Unit 6: Compromise TEST

What impact did Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin have on the slave population in South Carolina?

• The slave population decreased as white workers opened factories that replaced slave jobs.

• The slave population increased as more cotton was grown and processed.

• The slave population decreased as slave-owners needed fewer slaves to work the machines.

• The slave population remained the same as slave owners did not need more slaves.

What major event was the “final straw” for the South before the Civil War began?

• Nullification Crisis

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Election of 1860

The idea that states could decide for themselves if they would be a free state or a slave state was known as…

• Popular sovereignty

• Nullification

• Manifest destiny

Throughout this time period the economy in the south was dependent upon which of these?

• Banks

• Colleges

• Factories

• Plantations

Abolitionists were people who wanted to…

• Protect the institution of slavery

• End the institution of slavery

• Make sure the treatment of slaves was improved

• Restrict slavery to southern states.

Which compromise prohibited slavery north of the 36’30 latitude line and added Maine as a free state?

• The 3/5 Compromise

• The Connecticut Compromise

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850

How did white owners respond to the Denmark Vesey plot?

• They reduced the work hours for slaves in order to make sure they wouldn’t revolt.

• They freed some of their slaves in order to reduce the slave population.

• They placed tighter legal restraints on slaves and often resorted to violence to control them.

• They worked with abolitionist groups to reach a compromise on the expansion of slavery.

What was the overall reason for the rise in tensions between the North and the South in the years before the Civil War?

• The two regions had fundamentally different social and economic systems.

• The two regions competed to sell the same goods to the same foreign countries.

• The two regions disagreed on boundaries for new western territories.

People who consider themselves to be abolitionists were concerned with what issue?

• The end of slavery

• Voting rights for women

• Free public education

This chart compares various abolitionists.  Based on this chart how were the methods of Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison similar?

• They both used violence to protest slavery.

• They both organized slave rebellions.

• They both published anti-slavery newspapers.

• They both wrote novels that raised awareness about slavery.