Road to the Civil War 2, use this one

Question 1

What’s different about the geography of the North vs. the South?

Answer 1

The North has a cold, rocky environment not good for large scale farming while the South has a warm, swampy environment perfect for large scale farming. The North also has lot’s of forests and rivers leaving less room for the large scale farms. Swamps in the South were good fertilizer for the crops.

Question 2

What was the first major cash crop in the South?

Answer 2

Tobacco

Question 3

What was the most important cash crop during this time period?

Answer 3

Cotton

Question 4

What was the economy in the North like?

Answer 4

A business and industry economy, constantly growing, more modern,

Question 5

Where were most of the North’s factories?

Answer 5

Along the Atlantic coast because it gave them water to power their factories.

Question 6

Why was there so much urbanization in the North?

Answer 6

People moved to the cities to be close to where they worked, the factories.

Question 7

What are interchangeable parts?

Answer 7

Make it so that you can replace parts instead of whole things

Question 8

Why are machine tools important?

Answer 8

Make producing things faster because it doesn’t have to be done by hand.

Question 9

What is division of labor?

Answer 9

Dividing the work among a large group of people.

Question 10

What three things led to mass production?

Answer 10

interchangeable parts + division of labor + machine tools

Question 11

Where was the new revolutionary cotton spinning technology developed and was it legal to share it?

Answer 11

It was developed in Britain and it was illegal to share it

Question 12

Who snuck the forbidden cotton spinning information into the US?

Answer 12

Samuel Slater

Question 13

How did the new information about cotton make cotton production grow?

Answer 13

before the cotton mill, spinning cotton was a long hard process , machine made it much easier.

Question 14

Is Samuel Slater a traitor or a hero?

Answer 14

A traitor because he was a British citizen and it was illegal for him to sneak the info out, betrayed country
A hero because he was the one who made America’s industrial revolution take off.

Question 15

What is the main difference between the Lowell System and the Rhode Island System?

Answer 15

Lowell System hired young, unmarried women while the Rhode Island System hired whole families.

Question 16

What was one advantage of the Lowell System over the Rhode Island System?

Answer 16

Since the workers of the Lowell System were young, unmarried women, they required less pay and didn’t have families that they were excited to get home to. There were also more of them.

Question 17

What was one advantage of the Rhode Island System over the Lowell System?

Answer 17

Since they hired whole families, they had a variety of workers from little kids who could reach into tiny spaces to big strong men to do the heavy lifting.

Question 18

What was life like as a mill girl?

Answer 18

It was brutal, low wages, long hours, and some only got two breaks throughout the whole day for breakfast and dinner.

Question 19

What places did people immigrate from and why?

Answer 19

Europeans- looking for freedom and jobs
People from Ireland- fleeing from famine, they were having trouble growing their potatoes
Germans- fleeing political forces

Question 20

Were Americans racist and discriminatory against the immigrants?

Answer 20

YES

Question 21

How did the number of immigrants rise throughout the years?

Answer 21

went from 100,000 immigrants per year to 2.5 million immigrants per year

Question 22

What was the economy in the South like?

Answer 22

Centered around large farms, operated almost entirely off of slave labor. Warm swampy land perfect for farms, swamps were good ferilizer.

Question 23

When was the cotton gin invented and who invented it?

Answer 23

1794- Eli Whitney

Question 24

How did the cotton gin actually increase the demand for slaves?

Answer 24

They started producing so much more cotton that they needed many more slaves to farm the cotton.

Question 25

How long before the Civil War had slavery been a source of argument?

Answer 25

Since the Deceleration of Independence was written.

Question 26

What was the 3/5 Compromise? (What did it say?)

Answer 26

According to Google, “Three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.” In other words, one slave counted as 3/5 of a whole person.

Question 27

How did the 3/5 Compromise benefit both the North and the South?

Answer 27

It was good for the North because they could collect more taxes from the South with the higher population.
It was good for the South because they would get more representation in Congress.

Question 28

What is another name for the Slave Trade Clause?

Answer 28

Slave Importation Ban

Question 29

What did the Fugitive Slave Clause lead to?

Answer 29

Led to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

Question 30

What was the Slave Trade Clause?

Answer 30

It said that there would be no discussion on the abolition of slavery until after 1808.

Question 31

What was the Fugitive Slave Clause?

Answer 31

Was added in direct opposition to the Somerset Case, which gives any enslaved person or freedom seeker who breathes the free air of Britain their freedom. The authors wanted to ensure that the same wouldn’t happen in the US.

