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Jeopardy Compromise of 1850 North and South North or South Reformers Slavery Potpourri 100 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 500

Contrast the weather of the North and South

North: Colder winters and shorter summers South: mild weather, year round growing season along the coastal plains A 100

How did the Industrial Revolution change the way goods were produced in the US?

Handmade to machine-made

Why did immigrants move to the North instead of the South?

There were more jobs in factories.

Why were their few factories in the South?

Southerners bought slaves and land instead.

How did goods in the South get moved around?

Through the use of rivers A 500

Who had the greater population? B 100

North B 100

Who had more railroad track? B 200

North B 200

Which side had more deaths during the Civil War? B 300

The North B 300

Had high death toll in prisoner of war camps? B 400

Both. B 400

Which side allowed African-Americans to fight? B 500

Both B 500

Why did southerners not want California to enter the Union as a free state?

It would upset the balance of free v slave states.

Who was one group the Fugitive Slave Act was unfair for and why?

Slaves- they couldn’t testify in court People who helped runaways because they could be fined. C 200

What were the three main parts of the Compromise of 1850?

No more slave trade in Washington D.C. CA = free state. Mexican Cession is organized and people will decide if its open to slavery by voting. No more slave trade in Washington D.C. Fugitive Slave Law C 300

This book was inspired by the Fugitive Slave Law. C 400

Uncle Tom’s Cabin C 400

What slave state was added before California?

Texas C 500

Who led antislavery supporters to kill proslavery settlers in Kansas?

John Brown D 100

Why was Frederick Douglass not the typical slave?

He was literate/educated

Who was an educational reformer who led the common-school movement?

Horace Mann D 300

This movement helped inspire the women’s rights movement…

Abolitionist movement D 400

What happened when John Brown went to start a rebellion at Harper’s Ferry?

The raid failed and he was captured and executed.

Slave owners treated their slaves like they would treat what?

Property (and the courts supported that opinion)

How did slaves pass down their culture?

Told folktales with characters and morals, sung spirituals, mixed traditional African and Christian traditions. E 200

What often separated slaves and was greatly feared?

auction E 300

What did the Supreme Court rule in Dred Scott v What did the Supreme Court rule in Dred Scott v. Sandford (3 main things)? E 400

Slavers were not citizens and couldn’t sue in court. Slaves were property so they couldn’t be taken from owners. The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. E 400

These sisters were the daughter of a large plantation owner but spoke out about slavery.

Sarah and Angelica Grimke

What was the Republican Party most concerned with stopping? F 100

The spread of slavery west.

What did Lincoln promise to do upon his election? F 200

Take no steps to limit slavery in the south. F 200

What did the Election of 1860 show about the South?

They did not have much political power in national politics (they split their vote between to democratic candidates) F 300

What did John Brown’s attempted raid on Harper’s Ferry affect the US?

It increased tensions between the North and South. He became a martyr for abolitionists and a terrorist to slaver owners. F 400

What did transcendentalists believe? F 500

People should trust themselves instead of other people, and through their intuition could rise above the material things in life to reach true understanding. F 500

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Click on screen to continue This abolitionist became advisor to President Lincoln and toured Europe to speak out against slavery. Click on screen to continue

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