Social Studies- Chapter 1
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- Purpose of The Missouri Compromise
- intended to balance power between free and slave states, allowed one free state and one slave state to join Union at same time
- In the 1850's most Southerners lived on farms or small towns
- True
- Why Southern States fear outlawing of slavery
- Slavery was profitable to Southern economy, goods an enslaved person produced brought in at least 2x's as much money as the cost of owning a slave
- The ship Amistad was overturned and the slaves returned to Africa
- True
- In the 1850's most large cities were located in the North
- True
- Jefferson Davis wanted to capture Fort Sumter
- Northern forces powerful oppositon, Confederacy already taken control of most forts and military property of South
- The North hoped to end slavery
- True
- Northerners and Southerners disagreed over the results of the slavery vote. This led to violence in Kansas in 1854
- True
- People were outraged at Supreme Court ruling (Dred Scott) because it stated African Americans had no rights
- True
- Goals in US as they entered the Civil War
- wanted to preserve slavery, wanted to preserve the Union, wanted to end slavery
- The Southern States seceded from the Union to keep slavery
- True
- One way slaves resisted was holding back on their work
- True
- Free African Americans lived in fear of losing their freedom
- True
- Lincoln opposed slavery, while Douglas thought slavery had its place
- True
- The battle at Fort Sumter was the official start of the Civil War
- True
- By the 1850's most Northern States had outlawed slavery
- True
- How underground railroad was successful in fight against slavery
- organized, secret system, white and Aftrican American helped slaves escape to North and Canada
- Slavery was very profitable for the Southern economy
- True