Question 32

What would an abolitionist want to do?

Answer 32

Get rid of slavery all together.

Question 33

What does a free soiler believe

Answer 33

They accept slavery where it’s at but don’t want slavery to spread

Question 34

What do people who believe in popular sovereignty believe?

Answer 34

It should be up to the individual states to decide whether slavery should be allowed. (The people vote)

Question 35

What would a secessionist believe?

Answer 35

They were pro slavery and wanted to break off the South into another country

Question 36

Explain the Missouri Compromise.

Answer 36

Maine requests to be admitted as a state, but that creates a problem with an unequal number of slave states to free states. This would be a problem because it would cause unequal representation in Congress. Missouri would be added at the same time as Maine as a pro slavery state. That way the balance is kept. Then from them on, the 36 30 lattidude line would determine whether states would be free or slave states. North of the line would be free, South of the line would be pro slavery.

Question 37

How many years does the Missouri Compromise last for?

Answer 37

30 years

Question 38

What is Henry Clay also know as?

Answer 38

“The Great Compromiser”

Question 39

Explain the Compromise of 1850.

Answer 39

The gold rush caused California’s (which wasn’t officially a state yet) population to grow rapidly and so California applied to be a state. The problem was that most of California was against slavery, but another anti-slavery state would create an imbalance between the number of free states and slave states. The terms of the compromise were that California would be a free state while the rest of the land won from Mexico would be divided up and slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty.

Question 40

What was the new fugitive slave law like?

Answer 40

It forced Southerners to bring slaves back to the South to their slave owners

Question 41

What kinds of houses did slaves live in?

Answer 41

They lived in very small plain houses on the plantations that they worked. Houses didn’t have air conditioning or heating. They slept on the floor and often 6-8 people stayed in one home. For many, their meals were leftovers or scraps from the slave owner’s family’s dinner. Made up for their diet by gardening vegetables.

Question 42

What is one way that innocent people often got forced into slavery?

Answer 42

Slave hunters would capture anybody that they thought might be the slave because all they cared about was the money. A lot of times, innocent people would be caught by slave hunters and sold into slavery.

Question 43

What helped to strengthen the Fugitive Slave Act?

Answer 43

The Compromise of 1850

Question 44

What were three secret symbols that helped people on the Underground Railroad?

Answer 44

Cornrows, songs, and quilts

Question 45

Around how many slaves did the Underground Railroad help escape?

Answer 45

Over 100,000

Question 46

What did Thomas Jefferson do to end the “Evil Empire” of slavery?

Answer 46

Banned the Trans-Atlantic slave trade although it didn’t work very well. Basically he stopped slaves from coming into the US, but it didn’t actually harm slave owners that much.

Question 47

Who made the rulings of the Dred Scott case?

Answer 47

Cheif Justice Roger Taney

Question 48

What were the four rulings of the Dred Scott case?

Answer 48

1. Enslaved people aren’t citizens, so they cannot sue.
2. Enslaved people are property and can be taken anywhere.
3. Because the 5th amendment protected property, Congress could not ban slavery from any territory.
4. The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

Question 49

How did the Dred Scott Case negatively impact the Republican party?

Answer 49

Something big that the party had ran on was ending the spread of slavery and this case ensured that that wouldn’t happen

Question 50

Name 2 reasons why the Dred Scott case was one of the worst court cases in America of all time.

Answer 50

• stated that humans were only property and that they could be taken anywhere
• took away their rights to sue, doesn’t live up to America’s promise that all men are created equal

Question 51

Compare and contrast the Compromise of 1850 to the Missouri Compromise.

Answer 51

I don’t know a good answer but I’m pretty sure its a test question so study it!!! lol

Question 52

What was one lasting consequence of the Black Literacy Bans?

Answer 52

Since people weren’t able to write things down, a lot of information that we know are just stories that were passed down and or told by free men who were slaves. This is especially true for first hand accounts.

Question 53

Why were the Black Literacy Bans not considered unconstitutional?

Answer 53

Because despite the fact that the first amendment gives us the right to ensemble, the slaves weren’t seen as people. They were seen as property so it didn’t matter.

Question 54

Explain Nat Turner’s rebellion.

Answer 54

In 1831, a group of enslaved people led by Nat Turner killed nearly 60 whites in Virginia. Virginia executed 56 people for participating in the rebellion.

Question 55

What caused the Black Literacy Bans?

Answer 55

Sorta Nat Turner’s rebellion.