Exam 2

Question 1

The largest slave trading center in the lower south was located in which of the following cities?

Answer 1

New Orleans

Question 2

The technology that supported and made possible the westward expansion of slavery into the Mississippi Valley was

Answer 2

The cotton gin

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Washington DC

Question 4

The 1860 price for the Pinefield hand in New Orleans is listed as which of the following?

Answer 4

$1800

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Jim Crow laws

Question 6

Which of the following offenses was punishable by death and slave holding states?

Answer 6

All of the above

Question 7

An adaptation of the militia__ was the citizen group set up enforcing pertaining to slaves

Answer 7

The slave patrol

Question 8

The ____ system of production prevailed on most of the large agricultural plantations of the south

Answer 8

Gang labor

Question 9

Adjusted slave who assisted the master by enticing and compelling his fellow slaves to work harder and was known as a

Answer 9

Driver

Question 10

The staples of the slave diet were generally salt pork and

Answer 10

Corn meal

Question 11

The most common form of overt slave resistance in the agriculture south was

Answer 11

Running away

Question 12

What abolitionist stated “arbitrary power is to the mind what alcohol is to body; eight intoxicates”?

Answer 12

Theodore Dwight weld

Question 13

Who was the so-called president of the underground railroad?

Answer 13

Levi coffin

Question 14

What was lincolns overreaching go as he took office?

Answer 14

To Preserve the union

Question 15

By the end of the war, how many blacks had in rolled in the union army?

Answer 15

186,000

Question 16

Which of the following statements best describes black soldiers participation in the Civil War?

Answer 16

From the late 1862, there was hardly a battle fought in which some black troops did not participate

Question 17

Approximately how many black soldiers lost their lives in the Civil War?

Answer 17

38,000

Question 18

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?

Answer 18

$7 and $3

Question 19

How did the famous 54th Massachusetts regiment protest pay iniquities between black and white soldiers?

Answer 19

They served a year without pay

Question 20

When did the confederacy finally allow the enrollment of black soldiers?

Answer 20

in the last day of war, in March 1855

Question 21

What years did reconstruction span?

Answer 21

1865 to 1876

Question 22

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?

Answer 22

Tennessee

Question 23

Which reconstruction amendment overturn the Dred Scott decision?

Answer 23

Fourteenth

Question 24

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 ___

Answer 24

1966

Question 25

And what state, during reconstruction, did blacks wield the greatest influence?

Answer 25

South Carolina