Unit 2 Review (so far)

Match the following

• disenfranchisement

• to deprive a person of the right to vote

• popular sovereignty

• the right to vote

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  suffrage

• citizens are the authority in government and determine the laws by vote

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  sectionalism

• greater loyalty to one's region rather than one's country

Which statement best describes the economic differences between the North and the South prior to the Civil War?

• Most manufacturing industries were located in the Southern cities.

• The North had a greater rural population than an urban population.

• The Northern economy was more agricultural than the South.

• The Southern economy was dependent on the labor of enslaved people, while the North was not.

How did the slaveholders and leaders in the slaveholding regions react to Nat Turner's Rebellion?

• Enslavers improved the way they treated enslaved people to avoid more rebellions.

• Politicians decided to address how new states would determine the legality of slavery in their territory.

• They enacted harsher Black Codes to stop the threat of more rebellions.

• Large numbers of Southern slaveholders denounced slavery and became abolitionists.

How did the invention of the cotton gin affect the cotton-growing industry?

• More farmers started smaller cotton-growing farms because the technology meant they needed fewer enslaved people and paid workers.

• Cotton growers needed to raise the price of cotton to pay for the new technology.

• Northern textile mills began to process cotton from India because the price of Southern cotton rose.

• It led to a greater demand for land to grow cotton and enslaved people to work the field.

How did the Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford affect the status of enslaved people and slavery?

• Enslaved people that freed themselves or lived in a free state were considered free people.

• Dred Scott and his family had not lived long enough in a free state to qualify as a free person and the Missouri law of "once free, always free," did not apply to them.

• Enslaved people were not citizens but rather "property" and could not sue for their freedom if they lived in a free state.

• The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was legal and the states had a right to determine for themselves if it could be a free state or one that allowed enslavement.

What development occurred as a result of female participation in the abolitionist movement?

• Fewer men in the abolitionist leadership roles

• The growth of women's rights organizations and activities

• A decrease in the nationwide support for abolition

• More antislavery legislation was introduced in Congress

Which abolitionist was a conductor on the Underground Railroad and led violent attacks against slavery in Kansas and Harpers Ferry before the Civil War?

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

• John Brown

• William Lloyd Garrison

What is the main reason that the Republican political party was formed?

• To stop the spread of slavery into territories

• To abolish slavery throughout the United States

• To protect the principle of popular sovereignty

• To weaken the influence of the Whig Party

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Union Advantages

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(b) Confederate Advantages

• Larger population

• Better Officers

• Manufacturing

• System of Transportation

How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the course of the Civil War?

Select all that apply.

• Enslaved people in all the states where slavery was legal rose in massive rebellions.

• The immorality of slavery became the Union's focus of the war.

• African American men were permitted to join the Union forces.

• Abraham Lincoln was reelected with widespread support the same year.