Questions M. 14 l. 3 and M. 15 L. 1-2-4

Question 1

What increased the demand for labor?

Answer 1

Cotton Gin

Question 2

Where (Location) did most slaves work?

Answer 2

On plantations in the South

Question 3

What did most slaves work?

Answer 3

the fields, planting, tending, picking, and processing cotton.

Question 4

When (time) did slaves normal work?

Answer 4

Sunup to sundown

Question 5

Who directed the work of slaves?

Answer 5

Overseers

Question 6

How were Enslaved African American living conditions usually?

Answer 6

-Tiny cabins
-leaky roofs
-dirty floors
-Poor food
-old dirty clothing

Question 7

What were some of the punishments they got if they didn’t do what they were told to do?

Answer 7

Harsh punishment, including beatings, withholding food, and threatening family members, was commonly used to encourage obedience.

Question 8

Slaves didn’t just work on farms they worked in cities what were they called?

Answer 8

Domestic Servants

Question 9

What was a main religion that Slaves practiced and why?

Answer 9

Christianity, because slaves were particularly inspired by the story of Moses, who led his people out of slavery in Egypt

Question 10

What did slaves add to Christianity that made it there own religion?

Answer 10

Features of traditional African religion

Spirituals

Question 11

What were some Oral Tradition stories about?

Answer 11

Often featured animals with human characteristics and sometimes had morals for children to learn

Question 12

Why would slaves sing Spiritual?

Answer 12

Singing Spirituals offered comfort for pain, eased the drudgery of daily work, and bound people together

Question 13

Who was Nat Turner?

Answer 13

A slave

Question 14

After Nat Turner’s Revolt what happened with Nat Turner?

Answer 14

Nat Turner was captured and executed

Question 15

What did the state’s government do after Nat Turner’s Rebellion?

Answer 15

Many states strengthened their slave codes

Question 16

What did Nat Turner say when he was cought?

Answer 16

When Turner was caught, he said that the revolt was justified and that it was worth dying for

Question 17

What were most Europeans immune to ?

Answer 17

Measles, smallpox, and Typhus

Question 18

Why did so many Native Americans die after the Europeans arrived in America?

Answer 18

Native Americans had no resistance to these diseases, because they were never exposed to them

Question 19

What was the problem with Native Americans dying?

Answer 19

There were a shortage of Native Americans to work as labor in the fields

Question 20

Who had the main problem with Native Americans dying?

Answer 20

With a shortage of Native American workers, Spanish and Portuguese plantation owners had to find other sources of cheap labor.

Question 21

What did Americans think that the solution of shortage of Native Americans was?

Answer 21

To get slaves from West Afcria

Question 22

What government legalized the sale of slaves in the colonies?

Answer 22

Spanish Government

Question 23

Why did many slaves die on the Middle Passage?

Answer 23

Many slaves died of sickness, suffocation, or malnutrition during the voyage

Question 24

What position as a slave did you get better food, clothing, and shelter but required more hours of work?

Answer 24

Working in the Planter’s Home

Question 25

What system did planters use to get their fields farmed?

Answer 25

Gang labor System

Question 26

What did some states pass?

Answer 26

Slave codes to control slaves’ actions

Question 27

Where did most slave trading or buying happen?

Answer 27

At slave auctions

Question 28

What’s an example of a slave code or law that was passed?

Answer 28

In some states it was illegal to teach slaves to read and write

Question 29

How did slaves pass down heritage?

Answer 29

Through oral histories and folktales

Question 30

Did slaves worship right in front of there slave owners?

Answer 30

They Worshipped in secret, out of sight of slaveholders

Question 31

What are some ways enslaved slaves rebelled in small ways?

Answer 31

-working slower

-running away for days or trying to escape permanently

-sabotaging equipment

Question 32

What is one thing that Christian slaves believed?

Answer 32

That in God’s eyes, they were equal to anyone else

Question 33

Where did Nat Turner’s Rebellion happen?

Answer 33

Virginia

Question 34

After the Mexican-American War What caused bitter slavery dispute?

Answer 34

Additional land gained

Question 35

What prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30’?

Answer 35

Missouri Compromise of 1820

Question 36

Who offered the Wilmot Proviso, and when did they offer it?

Answer 36

During the Mexican-American War
Representative David Wilmot

Question 37

Was the Wilmot Proviso passed?

Answer 37

was not passed

Question 38

Since the Wilmot Provis was not passed what did it reveal?

Answer 38

Growing Sectionalism

Question 39

Who formed the Free-Soil Party and what did they support?

Answer 39

-Antislavery northerners
-They supported the Wilmot Provis

Question 40

Which area of the country supported slavery more? The South or the North? And why?

Answer 40

South, because in the South it was mainly farmland, and farmers need slaves to work the fields. If farmers did have slaves than they wouldn’t have anyone working the fields.

Question 41

What was the Free-Soil Party?

Answer 41

It was a political party

Question 42

Who offered the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 42

Senator Henry Clay

Question 43

What did the Compromise of 1850 do?

Answer 43

It’s purpose was to maintain Americas free/slavery states balance.
Also,
-California would enter the union
-Texas borders would be set and would give up western and northern territory’s for the U.S. to pay for Texas debt from when it was an independent republic.
-The rest of Mexico’s lands would become part of the United States. A vote would determinate if slavery was to happen
-Slave would end at the U.S. capital
- Fugitive Slave Act law would be passed

Question 44

Why did the U.S. need the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 44

The compromise was necessary in part because some southerners thought their states should secede from the Union.

Question 45

What did the Fugitive Slave Act do?

Answer 45

-Made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest runaway slaves in free areas
-Slaveholders could take suspected fugitives to U.S. commissioners, who decided their fate. Commissioners received more money for returning them to slaveholders.
-Accused fugitives could not testify on their own behalf.
-Enforcement of act immediately

Question 46

What did a lot slaves do in fear of the Fugitive Slave Act?

Answer 46

Thousands of northern African Americans fled to Canada in fear

Question 47

Who was Anthony Burns?

Answer 47

A Virginian fugitive returned to slavery with federal help in 1854

Question 48

Many people persuaded people to join What?

Answer 48

Abolitionist cause

Question 49

What did Northern abolitionists use to gain sympathy for their cause?

Answer 49

stories of fugitive slaves

Question 50

What is one influential antislavery novel published in 1852 and who wrote it?

Answer 50

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 51

Where was Senator Henry Clay from?

Answer 51

Kentucky

Question 52

Where did abolitionists try to rescue Anthony Burns from?

Answer 52

Boston Jail

Question 53

Who tried to rescue Anthony Burns from jail and how did it end?

Answer 53

Abolitionists
Ended in violence

Question 54

How did slaves keep their culture alive?

Answer 54

Oral Tradition

Question 55

How could slaves buy their freedom?

Answer 55

Some skilled slaves were able to save their own freedom

Question 56

How were laws used to control slaves?

Answer 56

Laws limited what slaves could do

Question 57

What factors caused colonists to decide to use African slaves?

Answer 57

Native Americans died so they needed someone to work the plantations for them