Ch 11-15 Flashcards
1
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Assistant to help slaves escape to the north
A
Underground railroad
2
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Slave trade within the United States
A
Second middle passage
3
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Poor work and breakage of tools
A
Silent sabotage
4
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Slavery was known as what
A
A peculiar institution
5
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Managed slaves in the field
A
The overseer
6
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Community of freed Virginian slaves
A
Israel hill
7
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Treating slaves in a fatherly manner
A
Paternalism
8
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Working in the fields side by side
A
Gang labor
9
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Had one or two if any slaves
A
The yeoman farmers
10
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Boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland
A
Mason Dixon line
11
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Cotton was considered what
A
White gold
12
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Trickster tale
A
Brer rabbit
13
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By 1860 the economic investment represented by the slave population exceeded the value of the nations factories railroads and banks combined
A
True
14
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Slavery did not affect northern merchants and manufactures
A
false
15
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paternalism both mass and justify the brutal reality of slavery
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True
16
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By the 1830s it was illegal to teach a slave to read or write
A
True
17
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By the 1850s most southern states had made it illegal for free blacks to enter their territory
A
True
18
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Despite being forbidden by law to Mary many slaves were able to create a family life on the plantation
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True
19
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When not in the field slaves observed more traditional gender roles
A
True
20
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Their respective Canadian and Mexican government regularly returned escaped slaves to southern slave holders
A
false
21
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Which is true and plantation owners in the 19th century
A
They insisted that slavery was required in order for whites to be truly free
22
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But you were slaves population on the eve of the Civil War was approximately
A
4 million
23
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In the 19th century why did Cotton become the most important commodity in international trade
A
The early industrial revolution centered on factories that made cloth out of cotton
24
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Why was slavery called a peculiar institution of the South
A
Set the south apart from the North
25
What economic effect did southern slavery have on north
Southern slavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvements in the north
26
Which of the following is true of the paternalist ethos in southern slavery
Slaveowners felt responsible for their slaves and believe they cannot take care of themselves
27
The proslavery argument can best be described as
The belief that Black people were inferior to Whites & unsuited for life in any condition other than slavery
28
Which statement is true about the labor that enslaved people did
The large majority of enslaved women and men worked in the fields
29
Urban enslaved people
Most often were servants cooks and other domestic servants
30
The plantation masters had a mini means to maintain order online their sleeves according to the text what was the most powerful weapon the plantation masters had
The threat of sale
31
What was the biggest fear of a slave of any age
A family member being sold
32
Which statement is true about Harriet Tubman
After escaping enslavement tubmen continued to risk her life by returning to the south numerous times to lead other enslaved people to freedom
33
Which of the following best describes the underground railroad
It was a loose organization of sympathetic abolitionist who hid fugitives in their homes and sent them to the next station led by runaway enslaved people
34
What did the mason Dixon line come to symbolize
The border between the north and the south and between slavery and freedom
35
Even those who deny on enslaved people in the south generally shared a deep commitment to
White supremacy
36
Made abolition a political movement
The liberty party
37
Group of reformed drinkers
Washingtonian society
38
Seneca falls convention
Declaration of sentiments
39
New England transcendentalist
Brook Farm
40
Advocated blacks returning to Africa
American colonization society
41
Tax supported public schools
Common schools
42
A vision for a perfect society
Utopia
43
Area of intensive revivals in New York and Ohio
Burnedover districts
44
Preventing anti-slavery petitions to be heard in Congress
Gag rule
45
Feminist style of dress
Bloomer costume
46
First US black newspaper
Freedoms journal
47
Movement against alcohol
Temperance movement
48
The antebellum utopian communities were largely located in the upper south south
False
49
Although it was an exciting miniature university the transcendentalist Brookfarm community failed in part because of many of the intellectuals who participated dislike farm labor
True
50
Institutions like jails mental hospitals and public schools were inspired by the conviction that those who passed through their doors could eventually be released to become productive self disciplined citizens
True
51
Nearly all abolitionist despite their militant language rejected violence as a means of ending slavery
True
52
Abolitionist consciously identifying the movement with the heritage of the American revolution
True
53
Dorothy Dix advocated for better treatment of the mentally insane
True
54
Participants at Seneca falls and breaks the identification of the home as the woman’s sphere
False
55
Mary Wallstonecraft a vindication of the rights of women influenced future women’s rights leaders
True
56
Overall how did utopian societies in worldly communities Perceive women
Women needed to be treated as equals
57
