that it would help the North win the war.

3. How did Reconstruction affect the social structure of the South? African Americans began to demand the same economic and political rights as whites.

4. Many of the first factories of the South were built for….??? The processing of crops such as sugar cane.

5. 36. What was Eli Whitney’s influence on American manufacturing? • a.He designed a way to produce inexpensive clocks. • b.He served as President Adams’ secretary of war. • c.He came up with the idea of interchangeable parts. • d.He argued that all manufacturing should be done by hand.

6. What main benefit did the Transportation Revolution bring to trade? It enabled goods to travel quickly across the United States.

7. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney argued in 1857 that Congress could not prohibit someone from taking slaves into a federal territory because ……? = = slaves were property, and property was defended by law.

8. What were spirituals? Emotional Christian songs, sung by the slaves.

9. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford established that …..? The Missouri Compromise’s restriction on slavery was unconstitutional.

10. What was responsible for increasing the domestic slave trade in the early 1800’s? An act of congress banned the importation of slaves to the U.S.

11. What did southerners fear, after cities and states, passed laws limiting the rights of freed slaves and free African-Amer.’s? Slave Rebellions

12. What was the effect of Nat Turner’s rebellion of 1831? Slave codes were toughened.

13. 34. How did the War of 1812 help American manufacturing? • a. The government built factories to produce needed uniforms and weapons. • b. Tariffs on foreign goods encouraged Americans to buy domestic goods. • c. Foreign goods became too expensive so politicians placed tariffs on them. • d. The government boycotted British products that Americans also produced.

14. What restrictions were placed on African Americans under the Black Codes? African Americans were prevented from owning guns.

15. How did the idea of popular sovereignty affect slavery in the United States? States or territories would decide whether to permit slavery.

16. Most of the South’s big cities had started as….? Shipping Centers

17. Republicans proposed the Fourteenth Amendment before southern states were admitted to the Union to….? • Protect the Civil Rights Act from being overturned by the South.

18. 32. What did textile manufacturers do to keep the costs of running a mill low? • a. cut back on the maintenance of machinery • b. hired children and paid them very little • c. trained apprentices in exchange for decades of labor • d. fed workers instead of paying wages in cash

19. Gibbons v. Ogden was a Supreme Court case about ………? Thomas Gibbons’ federal license had priority over Aaron Ogden’s state license.

20. The main goal of Reconstruction was to….? • Readmit the former Confederate states into the Union.

21. The Reconstruction Acts, passed by Congress in March 1867, affected the makeup of the southern states by…..? • Dividing the South into five military districts controlled by a military commander.

22. The Black Codes were….? • Laws passed that limited the freedom of African Americans.

23. In the mid-1800s, most of America’s industry was located in the…? Northeast.

24. The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to the …..? return of the slavery issue between the North and South.

25. What were “the slave codes?” Strict laws that controlled the actions of slaves.

26. In the first half of the 1800’s, what portion of white southern families owned slaves? One Third

27. What was the “Cotton Belt?” An area stretching from S. Carolina to Texas that grew most of the country’s cottoncrop.

28. 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 rebellions.

29. The Emancipation Proclamation was an order from Lincoln…..? calling for all Confederate slaves to be freed.

30. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address reflected ideas from the Declaration of Independence in that it emphasized valuing liberty, equality, and democracy.

31. What did President Lincoln do to silence those in opposition to the war? He ignored protections against unlawful imprisonment by jailing enemies of the Union without trial.

32. What did Jim Crow Laws do? Enforced the segregation of African Americans and whites.

33. Southern governments passed the Black Codes to…..? • Limit the civil rights of freed African Americans

34. What was a trade union? Organization of workers who tried to improve pay and working conditions for members.

35. What was the significance of the election of 1860? It showed that the South was losing its political power in the nation.

36. What was a consequence of the Compromise of 1850? The balance between free and slave states ended in the Union.

37. When Lincoln was elected in 1860, he stated that the government would…..? not start a war with the southern states.

38. For what reason did the southern states decided to secede from the Union after the election of 1860? The South = + The southern economy and way of life would be destroyed.

39. What advantage did skilled slaves have over unskilled slaves? Earning money to buy their freedom.

40. The purpose of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was for Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas to ……..? announce their candidacies for Senator of Illinois and gain the support of voters.

41. The purpose of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was to….? remind Americans of the reasons that the Civil War was being fought.

42. The Civil War began with the

43. 41. The Industrial Revolution is best defined as a • a. period of rapid growth during which machines became essential to industry. • b. series of explosive encounters between workers and wealthy factory owners. • c. time of great excitement about mechanical approaches to controlling Nature. • d. period of turmoil and upheaval within the United States government.

44. The verdict in Plessy v. Ferguson was……? Legalizing segregation as long as “separate but equal” facilities were provided.

45. What did ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment mean for African Americans? The 13th Amendment gave African Americans their freedom by making slavery illegal in the U.S.

46. Congressional Republicans thought that passing the Fifteenth Amendment would help protect their Reconstruction plan because they believed • African Americans would vote to support the plan.