Slavery and the Civil War

Which statement best explains how economic developments in the North contributed to the growing importance of slavery in the South?

• Increased demand for wage laborers in the North led to a migration of non-slave farmworkers from the South.

• Industrialization in the North increased demand for agricultural products grown by slaves on Southern plantations

• Improvements in productivity in the North reduced prices for manufactured goods, which allowed slave owners to spend more money on slaves.

• The gradual abolition of slavery in the North increased the supply of slaves, which drove down prices that Southern slave owners had to pay to buy new slaves.

How was the work of field slaves and house slaves similar?

• Both worked under a strict overseer.

• Both worked as carpenters.

• Both worked long hours at many tasks.

• Both worked as gardners

Which would most likely cause a free black person to be arrested in the antebellum North?

• eating at a whites-only restaurant

• applying for a job as a schoolteacher

• publishing a journal for black people

• founding a Christian church

Unlike their plantation owners, enslaved persons often adopted religious practices that:

• rejected sermons and hyms

• stressed obedience and loyalty

• combined both African and American rituals

• ignored teachings of the Christian Bible

In the early 1800s, who was most likely to oppose protective tariffs?

• Southern plantation owners who purchased European luxury items.

• Railroad owners who profited from shipping goods to and from port cities.

• Independent farmers who sold surplus agricultural products.

• Norther factory owners who competed with each other for sales.

The spread of railroads in the United States during the first half of the 1800s was most closely connected to:

• territorial expansion

• settlement of the frontier

• the construction of factories

• a rapid increase in immigration

Supporter of popular sovereignty argued that:

• enslaved persons were private property who belonged to their owners.

• individuals are solely responsible for their own actions.

• the president should be selected by a single national election.

• residents of individual states should decide for themselves whether or not to permit slavery.

Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted most directly in:

• rapid migration of settlers into Kansas and Nebraska.

• the maintenance of the balance of power in the Senate.

• the admission of Kansas and Nebraska as free states.

• reinforcement of the terms of the Missouri Compromise.

Many Southern officials in the early 1800s supported maintaining a balance between the number of free states and the number of slave states in the Union. These officials supported maintaining the balance in order to:

• keep tariff rates from becoming too low.

• prevent congressional restrictions on slavery.

• prevent slaves from escaping to free states?

• promote industrialization in all regions of the country.

At the beginning of the Civil War, the Confederacy was widely considered to have had which advantage?

• a larger army

• better officers

• more weapons

• a powerful navy