What is the Underground Railroad?

A network of roads and safe houses to help runaway slaves

What is the Fugitive Slave Law?

It was legal for slave owners to capture runaway slaves in the North

What are abolitionists?

Someone who doesn't like slavery and wants it to end

What is the Compromise of 1850?

Added Cali as a free state, Utah as a slave territory

Why did the Fugitive Slave Law benefit the South?

It made slavery basically legal in all the states

What is sectionalism?

People more loyal to an area of the country rather than the whole country

What caused Bleeding Kansas?

The idea that states should choose if they wanted to be free or slave state

Who was the workers of the North?

Immigrants, women, and children

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1
Who used enslaved Africans to pick cotton?
South
Both
Neither
North
2
What is the Underground Railroad?
A railroad underground aka a Subway
The new Taylor Swift song
A network of roads and safe houses to help runaway slaves
Its a school
3
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
It was legal for slaves to runaway
Made slavery illegal
It was legal for slave owners to capture runaway slaves in the North
It threw all slave owners into jail
4
Who had the advantage going into the Civil War?
North
South
5
What are abolitionists?
Its a song
Someone who is from another country
Someone who doesn't like slavery and wants it to end
Someone who owned slaves
6
How did enslaved people resist slavery?
All of the above
They pretended to be sick
They worked slow
They ran away
7
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Added Cali as a free state, Utah as a slave territory
It ended slavery in the United States
It kicked Texas out of the United States
Mexico declaring war
8
Why did the Fugitive Slave Law benefit the South?
It ended slavery in the US
It made it so there were more free states than slave states
It benefited the North since they had the slaves
It made slavery basically legal in all the states
9
What was the economy of the North?
Slaves
Factories
Farms
Sheep
10
The Cotton Gin INCREASED the demand for enslaved Africans in the South.
False
True
11
What is sectionalism?
People more loyal to an area of the country rather than the whole country
Its where people are cut in half
A section of a pie
People loving their country too much
12
What caused Bleeding Kansas?
Too many heart attacks
The idea that states should choose if they wanted to be free or slave state
Mexico invaded Kansas
Abraham Lincoln declared war on Kansas
13
What did the Missouri Compromise do?
Added Maine as a free state
All of the above
Made slavery above the Missouri line illegal
Added Missouri as a slave state
14
What is the geography of the South?
They have no geography
Mountains, rocky, rivers
Desert with no water
Flat, fertile, farmland
15
Who was the workers of the North?
Only really rich men
They had no workers
Enslaved Africans
Immigrants, women, and children

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