Week 1 origins of the US civil war

Question 1

Between 1525-1866 how many Africans were forcibly transported to the new world?

Answer 1

12.5 million

Question 2

what is was the middle passage and how many Africans survived it?

Answer 2

It was the forced voyage across the Atlantic ocean to the new world of enslaved Africans and an estimated 10.7 million survived.

Question 3

What history was made August 20, 1619?

Answer 3

The first enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown Virginia setting the stage for slavery in America.

Question 4

During and after the American Revolution what did most northern states do?

Answer 4

Abolished slavery

Question 5

Who invented the Cotton Gin in 1793?

Answer 5

Eli Whitney

Question 6

What expanded as a result of the invention of the Cotton Gin?

Answer 6

Slavery expanded along with the “cotton boom”

Question 7

The expansion of slavery predicated on the…

Answer 7

“Indian Removal”

Question 8

To feed the labor demands of the Upper South, slave owners…

Answer 8

Bred and sold enslaved Africans relocating roughly 1 million through a domestic slave trade.

Question 9

What was the Second Middle passage?

Answer 9

Was known as the domestic, or internal, slave trade in America.

Question 10

What was the largest forced migrations in US history?

Answer 10

The second middle passage, relocating roughly 200,000 enslaved africans each decade between 1820 and 1860

Question 11

By 1850 how many enslaved Africans were producing cotton in the Deep South following the “Indian removal”

Answer 11

1.8 million out of the 3.2 million were producing cotton hence “King Cotton”

Question 12

By 1860 how many Africans were enslaved in America?

Answer 12

3.95 million were enslaved out of the total 4.4 million in America.

Question 13

what was the 1787 US Constitution 3/5ths compromise?

Answer 13

It determined that three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state’s total population for legislative representation and taxation.

Question 14

Controversy over westward settlement and the balance between free and slave states resolved by prohibiting slavery from the Louisiana territory north of Missouri’s southern border

Answer 14

1820 Missouri Compromise

Question 15

Following the Mexican-American war, a package of new laws forestalled further crisis by allowing new territories to determine legality of slavery, admitted California as a free state, banned slave trade in Washington, D.C., and passed a new Fugitive Slave Law.

Answer 15

1850 compromise

Question 16

The abolitionist movement

Answer 16

was an organized effort to end the practice of slavery in the United States.

Question 17

The American Colonization society was founding in 1816 and proposed…

Answer 17

an end to slavery by freeing those
enslaved and transporting them back to Africa

Question 18

Second Great Awakening

Answer 18

A Protestant religious revival
movement, that gained momentum during the
1820s and inspired a more radical abolitionist
movement in the North

Question 19

What was the major cause of the Civil War?

Answer 19

the humanitarian and economic issue of slavery

Question 20

After Lincoln won the election of 1860 what did the southern states do?

Answer 20

They seceded which gave them opportunity to challenge slavery when it had no longer had federal protection.

Question 21

What was the attempted Crittenden compromise (1861)?

Answer 21

Failed attempt to avoid civil war by proposing slavery never be abolished in the slave states of America.

Question 22

The civil war begins on….

Answer 22

April 12, 1861 with the Union firing on the Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay