Slavery

What was the effect of the cotton gin on slavery in the South?

• It reduced the need for slaves on plantations.
• It increased the demand for slaves to produce more cotton.
• It helped improve the slaves' work conditions.
• It had no significant effect on slaves or slavery.

What was the economy of the South based on?

• Agriculture
• Mining
• Industry
• Warfare

What were slaves legally considered?

• People
• Property
• Citizens
• Children

Why was slavery generally supported by southerners?

• All southerners owned slaves
• They knew someday they would be slaveowners
• Slavery was an important part of their economy
• They would be executed for disagreeing

How were the north and south different?

• The north was against slavery and the south was for it
• The north was for slavery and the south was against it
• The south was racist and the north was not
• The north was racist and the south was not

The Compromise of 1850...

• allowed California to enter as a free state.
• ended the Fugitive Slave law.
• gave all of the land taken from Mexico to Texas.
• banned slaver in Washington D.C.

An abolitionist supported which of the following causes?

• outlawing alcohol
• ending slavery
• limiting slavery to southern states
• ending women's suffrage

In the 1800's, which of the following required Northerners to help return runaway slaves?

• Dred Scott Decision
• Compromise of 1820
• Fugitive Slave Law
• Compromise of 1850

How did the concept of popular sovereignty decide the future of slavery in a territory?

• Voters in neighboring states would decide the slavery issue
• Congress would decide the issue of slavery for the state
• A territory's voters would choose to be a slave or free state
• The presiident would decide if a territory were to be slave or free.

California being admitted as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Law are both part of

• The Missouri Compromise of 1820

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Nullification Act