Social Studies Alive - Ch 20

Compared with the North, the South had more

• cities.
• factories.
• plantations. 
• railroads.

Why were workers in the North called “free labor”?

• They worked for no money.
• They came from other countries.
• They usually did not have families.
• They could choose their own jobs.

What was the most important crop in the South by the mid-1800s?

• corn
• cotton
• rice
• tobacco

What was a goal of the Missouri Compromise?

• returning fugitive slaves
• preventing slavery in the cities
• keeping an equal number of slave states and free states 
• letting each territory decide whether to allow slavery

People like Frederick Douglas who spoke out against slavery were called

• abolitionists. 
• slave owners.
• enslaved African Americans.
• conductors on the Underground Railroad.

Which statement is true of the Compromise of 1850?

• Abraham Lincoln proposed the new law.
• Most Americans were happy with the results.
• Officials no longer had to return fugitive slaves.
• . California was admitted to the Union as a free state.

Kansas was called “Bleeding Kansas” in the 1850s because of

• violent fights about slavery. 
• attacks by American Indians.
• deadly diseases among settlers.
• injuries from putting up fences.

Which group was most angry about the election of Abraham Lincoln?

• enslaved Africans
• Southern slave owners 
• Northern factory owners
•  German and Irish immigrants

. Southerners did not want Abraham Lincoln to be president because he

• commanded his armies to attack Fort Sumter.
• didn't buy products or wear clothes made of cotton.
• refused to support the Underground Railroad.
• was against slavery spreading to new territories.

The Fugitive Slave Law stated that

• abolitionists can't support the Underground Railroad.
• officials in the North would help return runaway slaves. 
• slaves are considered free if they escape to a free state.
• the Compromise of 1850 no longer matters to the states.