Slavery and the Civil War

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.

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 event is often considered to be the final decisive event of the Civil War?

• Lincoln's announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation

• Sherman's march across Georgia

• Meade's victory at Gettysburg

• Lee and grant's meeting at Appomattox Court House

Which statement best explains how the Civil War affected both the North and the South?

• Productivity diminished in both regions.

• Both sides faced a heavy amount of debt.

• Both sides lost a large number of young men

• Foreign trade with both regions declined sharply.

Read the quotation below:

"We here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain...and that government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

--Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1963

The quotation refers to which of President Lincoln's objectives for fighting the Civil War?

• preserving the union

• ending slavery

• enforcing the laws

• defeating the Confederacy

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.

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.

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

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