9.1 TEKS Check

What condition did both slaves and free blacks experience during the Antebellum period?

• Both groups were allowed to testify in court

• Both groups were able to vote in elections

• Both groups were forced to pay taxes

• Both groups were denied citizenship rights

Answer explanation

During the Antebellum (before the Civil War) period, both enslaved and free blacks were denied citizenship due to Dred Scott v. Sandford.

Which of these correctly describes an effect of the Compromise of 1850 on escaped slaves and freedmen?

• Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave Law

• Unlike freedmen, slaves were welcome in the goldmines of California

• Members of both groups could be sold in Washington, D.C. slave markets

• Unlike escaped slaves, freedmen could vote in the territories of the Mexican Cession

Answer explanation

The Compromise of 1850 had a significant effect on escaped slaves and freedmen by making it illegal to assist them in their escape. It also allowed for the return of escaped slaves to their owners in the South, and it strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed for the capture and return of escaped slaves. It futher banned the sale of slaves in Washington, D.C.

What was one effect of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?

• The Republican party lost influence in the federal legislature

• The Missouri Compromise was deemed unconstitutional by federal courts

• Tensions among the populations of northern and southern states increased

• Immigrants were forced to relocate from eastern cities to western territories

Answer explanation

The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 had a number of effects, but one of the most significant was that it made it much easier for slave owners to reclaim their escaped slaves. The law allowed slave owners to pursue their escaped slaves into free states and territories, angering Northerners who had banned slavery in their states.

Which statement best explains the changes shown in this table?

• Slaves from the Upper South were moved to the Lower South to work on cotton plantations

• The Upper South expereinced an agricultural labor shortage in the Antebellum period

• Slaves were transferred from the Lower South to the Upper South to work in newly built factories.

• The Lower South lost population as settlers migrated west to establish new plantations

Answer explanation

Delaware and Maryland, the Upper South, were not geographically capable of growing cotton, so many slaves were sold for profit to the Lower South.

These data could be used to support which conclusion?

• Gulf Coast states had to rely on steamboats to transport goods

• States in the lower south had more land devoted to plantations

• Border states had to import needed raw materials

• States in the Upper South were heavily industrialized

Which outcome best completes the diagram?

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American Revolution

Popular Sovereignty

Manifest Destiny

Civil War

Which statement describes a factor that MOST contributed to the population difference shown on the table?

• The South had an economy that relied on wage labor

• The South had an economy that relied on cotton

• The South had a variety of natural resources

• The South had an abundance of large cities

The headlines refer to which Supreme Court case?

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

Which statement describes BOTH the Free Soil Party AND the Republican party in the mid-1800s?

• They supported actions to stop escaped slaves from entering the NOrth

• They supported enacting safety regulations to protect factory workers

• They were against the expansion of slavery into western territories

• They were against the establishment of American Indian reservations

Answer explanation

Both the Free Soil Party and the Republican Party in the mid-1800s were anti-slavery political parties that sought to limit the spread of slavery in the United States.

Which statement explains an effect of the Missouri Compromise?

• The compromise maintained the balance between free and slave states

• The compromise allowed part of the number of slaves to be counted towards representation in Congress

• The compromise enabled southerners to pursue escaped slaves in the North

• The compromise ended the slave trade in Washington, D.C.

Answer explanation

The Missouri Compromise had the effect of temporarily resolving the issue of slavery in the United States by allowing Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, while Maine was admitted as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the remaining Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30' parallel.