Unit 2 Exam Review

Which industry was strongest in the Northeast?

• ranching

• manufacturing

• farming

• mining

Read the statement from US Senator James Henry Hammond in 1858.

…No, you dare not to make war on cotton. No power on Earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king.

What does this quote mean when talking about the growth of the plantation system and slavery?

• England owned many southern plantations, so it agreed to fight to defend plantations and slavery.

• The US military owned most southern plantations and agreed to defend them and slavery.

• The entire US economy depended on cotton, so plantations and slavery could grow.

• The South controlled most of the government and wanted plantations and slavery to grow.

Why was cotton significant to the economies of the South and the United States as a whole?

• The demand for fertilizer good enough to grow cotton drove the Industrial Revolution in the United States.

• The profits from exporting cotton were put back into the American economy.

• The tariffs on cotton imported through ports were a source of federal income.

• The cotton produced tended to stay in America, making the United States less dependent on trade.

Which best summarizes the attitude of many southern Whites regarding slave labor?

• Many southern Whites believed that slavery should be extended to Asians.

• Many southern Whites thought that slavery was a positive institution that benefitted society.

• Many southern Whites thought that slavery was immoral and should be stopped.

• Many southern Whites thought that slavery should be abolished by the next generation.

Why did southern states pass slave codes banning slaves from meeting in large groups?

• Southerners thought that large groups of slaves would form their own economy.

• Southerners feared that slaves would form unions to demand higher wages.

• Southerners feared that slaves would use the meetings to plan rebellions.

• Southerners thought that gathering in large groups violated biblical teaching.

Which is an accurate comparison of the North and South by 1850?

• Industry became increasingly important to the economy of the North, while the South relied on agriculture.

• Slave labor was gradually becoming less important in the South but more important in the North.

• The economies of the North and South both relied on industry to process many goods for the country.

• Industry became increasingly important to the economy of the South, while the North relied on agriculture.

Who was a cofounder of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator?

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Lysander Spooner

• John C. Calhoun

Which leader opposed the Compromise of 1850 and argued that it could lead to southern secession from the union?

• Henry Clay

• John C. Calhoun

• Stephen A. Douglas

• Daniel Webster

Which were major parts of the Compromise of 1850?

(Select all that apply.)

• The slave trade was abolished in Washington, DC.

• California joined the Union as a free state.

• Slavery was banned in New Mexico and Utah.

• A stronger fugitive slave law was passed.

• Missouri entered the Union as a slave state.

How did Vermont react to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

• It threatened to secede from the Union unless Congress repealed the act.

• It passed a law legalizing the practice of slavery throughout the state.

• Its state legislature met and passed its own Fugitive Slave Act.

• It passed the Habeas Corpus Law, forcing officials to help fugitives.