Unit 4, Lessons 3-5

Which of the following statements does NOT describe the domestic slave trade in the United States?

• More than 1 million people were bought, sold, and relocated throughout the South.

• The buying and selling of enslaved people involved insurance, banking, and transportation businesses.

• The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 expanded the rights of enslavers, supporting the domestic trade.

• When the United States banned the importation of enslaved people, the domestic slave trade ended.

What are two reasons the cotton industry grew in the 19th century?

• increased demand for cotton from Britain and France

• ships were specially built to fit cotton bales

• merchants from Asia preferred cotton to silk

• mass production of cloth at textile mills in the North

• inventors discovered thousands of uses for cotton

Religion was a way for enslaved African Americans to show resistance to their enslavement by keeping African traditions and culture alive in their communities.

• True

• False

Which of the following summarizes what the Treaty of Greenville of 1795 required Native Americans to do?

• move to designated lands west of the Mississippi

• cede most of their land to the United States

• resettle in military forts located throughout the Northwest Territory

• discontinue alliances made with other Native American groups

How did Shawnee leaders Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh respond to an increase in White settlement on Native American lands?

• Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh worked to unite Native Americans in the Northwest.

• Tecumseh built a military and political confederacy.

• Tenskwatawa urged Native Americans to adopt White customs.

• Tecumseh asked Indiana Territory governor William Henry Harrison to pay Native Americans for their lands.

President Jackson ignored the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Worcester v. Georgia.

• True

• False

Which of the following explains how the federal government was able to grant land west of the Mississippi to Native American groups that agreed to move west?

• passage of the Federal Act

• passage of the Native American Act

• passage of the Settlers Act

• passage of the Indian Removal Act

Which of the following statements best describes the Civil War Amendments?

• They were proposed and ratified before the Civil War.

• They guaranteed voting rights for all African American men and women.

• They dramatically changed the way millions of people lived.

• They completely ended unfair treatment of African Americans.

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution protected voting rights for African American men and women.

• True

• False

After Reconstruction, why did Southern leaders pass laws requiring literacy tests and poll taxes?

• to keep African Americans from owning land

• to end unfair treatment of African Americans

• to keep African Americans from voting

• to help African Americans attend school