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4th Quarter Assesmen
US History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Describe the conditions in the middle passage. | A long, hard, and dangerous journey where slaves were packed. Many diseases and deaths. |
| What did the Cotton Gin do? | Deseed cotton faster, which brought more profit for cotton production. more slaves were needed (was the opposite of what they thought would happen) |
| What was the purpose of the fugitive slave act of 1850? | To return runaway slaves back to their masters. Made penalties for aiding a runaway slave. |
| What was the outcome of the Dred Scott Case? | The slaves had no rights and could not sue in federal court. Congress could not stop slavery in the new territories. (greater division between north and south) |
| What was the outcome of Dred Scott Case tell you about white attitudes towards african americans? | Slaves were property and had no rights. |
| Missouri Compromise of 1820. | There is a conflict in the U.S. of admitting new states: free or slave. They came up with an agreement with a dividing line. Everything north was free and everything south was slave. The goal was to balance out the states. |
| What was the northern economy based on? | textiles and factories |
| What was the southern economy based on? | agriculture. making cotton, rice, sugar, and tobacco. |
| Why were southerners upset by taxation/tariffs? | They purchased a lot of goods from England and would make them very expensive |
| What was the role of women in the Civil War? | helped with family farms. Became nurses for the wounded |
| What was the Anaconda Plan? | a blockade of southern ports to create a strangling of the south for goods. Thus making them surrender due to lack of resources. |
| What was the battle of Gettysburg's Importance? | was the turning point in the war for the east. Lee's forces will be on the defensive. |
| What was the battle of Vicksburg's Importance? | split confederacy in two. Ulysses S. Grant proved to have power. Was important to gaining control of Mississippi River region. Conf. surrendered. |
| What was the importance of the Surrender at Appomattox? | Sheratan blocks the road a Appomattox Court House. Lee surrenders to Grant due to being out numbered and surrounded |
| What was the goal behind Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation? | to end slavery in the south |
| What did the 13th amendment state? | to abolish slavery |
| What did the 14th amendment state? | to declare that all people are the equal |
| What did the 15th amendment state? | to allow all males to vote regardless of their race or color (no women) |
| Why was Andrew Johnson impeached? | because he violated the tenure of office act by firing secretary of war |
| What was the attitude of white southerners towards Federal soliders/troops occupying the south? | they resented the north from occupying the south |
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