Civil War Check in 1

Which of these did the Compromise of 1850 not include?

• The establishment of popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession area gained after the Mexican-American War

• The approval for Texas to join the United States

• California's admission to the United States as a Free State

• A strengthening of the Fugitive Slave law

According to the compromise of 1850, slavery was banned in Washington D.C.

• True

• False

According to the Compromise of 1850, slave trade was banned in Washington D.C.

• True

• False

Which of these best describes the Paternalist Ethos as a justification of slavery?

• Slave owners had a responsibility to provide for their inferior slaves, much like a parent does for a child.

• Slaves produced many offspring and thus were more valuable than free laborers.

• The lineage of slaves and their offsprings ran through the male line, not the female line, and thus were more stable.

• Slaves were more capable of running farms than most free whites, and thus they needed to be excluded from business ownership to prevent competition

Which of these did the Bleeding Kansas event most represent?

• That the balance of Free and Slave states in the Senate must be maintained to avoid a Civil War.

• That violence could successfully be avoided regarding slavery as long as strong government control was adopted.

• The failure of Popular Sovereignty to decide issues of slavery.

• The mistrust of and violence toward Catholics in the Protestant United States

Which of these was an effect of the Dred Scott decision?

• The Civil War immediately began following the decision.

• The federal Congress no longer could issue laws regarding slavery legality in the United States.

• Slavery immediately was banned across the entire United States.

• Slave revolts erupted across the entire South, leading to the Civil War

Which of these was an advantage of the Confederate States in the Civil War?

• Most of the war was fought in Southern Territory which they knew well.

• A much more extensive railroad network.

• A much larger army.

• A larger industrial apparatus producing weapons and food for soldiers

Which of these describes the 14th amendment?

• It outlawed slavery across the entire United States.

• Defined citizenship in the United States to include freed slaves.

• It gave all males, regardless of race, the right to vote.

• It established the graduated income tax.

Why was Lincoln's suspension of Habeas Corpus so controversial?

• It led to the first conflicts of the Civil War.

• It showed how Lincoln learned authoritarian even in peacetime.

• It violated the Constitutional right to a fair trial.

• It led to the first conflicts of the Civil War

Farming the land of someone else in exchange for a small piece of the land's output emerged as the dominant post-Civil War employment opportunity for freed slaves. What was this system called?

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Minstrel Showing

• Hydroponic Farming

• Sharecropping