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Servidio SS Chap 15
Servidio Review for Chapter 15 MC/CR Test
Question | Answer |
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What was the purpose of the slave codes? | To prevent the slaves from running away |
What were four slave code laws? | Slaves could not learn to read and write, could not own a gun, gather in groups of three or more, or leave the plantation without written permission from the slave owner |
How did slaves keep their spirits up? | They sang songs, told folk stories, became Catholics, and tried to stay with their extended families |
Define abolitionist | A person who wanted to abolish, get rid of, slavery |
Identify one famous abolitionist? | Harriet Tubman |
Who was the Conductor of the Underground Railroad? | Harriet Tubman |
What was the Underground Railroad? | A set of hidden spots and homes to help slaves escape to the North |
Who was Nate Turner? | Abolitionists who wanted to give guns to slave to fight for their freedom |
Who was John Brown? | Abolitionists who wanted to give guns to slave to fight for their freedom |
Who was Henry “The Box” Brown? | A former slave turned abolitionist who sent himself in a crate to the North for freedom |
Define discrimination | The act of treating someone differently because they are different from you |
Who was Eli Whitney? | An inventor of interchangeable parts and the cotton gin |
Who was Abraham Lincoln? | He is the 16th President of the United States |
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe? | She was an abolitionist who wrote the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” |
Who was William Lloyd Garrison? | He was an abolitionist who published the “Liberator” |
Who was Fredrick Douglas? | He was an abolitionist who published the “North Star” |
Define sectionalism | The pride in your own state or region |
Define nationalism | The pride and devotion to your whole country |
Define secession | To leave the Union or country and establish your own |
Explain the Missouri Compromise | Maine entered the Union as a Free State and Missouri as a Slave State |
What is a Free State? | A state that does not allow slavery in it |
What is a Slave State? | A state that does allow slavery in it |
Explain the Wilmot Proviso | A law that attempted to prevent the spread of slavery in the West |
Explain the Free Soil Party | A political party that wanted to end slavery in the West |
Explain the five parts of the Compromise of 1850 | Ended the slave trade, California enters as a free state, a strict Fugitive Slave Law is created, and use of popular sovereignty in the west and settled a border dispute |
Define popular sovereignty | The citizens vote on whether they want slavery in their state |
Explain the Fugitive Slave Law | A law that stated that anyone who sees a slave attempting to escape must capture them or be fined or jailed |
Explain Uncle Tom’s Cabin | A novel that showed the evils of slavery about one slave asked to beat another slave to follow directions |
Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act | An act that stated that each state should vote whether they want slavery in their state or not |
Explain John Brown’s Raid | John Brown raided a gun warehouse to give guns to slave to revolt |
Explain the Dred Scott Case | Dred Scott was a slave whose owner died and wanted his freedom The court stated that Dred Scott was a slave no matter what a slaves are property and slavery can exist anywhere |
Explain the results of Lincoln’s election | Lincoln won the Election of 1860 by all the northern states voting for him and then the southern states seceded |
Define secede | To leave the Union |
Why is Fort Sumter important? | It was the start of the Civil War |
Describe the main reason why the North is fighting in the Civil War | To preserve the Union |
Describe the main reason why the South is fighting in the Civil War | To have a say in government |