Unit 5 test

Question 1

slavery

Answer 1

a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them

Question 2

indentured servitude

Answer 2

an employee with a system of unfree labor with a signed contract and after of a few years they are free

Question 3

domestic slaves

Answer 3

worked in a plantation house

Question 4

plantation slaves

Answer 4

worked from sunup to sundown six days a week, lived in small shacks with dirt floors and little to no furniture

Question 5

arguments for slavery

Answer 5

– Someone has to do the work no one wants to
– Slavery teaches Africans to be better people
– Slave owners are afraid of what will happen if let the slaves go

Question 6

controlling slaves

Answer 6

punish the slaves harshly so they would be so scared to do the same thing

Question 7

goal of abolition movement

Answer 7

to end slavery and to end the Atlantic slave trade and set all slaves free

Question 8

abolitionists

Answer 8

a person who wanted slavery to be abolished or over, contributed to freeing slaves by signing petitions, delivering protest speeches, harboring runaway slaves

Question 9

Nat Turner

Answer 9

led a slave rebellion and killed 55-65 people

Question 10

John Brown

Answer 10

an abolitionist who believed in violence to overthrow slavery by stealing weapons, arm the slaves and lead them in rebellion

Question 11

Missouri Compromise

Answer 11

Any new state that enter the union above the imaginary line would be a “Free state” and below the line a “Slave State”

Question 12

Compromise of 1850

Answer 12

People of the territories could decide for themselves whether to allow or prohibit slavery for Utah and New Mexico territories

Question 13

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 13

required northerners to return runaways slaves to the South

Question 14

Dred Scott vs. Sanford

Answer 14

Dred Scott’s owner moved often and took Scott with him in free and slave states. He sued for his freedom because he was taken to places where slavery was illegal. The Supreme Court ruled that black people were not citizens and had no right to sue in the first place

Question 15

The Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 15

declared slaves freed, but in reality didn’t free any slaves

Question 16

Fredrick Douglass

Answer 16

one of the leaders of the abolitionist movement, former slave. known for his noteworthy speeches

Question 17

reconstruction

Answer 17

– The time period following the Civil War
– Emotional rebuild
– Physical
– Mental (change people’s minds)

Question 18

13th amendment

Answer 18

abolished slavery

Question 19

14th amendment

Answer 19

made every person born in the United States a citizen

Question 20

15th amendment

Answer 20

gave all men the right to vote

Question 21

Black Codes

Answer 21

laws that would restrict the lives of newly freed African American population in the South West

Question 22

prejudice

Answer 22

bias opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience

Question 23

racism

Answer 23

prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior

Question 24

discrimination

Answer 24

the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex

Question 25

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 25

segregated all aspects in society

Question 26

segregation

Answer 26

the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things
ex: schools, businesses, parks, bathrooms, etc.

Question 27

poll tax

Answer 27

fee charge to vote

Question 28

literacy test

Answer 28

determines the qualification of a voter based on his/her his ability to read and write or ability to read and understand any section of the State or Federal Constitution

Question 29

Grandfather clauses

Answer 29

if your grandfather could vote before the Civil War, you could vote, made sure that only whites could vote.

Question 30

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Answer 30

– Plessy was one-eighth black and sat in the “whites only” car of the train
– When he told to vacate the seat he refused, sued saying the Separate Car Act violated the 13th amendment

Question 31

Plessy vs. Ferguson impact on society

Answer 31

o Supreme Court upholds “Jim Crow”
o Jim Crow = laws of racial segregation
o Segregation = separation