The reform communities established in the years before the Civil War
Set out to reorganize society on a cooperative basis
58
Which was a goal of education in the new Harmony community
Train children to place the common good above their own desires
59
Utopian communities were unlikely to attract much support because most Americans
Sup property ownership as key to economic independence but nearly all the utopian communities insisted that members give up their property
60
How did the second great awakening influence American society
Inspire seven to come back the sense of society such as alcoholism
61
Which of the following did Horace Mann not propose as a good goal of public schools
Create racial equality
62
Members of which one of the following groups were generally opposed to the temperance movement
Catholics
63
What premise was shared between the policy of Indian removal in the colonization of formerly enslaved people
America was fundamentally and white
64
The New breed of abolitionist that arose in the 1830s
Card for immediate abolition of slavery and equal rights for all African-Americans
65
William Lloyd garrison argued in Thoughts on African colonization that
Blacks we’re not strangers in America to be shipped a ride but should be recognized as a permanent part of American society
66
Which piece of legislation prevented Congress from hearing anti-slavery petitions
Gag rule
67
Which statement is true regarding women in the abolition movement
Much of the abolition movement grassroots Strength derived from northern women
68
The Grimke sisters Where
The first to play the abolitionist doctrine of universal freedom and equality to the status of women
69
What was the greatest accomplishment of the abolitionist by 1840
Making slavery a prominent topic of conversation
70
Most utopian reform communities
Change it to re-organize society on a cooperative basis
71
issued by anti-slavery congressman
Appeal of the independent Democrats
72
Suggested that the US buy or seize Cuba
Ostend manifesto
73
Returned runaway slaves to the masters
Fugitive slave act
74
America’s mission to settle the west
Manifest destiny
75
Texas settlers a Spanish or Mexican descent
Tejanos
76
Set an increase in California’s population
Gold rush
77
Voided the Missouri Compromise
Kansas Nebraska act
78
No slavery in land acquired by Mexico
Wilmont proviso
79
Expedition to central America
Filibustering
80
Opponents to the expansion of slavery
Free soil party
81
Anti-immigrant political party
No nothing party
82
California’s entry into the union as a free state
Compromise of 1850
83
Unlike most previous president James Polk was not a slaveholder
F
84
The issue of Texas annexation was hotly linked to slavery and effective denominations of presidential candidates in the 1840s
True
85
After Texas independence the Tejano’s lost rights and access to land
True 
86
Free labor ideology assume that free labor cannot compete with slave labor and so slavery expansion had to be healthy to ensure freedom for the white laborer
True
87
All Republicans were abolitionist
False
88
The explosive population growth and competition for gold Brett cut cooperation among California’s mini racial and ethnic groups as they work together for wealth
False
89
The Wilmot Provis so never passed as a law
True
90
The fugitive slave act provided for the return of runaway slaves to their owners
True
91
Why did slavery become more central to American politics in the 1840s
Territorial expansion raise the question of where the new land should be free or slave
92
What was the source of conflict between the Mexican government and American settlers in Texas in the 1820s and 1830s
Mexico had abolished slavery but many American settlers were practicing slavery in Texas
93
Which did southern leaders hope to gain by making the Texas territory part of the United States
The territory could potentially be turned into several slave states
94
Who are the following was a critic of the Mexican war
Abraham Lincoln
95
Which statement is true regarding Americans reactions to the Mexican war of 1846 to 1848
A majority of Americans are inspired by the expansionist favor of manifest destiny to support the war
96
Who wrote on civil disobedience as a response to the US war with Mexico
Henry David Thoreau
97
Who questioned President Polk’s right to declare war by introducing a resolution to Congress requesting the president specify the precise spot where blood had first been said
Lincoln
98
Which was true of the constitution of independent Texas
It’s a night race to people of color that they had enjoyed when Mexico control Texas
99
Which proposed resolution supported by the north end opposed by the south attempted to ban slavery in an all territory gained from Mexico
The Wilmot Provis so
100
The free soil party
Appealed to Northern and working class Americans who saw access to Homestead on Western lands is the only possibility for economic independence
101
Which was a component of the know nothing party
Anti-catholic
102
On matters related to citizenship the US Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that
Only white person could be US citizens
103
Why did the southern states secede from the union And form the confederacy
They wanted to preserve slavery
104
Confederate firing up on fort Sumter in April 1861 March the
Beginning of the Civil War
105
Popular sovereignty is the term used to refer to the system in which
The status of slavery would be determined by the votes of local settlers
106
Escape enslaved people
Contraband
107
Deadliest day in American history
Antietam
108
The confederate capital
Richmond
109
Union commitment to not interfere with slavery
Crittenden compromise
110
Surrender of the confederacy
Appomattox
111
Relied on British support
King cotton diplomacy
112
Gettysburg
Picketts charge
113
Another trail of tears
Navajos long walk
114
Freed enslaved people
Negro paradise
115
Spectators came to watch
Bull run
116
Northern opponents of the war
Copperhead
117
What was established by Grant
Emancipation proclamation
118
The state of the Civil War inspired patriotic feelings in both the union and the confederacy
True true
119
Medical knowledge made great strides in the first half of the 19th century thus soldiers died for the moons infections or diseases during the Civil War
False
120
Lincolns primary purpose in raising Troops in 1861 to put down the southern rebellion was to restore the union
True
121
During the Civil War the north and the south both presented their cause as a fight for freedom and liberty 
true
122
Black union soldiers captured by the confederates faced sale into slavery or immediate execution
False
123
Both the confederacy and the union violated their citizens civil liberties during the war
