Boot Camp Challenge 3

Abolish means to....

• separate
• get rid of
• make more of
• bring together

Which compromise allowed California to become a free state?

• Compromise of 1820

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• The Great Compromise

For the Compromise of 1850 to work, the North had to accept

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The Dred Scott Decision

• The Election of 1860

• Nullification

Why did the South need slaves, but the North didn't?

• Large plantations in the South needed slave labor to make a profit.

• Slave labor was needed to work in the mines in the South.

• Slaves ran the large steel mills and appliance factories in the South.

• The South didn't want slave labor.

• All answers are correct.

In what state did the first fighting over slavery take place?

• Georgia

• Virginia

• Kansas

• Pennsylvania

• New York

When you compromise:

• both sides lose

• both sides give up a little bit of what they want to come to an agreement

• 1 side wins and 1 side loses

• an agreement is NOT reached

The Missouri Compromise said:

• Missouri could join Union as slave state, Maine would join as free state

• States north of the Mason-Dixon line would be slave states, states south of the line would be free

• Missouri could join the Union as a free state, Maine would join as a slave state

• None of these

What is an abolitionist?

• People who believed in Sharecropping

• People who did not believe in the Black Codes

• People who believed in slavery

• People who did not believe in slavery

What did Eli Whitney invent?

• The cotton gin

• The railroad

• The telegraph

• The automobile

What is the Compromise of 1850?

• Nebraska became a slave state

• Kansas became a slave state

• Missouri wanted to be admitted to the Union as a slave state

• California admitted as a free state and South had the Fugitive Slave Law