Causes of the Civil war

Question 0

Who was black moses?

Answer 0

Harriet Tubman

Question 1

what was the 4 main categories on the road to war

Answer 1

general sectional differences(climate, lifestyle, work diff.)
Economics
Land issues
Slavery

Question 2

how many trips into the south did Tubman take?

Answer 2

19

Question 3

why were the first African Americans brought to America?

Answer 3

as indentured servants

Question 4

what was the worst part of a slaves journey

Answer 4

Middle passage

Question 5

when was The cotton gin invented?

Answer 5

1793

Question 6

who invented the cotton gin?

Answer 6

Eli Whitney

Question 7

how many slaves were in the south by 1860?

Answer 7

4,000,000

Question 8

where and when did the prosser revolt take place?

Answer 8

1800- Richmond, VA

Question 9

Where and when did the Vesey revolt take place?

Answer 9

1822-Charleston, SC

Question 10

what was special about Denmark Vesey?

Answer 10

He was a free black man who carried out a slave revolt

Question 11

When was Nat Turners revolt, and why was it different?

Answer 11

1831, he was put on trial before being hung

Question 12

W.L. Garrison?

Answer 12

founded the liberator

Question 13

Frederick DouglaSS?

Answer 13

escaped slave. founded the North Star. enormous strength. died in 1895

Question 14

HARRIET TUBMAN.

Answer 14

“black moses” born in 1819
made 19 trips into the south
prime conductor
died at age of 94

Question 15

john brown!?

Answer 15

crazy man.
pottawatomie creek in Kansas
100000 guns stolen

Question 16

what former US president helped free the Africans that mutinied aboard Amistad?

Answer 16

John Quincy Adams

Question 17

what African tribe was referred to as warlike

Answer 17

ashantis

Question 18

what was the term for rejected Africans were not brought here?

Answer 18

mackrons

Question 19

what were the traditional hours of the slave workday

Answer 19

from can (see) to cant (see)

Question 20

what was the name for a man who truly drove the slave workforce

Answer 20

overseers

Question 21

what was the name of the most serious Slave revolt of the prerevolutionary. Where does it take place?

Answer 21

Stono rebellion, SC

Question 22

what would rebellious slaves hide in the milk of their masters to try to fight back

Answer 22

ground glass and spiders

Question 23

in what year did Harriet Tubman decide to set out on how to make a break for freedom

Answer 23

1849

Question 24

how many slaves did Harriet Tubman eventually bring to the north

Answer 24

300

Question 25

what was the most common weapon used by slave women to try and fight back against their masters

Answer 25

Poison

Question 26

what date was Gabriel Prosser hung for his action of planning a slave revolt

Answer 26

October 7th, 1800

Question 27

when was Denmark Vesey hung for his plot to overthrow slavery

Answer 27

July 2nd, 1822

Question 28

what year was Nat Turner hung for his part in a slave revolt

Answer 28

November 11, 1831

Question 29

what year did the Amistad take place

Answer 29

1839

Question 30

true or false Missouri compromise let territories decide the issue of slavery

Answer 30

FALSE

Question 31

true or false Missouri compromise allowed one Freestate and one slave state into the union

Answer 31

TRUE

Question 32

true or false the compromise of 1850 dealt with the territory from the Mexican war

Answer 32

TRUE

Question 33

true or false popular sovereignty let the territory decide the issue of slavery

Answer 33

true

Question 34

true or false California was admitted into the union as a slave state

Answer 34

FALSE

Question 35

true or false the fugitive slave act was part of the compromise of 1850

Answer 35

true

Question 36

what was the main crop grown in the south

Answer 36

cotton

Question 37

Who made the Missouri compromise

Answer 37

Henry clay

Question 38

what was Henry Clay's nickname

Answer 38

the great compromiser

Question 39

Maine and Missouri and 36-30

Answer 39

Missouri compromise

Question 40

what year did the Missouri compromise take place

Answer 40

1820

Question 41

explain the Missouri compromise

Answer 41

maine came in as a Freestate Missouri came in as a slave state and no slavery was to exist up over 36 30 line of latitude

Question 42

where was David Wilmont from

Answer 42

Pennsylvania

Question 43

explain the Wilmont proviso

Answer 43

any territory gained from the Mexican war be "Freesoil"

Question 44

was the Wilmot proviso passed?

Answer 44

no

Question 45

explain the compromise of 1850

Answer 45

California would enter the union as a free state Utah and New Mexico territories would decide for themselves and they wanted slavery Washington DC would remain slaves but the slave trade there would be abolished a new stronger fugitive slave act was passed

Question 46

what year did the Wilmot proviso take place

Answer 46

1846

Question 47

what year did the Kansas Nebraska act place

Answer 47

1854

Question 48

explain the Kansas Nebraska act

Answer 48

Stephen Douglas came up with a proposal that each state could pick themselves about slavery

Question 49

what did popular sovereignty mean

Answer 49

that the territory or slave would pick for themselves

Question 50

what was the fugitive slave law

Answer 50

it brought the cruelty of slavery to the north making the Northerners actually see slave catchers coming into the north and blacks in chains being returned to the south slavery had now made it imprint in the mind of the north

Question 51

when was Uncle Tom's cabin released

Answer 51

1852

Question 52

Who wrote uncle Tom's cabin

Answer 52

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 53

what was the Dred Scott case

Answer 53

Scott was a slave of the military man and had one visit Illinois and Wisconsin he sued for his freedom claiming that says he's visited and lived in the territory in the north he was a free man. his owner Ruled against him saying negros were not citizens so they cannot sue in court. and that slaves were property and could like a wagon or dog be taken anywhere and since they could be taken anywhere the whole country is now potentially open to slavery- south and north

Question 54

how did Stephen Douglas win the debates in Illinois

Answer 54

by talking from both sides of his mouth

Question 55

how did Abraham Lincoln win the presidential election

Answer 55

by putting his foot down to end slavery

Question 56

what was Abraham Lincoln's famous speech from this time

Answer 56

A house divided

Question 57

what happened in John Brown's raid

Answer 57

he came into a federal arsenal

Question 58

what was the first state to leave the union

Answer 58

South Carolina

Question 59

when did South Carolina secede

Answer 59

December 20, 1860

Question 60

but April 1861 how many other states had join the Confederacy

Answer 60

6

Question 61

Who was the confederacy's president

Answer 61

Jefferson Davis

Question 62

what fort did the south open fire to

Answer 62

fort Sumter