True
124
With the union victory Glorieta pass confederate attempt at attending slavery west of Texas ended
True
125
In the Lincoln’s ten percent plan blacks played a prominent role in reconstruction
False
126
What is one reason the Civil War is often called the first modern war
Industrial technology had created deadlier weapons
127
The majority of men who fight for the union army where
Farm boys shopkeepers artisans and urban workers
128
The majority of men whofought the confederate army were
Non-slaveholding small farmers
129
The defensive war with the hope that the enemy with simply grow tired of fighting what’s the most consistent strategy which general
Robert E Lee
130
Hesitant to support evolution early in the war because he
Feared losing the support of the slaveholding border states within the union
131
Lincoln spoke of a new birth of freedom for the nation in his
Gettysburg address
132
With regard to civil liberties during the Civil War President Lincoln
Suspended the writ ofhabeas corpus
133
Sing the Civil War Congress enacted economic policies long have vacated by many Northerners for example Congress
Granted millions of acres of land to railroad companies to build the transcontinental railroad
134
The blank offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers in the west
Homestead act
135
Which describes the relationship between the Civil War and the campaign for women suffrage
Women who have positions of responsibility during the war became increasingly committed to achieving suffrage when the war ended
136
During the Civil War northern women
Found new permanent places in the fields of nursing government and retail sales
137
In July 1863 the union one team key victories that are often identified as turning point in the war is victories occurred at
Gettysburg Pennsylvania and Vicksburg Mississippi
138
Lincolns 10% plan of reconstruction
Offered amnesty and full restoration of property rights except property in enslaved people to white southerners who take on an oath of loyalty to the union and supported emancipation
139
the blank amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States
13th
140
What was a name given to the group of politicians that were ardently anti-slavery and wanted a strong reconstruction plan that would punish the south for starting the war
radical Republicans
141
Restrictions placed on free blacks in the south
Black codes
142
scandal in the grant administration
The whiskey ring
143
The origin of 40 acres and a mule
Special field order 15
144
Northern born Republicans in the south during reconstruction
Carpet baggers
145
Ended reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
146
Government agency that helps blacks in the south
Freedman’s bureau
147
Black school in Washington DC
Howard university
148
Public official charged with wrongdoing
Impeachment
149
southern born white republican
A scalawag
150
Targeted the KKK
Enforcement acts
151
Democrats who took control in the south during the 1870s
Redeemers
152
A terrorist organization
The KKK
153
The Friedmans bureau presaged some government social policies that let it be enacted during the great depression
True
154
Because of land redistribution the vast majority of the rural Freedmen and freed women prospered during reconstruction
False
155
Compared to rebels and the rest of world history’s civil wars, the rebels of the defeated confederacy were treated very harshly
False false
156
With the passage of the 14th amendment all people from the United States were automatically citizens
false
157
Black suffrage made little difference in the south as very few blacks voted or ran for public office during the reconstruction
F
158
White southern democrats considered scalawags traders to both the party and their race
True
159
The KKK tended to be led by Planters merchants and democratic politicians
True
160
Sharecropping system became less oppressive overtime
F
161
General William T Sherman special field order 15
Set aside land to distribute among black families
162
For most formally enslaved people freedom first and foremost meant
Land ownership
163
In the Republican free labor vision of a reconstructed self
Southern black in North White workers would enjoy the same opportunities in the south would become more like the north
164
The Friedmans bureau greatest accomplishments were in
Education and healthcare
165
Which of the following statements accurately describes the sharecropping system
Sharecroppers rented land and split the crops with the plantation owners
166
The southern black codes
Allowed arrest and vagrancy charges a formerly enslaved people who failed to sign yearly labor contracts
167
Radical Republicans
Hoped to institutionalize the principle of equal rights for all regardless of race
168
Which of the following statements is true of the 14th amendment
It prohibited All states from denying equal protection of the laws to any person
169
Why was Andrew Jackson acquitted on charges of impeachment
Johnson’s lawyers of shady moderate Republicans that he would stop interfering with reconstruction policy so several voted to acquit him
170
Waving the bloody shirt referred to
A Republican attempt to associate Democrats with secession and treason
171
The 15th Amendment
Guaranteed that one could not be denied suffrage based on race
172
If a man from Maine came to live in the south as a teacher what would most likely he’d be labeled as
A carpet bagger
173
The enforcement acts passed by Congress in 1870 and 1871 were designed to
Stop the activities of terrorist groups such as the KKK
174
In the 1870s who claim to have saved the white south from the corruption of the northern and black officials
Redeemers
175
After the ratification of the 15th amendment in 1870 which group was still not guaranteed a constitutional right to vote
Women
176
How were slaves able to create a community life
They formed their own Christian religion
Having their own family and going by traditional roles of a family
177
In what ways did abolitionism lend vision to the antislavery movement?
Abolitionists were the first to purpose the concept of giving slaves equals rights
178
Slavery became a hot topic in politics because
Territorial expansion cause the argument of who can be a slave and free state
179
What did the end of the civil war settle?
That the US could be a unified nation
And end slavery
180
What did slaves think was freedom
Get education and land
Not being subjected to punishment and inequalities ofslavery
Empowerment right to vole economic independence
Landownership
181
What were the reconstruction annondments
13 14 15
Abolish slavery
Born in US is citizen
No state can deprive anyone of rights
