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10C Civil War 3
Slavery
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When were the first African slaves brought to America? | Jamestown, Virginia, around the year 1619 |
| How did the Northwest Ordinance treat slavery? | Under the Articles of Confederation, the Northwest Ordinance provided a plan for adding new states AND said that slavery would not be allowed in any of these new states (1787) |
| What did the Quakers think about slavery? | The Quakers were among the first American abolitionists; they believed that all men were truly equal and slavery was wrong. |
| Was slavery addressed in the Declaration of Independence? | Early drafts of the Declaration noted slavery as one of the grievances against England. But that paragraph was deleted from the final version, showing that a serious moral and ethical struggle was taking place in 1776. |
| How did the U.S. Constitution address slavery? | The constitution does not use the word "slave." It did provide that the AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE would end in 1808. |
| What was the 3/5 compromise? | The U.S. Constitution counted slaves as 3/5 of a person FOR THE PURPOSE OF CALCULATING POPULATION TO DETERMINE REPRESENTATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. |
| Why did our government compromise so many times on the issue of slavery? | The plantation economy in the south was absolutely dependent on slave labor; it's likely that those who opposed slavery wanted to avoid splitting the country in half. Those who opposed slavery hoped that it would die out on its own over time. |
| Why was the slavery issue so prominent during the 1800s? | The USA was growing and adding new states; as each new state was added the balance of slave and free states changed. |
| What was the Missouri Compromise? | Missouri was added as a slave state and Maine as a free state; it also prohibited slavery north of the 36/30 parallel. (1820) |
| How did the Compromise of 1850 address slavery? | California was added as a free state; the Fugitive Slave Law was strengthened; and, the slave trade ended in Washington, D.C. |
| How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 address slavery? | This law repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820. It adopted popular sovereignty (local people vote) to decide the issue of slavery. |
| Unit 10C Civil War 3 Slavery | |
| Who was the sponsor of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | Stephen Douglas of Illinois, who would later run for president against Abraham Lincoln. |
| How did people respond to the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | People from Missouri (slave state) crossed the border and voted in Kansas' elections; Kansas became a slave state. |
| What was "Bleeding Kansas?" | Pro-slavery and Anti-slavery settlers fought violently following the Kansas-Nebraska Act. |
| What was Abraham Lincoln's position on slavery? | He believed that slavery should not be allowed to spread; he was not an abolitionist at the beginning of his presidency. |
| How did Southerners interpret Lincoln's election as president in 1860? | Southern slave-holders inferred from Lincoln's election that the federal government would abolish slavery. |
| What was the 13th amendment? | The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the USA at the end of the Civil War (1865). |
| What was the Emancipation Proclamation? | Lincoln's order in 1863: all slaves in rebellious states would be free. It had no effect on slaves in border states. |
| Why didn't Lincoln attempt to abolish slavery at the beginning of the Civil War? | Four Border States were fighting with Lincoln to preserve the Union; Lincoln didn't want to risk losing their support. |
| What were the Border States? | Border States were slave-holding states that fought with the north (Lincoln) during the Civil War: Missouri, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland. (Later, West Virginia too) |
| Who was Dred Scott? | He was a slave who sued for his freedom in a lawsuit called "Dred Scott v. Sandford." |
| Why did Dred Scott believe he should be free? | Scott was a Missouri slave who had lived as a free man in Illinois. He claimed that once a free man, he could not be returned to slavery in Missouri. |
| How did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott case? | The Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was subject to the laws of Missouri: he was still a slave. The Court explained its decision as an example of states' rights. |
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