Unit 4 study guide(u.s history s1)
The cotton gin was invented by Anthony JohnsonJohn CastorEli Whitney.
Eli Whitney
The North Star was published by:
Frederick Douglass
Why was Senator Charles Sumner attacked in the Senate chamber?
He favored the free-soil constitution of Kansas.
Which statement is not true of John Brown's raid?
John Brown became a martyr for most Southerners.
What best defines compromise?
Missouri was admitted as a slave state; Maine as a free state
What group opposed slavery enough to house runaways?
Quakers
Who led people into Mexican state of Texas under the idea of increasing trade and improving the land with American settlers?
Stephen Austin
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was introduced by:
Stephen Douglas
The four factors that caused New England manufacturers to start spinning mills were:
power from waterfalls available cotton the Embargo available labor
Supreme political power or authority is commonly known as
sovereignty
An example of a policy to buttress one's position would be:
the Spanish granting large tracts of land in Texas to American settlers
Under Clay's "American System," the factories protected by the tariff would run at a profit and employ:
the urban population
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a best seller, Uncle Tom's Cabin, that southerners found
wrongly stereotyping them with a biased viewpoint.
1.sued for his freedom but lost 2.effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise 3.black freedman living in New York, captured and sold in the New Orleans slave market
1. Dred Scott 2. Roger B. Taney 3. Solomon Northrup
Many people urged America to fight the British to hold the northern boundary of Oregon at:
54° 40'
What event brought about the Missouri Compromise?
Alabama was admitted as a slave state
Under the terms of the Embargo Act passed by Congress
American ships could not transport goods to foreign ports
Blacks were encouraged to immigrate to what five areas?
Canada Haiti Mexico South America Western Frontier
Eventually, the Oregon Country was divided into two parcels. Who controlled the upper portion?
England
Who were five leaders of the abolition movement?
Frederick Douglass Sojourner Truth Benjamin Franklin William Lloyd Garrison Theodore Weld
The most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad sang "Go Down Moses" as the code message , it was time to go, was _______________.
Harriet Tubman
Why did John Brown attack the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry in Virginia?
He wanted a base from which to start a slave uprising.
The Compromise of 1850 was proposed by:
Henry Clay
The Missouri Compromise was introduced by:
Henry Clay
The group of Northerners that raised money and financed the trip to the Nebraska territory for antislavery settlers were the:
Immigrant Aide Society
What was the impact of the Underground Railroad?
It was estimated about 100,00 slaves escaped.
Uncle Tom's Cabin sold three hundred thousand copies by the end of 1852 and was banned in the South. How did world markets respond to the book? Select all correct answers.
It was translated into many languages. It was a best seller in Russia. It was a best seller in England. Plays and perfomances were made of the book.
In which one of the following countries did most of the manumitted blacks from the U.S. settle in?
Liberia
In which of the following states was a law passed limiting the slave workday?
Louisiana
Daniel Webster was an outspoken advocate of which group?
Nationalists
At The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, what was ceded to the United States?
New Mexico and California, but for 15 million dollars.
The conflict over the disputed territory between Texas and Mexico was because Texas claimed all the land to the ___________ and the Mexican government claimed all the land to the ____________ River.
Rio Grande; Nueces
Blacks from Europe were relocated in
Sierra Leone
How was the demand for labor on the "slave frontier" met?
Slaves were sold in the South by owners in the border states.
What statement best describes the position of most Northerners toward slavery?
Some states passed personal liberty laws for runaway slaves.
What best defines nullification?
Southern senators Calhoun and Hayne argued that Congress could not pass laws that favored one region of the country over another.
What best defines the Freeport Doctrine?
Stephen Douglas' position that slavery could be excluded from a territory if officials did not pass laws to protect it
In which of the following regions in California was gold discovered?
Sutter's Fort
What effect did Stowe's stories of little Eva, Uncle Tom, and Simon Legree have upon the slavery issue?
The stories became a wedge of division between the North and South over the issue of slavery.
What was the system of the "Underground Railroad?"
The system of escape routes and hiding places for runaway slaves.
Why were many Northerners upset with the Compromise of 1850?
They disliked the adoption of a strict fugitive slave law.
What was required of people who wanted to settle in Texas before the Mexican Revolution?
They had to declare they would become loyal Spanish subjects.
The Liberator was published by
William Lloyd Garrison
Slavery could never exist in any territory newly acquired by the United States from Mexico according to the:
Wilmot Proviso
The South's main concession to the North in the Compromise of 1850 was:
acceptance of popular sovereignty in the New Mexico and Utah territories
Which of the following was not a factor for widespread resistance and outright revolt by slaves?
acting sick&self-mutilation&escaping
What were the three components of the Missouri Compromise?
admit Missouri as a slave state\admit Maine as a free state/area north of 36° 30' in the Louisiana Purchase would be closed to slavery
The time period before the American Civil War is called:
antebellum
He used compelling facts to a0 his arguments.
buttress
Spain reluctantly agreed to a0 two of its provinces to the United States
cede
She refused to a0 her strongly held beliefs.
compromise
Complete the following: Abraham Lincoln's position in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 was that he claimed that a divided nation could not stand. His view was that the nation would _____.
eventually be either completely free or completely slave holding
Rice and indigo were the staple crops grown on many Carolina plantations. What two staple crops were grown on other Southern plantations?
hemp & sugar
was a fervent abolitionist who attacked proslavery families in Kansas.
john brown
Who led troops in California against Mexico?
john c fremont
Which of the following statements is true of Missouri?
many of the settlers were slaveowners from the South
The battle of the Alamo in Texas resulted in a:
massacre
Which of the following cities in Mexico was captured by American troops during the war?
mexico city
A consequence of the Nat Turner revolt was
panic and fear of black people in the Southern states.
The doctrine that allowed people living in the territories to decide the issue of slavery through their governmental bodies was called:
popular sovereignty
The one issue that divided the country more than any other was a0.
slavery
A nation's a0 allows it to exercise its political power and authority.
sovereignty
Places where runaways were fed, clothed, and hidden were often called
stations
Who did not agree with the Mexican War?
the Northeast
