The Civil Wat

Question 0

What were the jobs of the house servants and why were there so many?

Answer 0

Jobs: cared for house, garden, yard, cooked meals, drove carriages etc.
The #s wer large cuz planters wanted to seem rich plus better treatment

Question 1

Besides cotton farming, what other agricultural plantations typically had slaves?

Answer 1

Tabbacco, rice, and sugar cane plantations

Question 2

What was the gang system?

Answer 2

Overseer takes out group and assigns them a specific task

Question 3

What other resbonsibilities did slaves have besides crop?

Answer 3

Clearing land, burning underbrush, rolling logs, splitting rails, carrying water, mending fences, spreading fertilizer and breaking soil

Question 4

What wer the work hours of plantation slaves?

Answer 4

Sunrise till sunset unless full moon or harvest, then longer

Question 5

Why was little accomplished during an overseers absesnce?o

Answer 5

No purpose for slaves, no cause to work

Question 6

Why was phnishment necessary?

Answer 6

Without it no motivation to work(slaves)

Question 7

Why were overseers more cruel than plantation owners?

Answer 7

Cared less about slaves and their value, power crazed

Question 8

Describe slave food and clothing rations

Answer 8

Poor weekly food rations self prepared, shoes only in the winter, and rough cloth clothing

Question 9

Describe slave houses

Answer 9

Dirt huts with no windows or floors that were poorly furnished.

Question 10

Who was William Lloyd Garrison and his message regarding the abolition of slavery?

Answer 10

W.L.G. Was creator and editor of ab paper called liberator and believed jn emancipation of all slaces

Question 11

Why was WLG unpoplular with other abolitionists?

Answer 11

Extreme and blamed churches and gov for failing to condemn slavery

Question 12

Describe the life of Fredrick Douglas

Answer 12

Born into slavery, taught to read and write, had high paying job later but was not paid therefore ran off to New york and became well known abolitionist lecturer for anti-skave society

Question 13

Why was slavery so profitable?

Answer 13

• worldwide demand

- investment that keeps on giving

Question 14

How did the south defend slavery?

Answer 14

• biblical
• necessary evil to pos good
• great civs had slaves
• better than factory

Question 15

Who was Harriet Tubman?

Answer 15

She was an escaped slave that led 19 trips, 300+ slaves through the underground railroad which had a big impact on the south

Question 16

Why did other groups in the south who didnt own slaves defend slavery?

Answer 16

Small farmers wanted their own, craftsmen didnt want them to take their jobs, bankers wanted to get paid back lians, merchants wanted slaves for profit, and poor whites didnt want to be at the very bottom of soc chain

Question 17

Who was Nat Turner and what did he do?

Answer 17

He was a slave who led a rebellion made up of about 80 slaves who went between 4 plantations and killed 60 whites, however this later caused the white retalliation killing of 200 or more slaves who werent even involved and for slaves to be treated more strictly

Question 18

What was the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 18

Gave south fugitive slave laws and north cali as a slave free state

Question 19

What wer fugitive slave laws?

Answer 19

Laws that allowed owners to claim and take back slaves without a trial-benefitted south

Question 20

What were the personal liberty laws?

Answer 20

Laws the north made saying no slave could be taken back without a fair trial

Question 21

Give a summary of the dred scott case and what its result was?

Answer 21

……slaves property

Question 22

What did the protective tariff do?

Answer 22

It forced the south to spend more and buy more from north factories

Question 23

What was “uncle toms cabin”?

Answer 23

A book written in slave perspective that was banned in south

Question 24

What was the republican party and what did they believe in?

Answer 24

-protective tariffs
- no slavery in new territories
A political party

Question 25

What was the democrat party and what did they stand fir?

Answer 25

-slavery

Question 26

What was the souths economy based on?

Answer 26

Cash crops(king cotton) and slavery

Question 27

What did the norths economy depend on?

Answer 27

Manufacturing, also railroads

Question 28

What is sectionalism?

Answer 28

The devotion to the inetrests of a section kf a country rather than the countries interests as a whole

Question 29

What is pop sov?

Answer 29

The ability of a states pop to decide whether or not that state should be slave or free

Question 30

What does the term bleeding kansas mean?

Answer 30

It was a phrase used to describe the violence in lawrence city kansas between the abolitionists and proslavery ppl

Question 31

Why did the south suceedd?

Answer 31

• inability to compromise
• economic diffs
• political loss of power
• stereotypes
• slavery

Question 32

What was diff about the confederacy constitution?

Answer 32

• garunteed existence of slavery
• final authority of major issues with states
• protective tariff prohibited
• pres serves for 6years

Question 33

What was fort sumter?

Answer 33

A federal fort in charleston; south carolinas harbor which the south wanted control of, took lincolns foid as threat and attacked. Only xasualty was a horse

Question 34

How was the battle of bull run a surprise to the union?

Answer 34

Their troops quickly retreated

Question 35

What were blockade runners?

Answer 35

Ships that got supplies for the south and wer able to speed past northern navy blockade

Question 36

Why was battle of antietam a turning point?

Answer 36

Loss of soldiers for south, shattered invasion if n, and led to emanci procli

Question 37

What was the result of the emancipation proclamation?

Answer 37

Changed purpose of war, but did not free any slaves

Question 38

What was shermans march to sea?

Answer 38

General grant ordered soliders to go into south and inflict as much damage as possible to damage their war resources

Question 39

Where did lee surrender

Answer 39

Appamattox courthouse(city)