Exam 2 Flashcards
The largest slave trading center in the lower south was located in which of the following cities?
New Orleans
The technology that supported and made possible the westward expansion of slavery into the Mississippi Valley was
The cotton gin
Although never the largest slave market, ____ was one of the most notable, and often shot the many visitors from all over the country and so close by congressional action in 1850
Washington DC
The 1860 price for the Pinefield hand in New Orleans is listed as which of the following?
$1800
Laws put in place by the slaveholding southern states to safe guard the white population and protect the owning Rights of the Masters were called
Jim Crow laws
Which of the following offenses was punishable by death and slave holding states?
All of the above
An adaptation of the militia__ was the citizen group set up enforcing pertaining to slaves
The slave patrol
The ____ system of production prevailed on most of the large agricultural plantations of the south
Gang labor
Adjusted slave who assisted the master by enticing and compelling his fellow slaves to work harder and was known as a
Driver
The staples of the slave diet were generally salt pork and
Corn meal
The most common form of overt slave resistance in the agriculture south was
Running away
What abolitionist stated “arbitrary power is to the mind what alcohol is to body; eight intoxicates”?
Theodore Dwight weld
Who was the so-called president of the underground railroad?
Levi coffin
What was lincolns overreaching go as he took office?
To Preserve the union
By the end of the war, how many blacks had in rolled in the union army?
186,000
Which of the following statements best describes black soldiers participation in the Civil War?
From the late 1862, there was hardly a battle fought in which some black troops did not participate
Approximately how many black soldiers lost their lives in the Civil War?
38,000
The enlistment act of July 17, 1862 provided that whites with the rank of private should be paid $13 a month and $3.50 for clothing. What or black privates to be paid?
$7 and $3
How did the famous 54th Massachusetts regiment protest pay iniquities between black and white soldiers?
They served a year without pay
When did the confederacy finally allow the enrollment of black soldiers?
in the last day of war, in March 1855
What years did reconstruction span?
1865 to 1876
Which state was not affected by the passage of the reconstruction act of 1867, the act which brought control of reconstruction firmly into the hands of Congress?
Tennessee
Which reconstruction amendment overturn the Dred Scott decision?
Fourteenth
Blanche K Bruce left the Senate in 1881. He was the only black person to serve a full term in that body until the election of Edward Brooke? A Republican for Massachusetts, is ___
1966
And what state, during reconstruction, did blacks wield the greatest influence?
South Carolina
