Making of America, Black Americans

Which 2 of these statements are correct about the economic differences between the North and South?

• The nature of the land and work in the North was more suited to keeping a workforce of enslaved people.

• Businessmen in the North were against slavery as they believed it gave the South an unfair advantage

• The majority of businessmen in the North did not have slaves because they were abolitionists

• The nature of the land and work in the South was more suited to keeping a workforce of enslaved people.

After the formation of the United States, which territory did slavery first expand into?

• The Northwest Territory

• The Southwest Territory

• The Louisiana Territory

• The Western Territories

When the Constitution of the United States was drawn up, the number of Representatives in Congress a State was entitled to depended on its population. How much was it agreed that slaves were worth, when calculating this population?

• Two-thirds of a person.

• Three-quarters of a person

• Three-fifths of a person

• Half a person

What was the 'Territorial Compromise' of 1780?

• This allowed slavery to spread into every new territory that the USA expanded into after 1780.

• This banned slavery in all new territories after 1780.

• This banned slavery in the Northwest Territory after 1780, but allowed slavery in the Southwest Territory.

• This allowed slavery in the Northwest Territory after 1780, but banned slavery in the Southwest Territory.

Which 2 of these States were Slave owning States by 1800?

• Georgia

• Rhode Island

• Connecticut

• Virginia

Which 3 statements are incorrect with regards to the 'Cotton Gin'?

• The Cotton Gin sped up the cleaning of cotton by around 50 times meaning cotton could be processed faster.

• The cotton gin helped plantation owners grow more cotton as it helped slaves to harvest more cotton from the plants

• The cotton gin made life harder for slaves because now they were needed to pick cotton more quickly.

• The cotton gin made life easier for slaves because it reduced the amount of hard work they needed to do.

• The cotton gin increased slavery, as a more seed filled variety of cotton could be grown, which grew in hot areas that cotton had not grown well previously.

Which of the following 2 States were new slave states formed from the Southwest Territory?

• Georgia

• Missouri

• Alabama

• Mississippi

• Illinois

What is the correct date of the 'Missouri Compromise'?

• 1803

• 1820

• 1830

• 1862

Which 3 statements are correct as regards the 'Missouri Compromise'?

• The free state of Maine joined the USA in 1820, to balance out the new slave state of Missouri.

• Slavery was to be allowed in the whole of the Louisiana Purchase

• Slavery was to be allowed in the the new state of Missouri in 1821, and in all of the Louisiana purchase south of its southern border.

• Slavery was not allowed in any of the Louisiana Purchase.

• Any new states created in the future, to the north and northwest of Missouri would not be allowed to have slavery

Who was Charles Deslondes?

• He was a freed slave who escaped to the North in 1811 and who became an abolitionist

• He was an educated slave who escaped in 1811 and wrote about his experiences

• He was a white abolitionist who lost his life in the South campaigning against slavery in 1811

• He was a slave who after a failed major revolt in the south in 1811, had his hands cut off, was shot and also set alight