Antebellum Slavery
What is unique about antebellum slavery?
Slavery existing before the American Civil War
What does the term ‘manifest destiny’ mean?
Americans were told by God to expand across the continent.
The compromise of 1850 was not seen truly as a COMPROMISE, but more of a truce because both sides ___________ something and both sides ____________ something.
Won; Lost
True or False:
The Republican Party was originally a third party.
True
Texas was finally admitted to the United States as what kind of a state? (Free or Slave?)
A Slave State
Because of the expansion of the growth of _________ in the southern states, the south’s economy became the 4th largest in the world.
Cotton
Because of Manifest Destiny, America soon claimed what territory? (Use its original name)
Tejas
The _______________ was a legal document that attempted to block the expansion of slavery in the territories from TX to CA.
Wilmot Proviso
What are the main beliefs of the Republican Party?
If you want slaves, have slaves. If you don’t want slaves, don’t have slaves.
What was the main reason what America did not conquer the entirety of Mexico in the Mexican-American War?
We did not want the Mexicans
In the south, most white Americans did NOT own slaves. What percentage of white southerners DID own slaves?
25%
The Mexican-American War was a dispute over what natural boundary.
The Rio Grande River
What is the name of the miniature civil war that occurred in the Kansas-Nebraska territory?
Bleeding Kansas
What well known figure would soon run for president (and win) as a Republican?
Abraham Lincoln
What was the final decision of the Dred Scott v Sandford Supreme Court case?
Identified slaves as property and NOT citizens of America so they can’t sue.
When sold at an auction, slaves were placed into 6 price categories. What are they?
1. Gender
2. Age
3. Height
4. Weight
5. Skin Color
6. Gum Color
What is the name of the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Why did John Brown’s raid spark fear of northerners in the South?
Brown (murder) = abolitionist (all murderers) = Republicans (murderers)= whole North (murderers)
Where did the majority of the Republican Party live? Why?
Northern States; it was unsafe for them to live in the South
Slaves were viewed as property and treated as property, some owners were more violent than others with their property. Provide THREE examples of punishments.
- most common punishment was 50-75 lashes on back
- red pepper and brine often rubbed into the exposed flesh
- branding on face and forehead
- cutting ears off
- slitting nose
- cutting hamstrings
- severing feet of runaways
- pulling out teeth
While anti-slavery movements grew in the North, white southerners came up with FOUR different reasons to maintain their slaves. What are they IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.
1. Thomas Jefferson, the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence, had slaves.
2. Slave owners could not afford to lose all the money invested in slaves.
3. Southerners said the slaves needed masters to take care of them.
4. Even the Hebrews had slaves.
In order to with the election of 1844, James Polk had FIVE goals to achieve. Name THREE of them.
1. Lower tariff on textiles
2. Take money out of state banks and put it into national banks
3. Draw top boundary line if U.S.
4. Get Oregon for America
5. Purchase California for America
Because if Abraham Lincoln’s election, many states seceded. What is the line of secession?
1. South Carolina
2. Alabama
3. Mississippi
4. Florida
5. Georgia
6. Louisiana
7. Texas
Because of which catastrophic event was the Republican Party created?
Bleeding Kansas
Why did the Dred Scott v Sandford decision prevent the government from making slavery illegal?
Slaves were identified as property. It is illegal for the government to take property away from its citizens without compensation.