His201f-final ch.12-15
Why did the slave states of the Upper South initially reject secession?
They did not have as great a stake in slavery as the states in the Lower South.
Which statement about those who attended can't meeting in revivals does the drawing support
They possessed a relatively low class status
Which statement describes the fate of most fugitive slaves once they were captured after the Fugitive Slave Act was enacted?
They were returned to their masters.
Lincoln justified the Emancipation Proclanation as
a military necessity.
Initially the Confederacy pursued King Cotton diplomacy, a strategy based on the belief that
Europe's need for cotton would lead them to support the Confederacy,
The majority of plantation slaves worked as
field hands.
How did the United States and Great Britain resolve competing claims on the Oregon territory in 1818?
The two nations decided on joint occupation.
Why did planters promote Christianity in the slave quarters?
They believed Christianiry would make slaves more obedient.
Which Restriction was placed on the 260,000 free black in the south by 1860
They could not participate in politics
How did slaves use the chaos and turmoil of the Civil War to whittle away at their bondage?
They forced concessions from their masters and mistresses.
Which statement describes the meaning of the term manifest destiny, coined by New York journalist John L. O'Sullivan in 1845?
Americans had the God-given right to expand their civilization across the continent.
According to Map 15.1: Secession., 1860-1861. which slave state seceded from the Union?
Arkansas
According to the map, which southern state grew both corn and cotton?
Arkansas
Which group attracted scrutiny due to their dress, eating habits, and recreational use of oplum during the California gold rush?
Chinese immigrants
Which statement describes the Supreme Courts ruling in its 1857 Dred Scott decision?
Dred Scot was not a citizen of the United States.
Why were Southerners angry when Zachary Taylor was elected president in 1849?
He urged Congress to admit California and New Mexico to the Union as free states.
The picture "Practical Amalgamation" portrays anxiety over which possible effect of emancipation?
Interracial marriage
This Know-Nothing cartoon reinforces the stereotypes of which groups?
Irish and German immigrants
Why did the "twenty-Negro law" enrage many white Southerners during the Civil War?
It exempted from military service one white man on every plantation with twenty or more slaves.
What was the result of Preston Brooks's caning of Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner in 1856?
It further inflamed sectional passions over the institution of slavery.
Which disadvantage did the South face when supplying the Confederate armies?
It lacked the resources available to the North.
Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), influence northern attitudes toward slavery?
It put forth a stirring moral indictment of slavery.
Who became the president of the new Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
Which region led the nation in manufacturing?
New England
Wormen who joined the Republican Party focused on which two issues?
Slavery and women's suffrage
The most common way enslaved people Reacted to their bondage was through
Small scale resistance
Why did Southerners believe they had a real chance of winning the Civil War?
Southern men believed they were physically tougher than Northern men.
Why did Congress initially refuse to annex Texas into the Union?
Texas would come into the Union as a slave state.
Why did American manufacturers, unlike their European counterparts, invent labor-saving methods and devices during the first half of the nineteenth century?
Workers were in limited supply and thus more expensive.
When plantation owners described the master-slave relationship in terms of "paternalism." they were attempting to justify the enslavement of black people by claiming that
a slave's labor and obedience were exchanged for the master's care and guidance.
Most Northerners viewed secession as
an attack on the rule of law.
Transcendentalists believed that
individuals should not conform to the materialistic world.
The job on the plantation most rarely held by an enslaved person was that of driver, the person who
made sure all enslaved people worked hard.
Many of the women who settled in Oregon found the land
primitive and tiring.
In his first inaugural address. Abraham Lincoln
reassured the South that he had no right to interfere with slavery where it existed.
The goal of the American Colonization Society was to
send freed slaves and other African Americans to Liberia.
To help facilitate the increase in U.S. agricultural productivity in the 1840s and 1850s, the federal government
sold the land for as little as $1.25 an acre.
Alexis de Tocqueville noted that the differences between the North and the South were largely attributable to
the South's practice of slavery.
Aside from leading to the legal destruction of slavery, the Civil War itself helped destroy slavery in practice because
the discipline necessary to keep slavery intact was disrupted.
Lincoln considered the biggest obstacle to the acceptance of emancipation in the Union to be
white fears that freed slaves would disrupt northern society.
