Unit 6 test Flashcards
Define abolitionist
Someone who wants to end slavery.
Why did white southerners who did not own slaves still support slavery?
They understood that slavery was a fact of the economy of the south but they wanted to someday own their own.
Cotton became the main crop of the south because of what/ who’s invention?
Eli Whitney’s cotton Gin that could do the work of some slaves. was first made to eliminate slavery but instead allowed more slaves to work the fields.
Where did slaves work?
3/4ths of all slaves worked in the fields
how were free blacks treated in the North/South?
The north~ Discriminated, only have certain jobs, couldn’t live anywhere, couldn’t attend schools
The south~ Couldn’t travel freely, had to have papers
What was the issue with creating new states out of the Louisiana territory?
slavery in the western lands became a major problem.
In 1820 the ___ settled the issue of slavery out of the Lousiana Territory
Missouri compromise drew a line between Louisiana territory anything above was free anything south of the line was slavery.
Name the 4 parts of the compromise of 1850 that was the most controversial.
(1) California was admitted to the Union as a free state
(2) the remainder of the Mexican cession was divided into the two territories of New Mexico and Utah and organized without mention of slavery
3) the claim of Texas to a portion of New Mexico was satisfied by a payment of $10 million
(4) new legislation (the Fugitive Slave Act) was passed to apprehend runaway slaves and return them to their masters
Which senator called for popular sovereignty in the issue of deciding slavery in Kansas and Nebraska?
Senator Stephan Douglass of Illinois
Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act lead to “ Bleeding Kansas”?
Men crossed the border from Missouri to vote illegally, turned violent, Kansas was burned, Jhon brown killed racist men in Poweattomie, bloodshed, bleeding Kansas.
What was the supreme court’s ruling on Dreds scott v Standford?
Slaves who had resided in a free state and territory were not entitled to freedom and it was unconstitutional.
What did John Brown and his men do in Harpers Ferry, Virginia that made him a hero among abolitionists
Jhon b and his men raided the arsenal at hopper fairy hoping to give the weapons to slaves so they could fight for freedom he was hung for his crime.
Which presidential election showed how deeply divided the nation was over slavery?
The election of 1860
What was the event that turned the secession crisis into a civil war
South Carolina’s shelling of Fort Sumter
What was the souths greatest strength at the beginning of the war?
There military strength
