Which best describes life in the North?

Most people lived in large towns and worked in factories.

What were the slave codes?

Laws to control the behavior of the slaves.

What happened after Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860?

The southern states began to secede.

What was the Fugitive Slave Law?

Said escaped slaves who reached freedom in North = returned to owners

Which best describes life in the South?

Most people worked and lived on farms.

What was the Underground Railroad?

A system to help slaves escape to freedom in the North.

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1
What was the most important difference between the North and the South?
slavery
jobs
homes
climate
2
Which best describes life in the North?
Most people lived in large towns and worked in factories.
Most people lived and worked on farms.
Most people lived in large towns and worked on farms.
Most people lived on farms and worked in factories.
3
The slave states who did NOT secede from the United States became known as the _____________.
Free states
Union states
Border states
Abolitionist states
4
What was the name of the government formed by the states that seceded from the Union?
Freedom Fighters
Union
Confederacy
Democracy
5
Who was the president of the seceded states?
Jefferson Davis
Stephen Douglass
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E Lee
6
Which is one way slaves resisted slavery?
meeting their owners
singing in the fields
working slowly
telling family stories
7
What were the slave codes?
Codes placed on slaves, so they could be identified.
Codes the slaves made to communicate with each other.
Codes the owners had to communicate with each other.
Laws to control the behavior of the slaves.
8
Which compromise settled how states from Louisiana Purchase would become free or slave & admitted Maine as free state?
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
9
What allowed California to be admitted as a free state & passed the Fugitive Slave Law?
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
10
What happened after Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860?
All states became free states.
People moved to the western territories.
All slaves were declared free.
The southern states began to secede.
11
What was the Fugitive Slave Law?
Said escaped slaves who reached freedom in North stay free.
Said escaped slaves could become legal citizens of the USA.
Said escaped slaves who reached freedom in North = returned to owners
Said escaped slaves must be returned to Africa.
12
Which slave went to court for the right to be free but was told by the Supreme Court that slaves had no rights?
Dred Scott
William Lloyd Garrison
Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglass
13
Who was the abolitionist who led attacks on pro-slavery people in Kansas & Virginia, got caught, & was hung?
John Brown
William Lloyd Garrison
Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglass
14
Which best describes life in the South?
Most people lived in large towns and worked on farms.
Most people lived in large towns and worked in factories.
Most people worked and lived on farms.
Most people lived on farms and worked in factories.
15
What was the Underground Railroad?
Underground tunnels used to travel from main house to slave quarters.
A system to help slaves escape to freedom in the North.
A railroad that ran underground to the North.
A system to move slaves from one plantation to another.
16
Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Sojourner Truth
Dred Scott
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
17
What are the states who remained loyal to the United States known as?
Union
Abolitionists
Confederacy
Border States
18
Which allowed people of each territory to decide whether they wanted to be a free or slave state?
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
19
Which state was the first to secede from the United States?
Georgia
Virginia
South Carolina
Texas
20
The idea that slaves should have the right to make decisions about issues that concern themselves is _________.
states' rights
democracy
statehood
federalism

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