Life As A Slave/ Gov't Influence
What was the overseer on a slave plantation?
The person who was responsible for making sure all the enslaved people did the work expected of them.
Most states had laws, called slave codes, that explained…
The rights of slave owners.
The term antebellum means:
Pre-war or before a war (For example, before the American civil war)
The border states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri were deeply divided over the issues of:
Secession and Slavery
What made the Northern states the ideal locations for factories?
The rivers
True or false? In the years during and following the war, the federal government began to play a greater role in the lives of individual Americans.
True
What was the goal of the Missouri Compromise?
To keep the balance in congress between 11 free and 11 slave states.
Who did the Confederate draft law exempt from service?
Anyone who owned a plantation and held 20 or more enslaved people.
Nat Turner is famous for…
Leading a revolt in Virginia that killed more than 60 people, including his owner and family.
True or False: The North Had A Agricultural Economy.
False
Name 3 ways enslaved African Americans responded to bondage.
Slacking off, refusing to work, running away, revolting (fighting back), looking to God for hope
True or false? Many Northern industrialists made money off of the civil war.
True
What is sectionalism?
The strong loyalty to one region.
True or False: General Lee’s surrender ended the Civil War.
False
As the expansion of cotton plantations grew, what became more important to the south's economy?
Slavery
What was family life like for enslaved people in the United States?
Enslaved people had to ask their masters for permission to marry. However, there was a strong sense of community among enslaved people.
What was the result of the Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court decision?
Congress could not restrict the spread of slavery, so the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
What Is Popular Sovereignty?
The idea that each new territory or state should decide whether slavery was allowed
Which was the first state to secede from the United States?
South Carolina
What was the purpose of The Compromise of 1850?
What did enslaved African Americans have in common with free African Americans in pre civil war America?
They developed and practiced religious traditions.
What was “Juneteenth”?
The period when the last of the Confederate troops surrendered.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
A Union strategy to cut off the Confederacy from commerce and supplies.
What would have happened if Maryland had decided to leave the Union?
The nation's capital would be in confederate territory.
What were the “total war” tactics from the final years of the Civil War?
Union armies systematically destroyed everything in their paths in the South.