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Test 3 M of A - Civil War and aftermath - 1 The situation c 1850
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- 1What were the dates of the American Civil War?1861-1865
- 2Abraham Lincoln gave his 'A new birth of freedom' speech at the Battle of Gettysburg. What year was this?1863
- 3A modern, capitalist business system where anybody could set up a business and make profits. North or South?North
- 4A semi-modern plantation system dominated by a few powerful slave holders. North or South?South
- 5Mostly agriculture dominated by large plantation; little industry. North or South?South
- 6Made money through the work of paid employees. North or South?North
- 7Made money through the work or slave labour. North or South?South
- 8Mixed economy: Farming, small businesses and factories. North or South?North
- 9Believed slavery was unfair competition for business and factory owners. North or SouthNorth
- 10Believed slavery was natural and that modern factories and capitalists made whites workers into 'wage slaves'. North or South?South
- 11Who is an abolitionist?Somebody who believes slavery is morally wrong and wants to ban it.
- 12Which paper did that spread abolitionist views was founded in 1831?The Liberator
- 13Who found the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator?William Lloyd Garrison
- 14When was the National Anti-Slavery Society formed?1838
- 15Which escaped slave we learnt about gave lectures and wrote articles about the nature of life for slaves in the South?Frederick Douglass
- 16Which Female abolitionist and freed slave helped thousands of slaves to escape from the south?Harriet Tubman
- 17What do we call the network of trails and hideouts that slaves used to escape from slavery?The Underground Railroad
- 18In 1851 Harriet Beecher-Stowe published which book that laid bare the horrors of slavery?Uncle Tom's Cabin
- 19In which year did Henry Clay suggest his compromise?1850
- 20What did Clay's compromise say should happen to California?It should enter the Union as a free(non-slave state)
- 21Clay's compromise said what should be banned from the capital, Washington DC?The sale of salves
- 22According to Clay's compromise what should happen in territories like New Mexico and Utah?They should be allowed to decided fro themselves if they wanted slavery
- 23Clay also wanted all states and het national government to a fugitive Slave Act. What was this?The act would make a legal duty to return escaped slaves to their holders
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