A Nation Breaking Apart

Question 1

What did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 guarantee?

Answer 1

Basic rights for settlers and banned slavery in the Old Northwest.

Question 2

Name the 3-step process that the Northwest Ordinance set up for admitting new states in the Old Northwest.

Answer 2

1. Congress would appoint a governor, secretary, and 3 judges.
2. Once the territory had 5,000 free adult male settlers, it could elect a legislature.
3. When the free population (men and women) reached 60,000, the territory could apply to become a state.

Question 3

Name the 5 states that made up the Northwest territory

Answer 3

Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin

Question 4

Who convinced Congress to agree to the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

Answer 4

Henry Clay

Question 5

The Missouri Compromise settled what the conflict that had arisen from Missouri’s application for statehood. what were the 3 main conditions of the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 5

1. Missouri would enter the US as a slave state
2. Maine would join the union as a free state (therefore keeping the balance of power in the senate)
3. All new free states must be above Missouri’s southern border (36’30 latitude), and all new slave states would be below it (Was unfair to south because there was more free-state territory (would eventually upset the balance of power))

Question 6

Congress passed the Missouri Compromise in 1820. Despite the success of the compromise, there were still what?

Answer 6

Strong disagreements between the north and the south over the expansion of slavery.

Question 7

What is Chattel Slavery?

Answer 7

Holding someone beyond their will; becoming the property of others.

Question 8

How long had some Americans opposed slavery?

Answer 8

(People thought that it was immoral even) since before the country was founded

Question 9

Who was the president of the first anti-slavery society in America? What was it called?

Answer 9

Benjamin Franklin - The Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery

Question 10

Define abolition

Answer 10

The immediate emancipation (freeing) of all slaves and the ending of racial segregation and discrimination.

Question 11

Which 2 people believed that all slaves should be set free immediately (because all men had God-given rights + it was inhumane)?

Answer 11

John Brown and William Lloyd Garrison

Question 12

Who was the first group to challenge slavery on religious grounds?

Answer 12

Quakers

Question 13

Define altruism

Answer 13

Virtue and moral obligation (Deciding between right and wrong)

Question 14

Other religious leaders did what to encourage Americans to support abolition?

Answer 14

Gave speeches

Published anti-slavery pamphlets

Question 15

To gain support for abolition, people referred to the…

Answer 15

Declaration of Independence - reminded people that the American revolution was fought in the name of liberty (for all)