Antebellum America Review

What compromise was created by Henry Clay during the 1820s?

• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Comrpomise of 1850
• Tariff Compromise
• Missouri Compromise

The Fugitive Slave was a part of what Compromise?

• The Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• Tariff Compromise

Which best explains the impact the cotton gin had on slavery?

• Slavery decreased because this machine increased production.
• Slavery increased because more slaves were needed to pick cotton.
• Slavery increased because this invention helped cotton farmers, but indigo, rice, and tobacco became major crops.
• Slavery decreased because people started to realize that they could industrialize and not use manual labor.

Under Manifest Destiny it is the duty of the US to spread

• life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
• social, political and economic views
• diseases, pollution and crime

When citizens make a decision by direct vote

• Election
• Popular Sovereignty
• Electoral College
• Popular Vote

During colonial times agriculture was the basis of ___________ in most of the Southern states.

The International slave trade was outlawed in 1808, but the slave population continued to grow in antebellum South because of ___________.

Slaves worked

• 8am-5pm

• Noon to midnight

• Dawn to Dusk

• 24/7

Slaves were huge _____________ investments for their owners.

• labor

• financial

• property

• risky

Plantations were self-sustaining communities

• true

• false