What were clipper ships used to transport?
Furs, gold, diamonds
Slaves, opium, tea
Silk, jewels, tools
Sugar, rum, furniture
What made clipper ships travel fast?
They were large with 2 massive sails
They were flat like a barge with no sails
They had twenty rowers per side
They were small with many sails
What was hunted with clipper ships and why?
Fish for sale in the market
Eels for their thick skins
Whales for their oil and baleen
Dolphins to use as pets
What was Harriet Tubman known for?
Helping about 300 slaves escape to freedom
Escaping slavery and hiding in a cabin
Helping the Union as a spy in the Civil War
Writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Tor F Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky, & West Virginia were slave states.
True
T or F-Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky, & West Virginia were part of confederacy (map in notebook wrong)
False
At Harper’s Ferry in 1859, who captured a federal arsenal, & tried to start a slave revolt?
John Brown
Ulysses S. Grant
Nat Turner
Abe Lincoln
True or False: The only thing that the Civil War was caused by was slavery.
False
What did states’ rights have to do with the Civil War?
The North didn’t want the South to have any say in the govt.
The South wanted each state to have its own power
The North wanted each state to have its own power.
The south wanted to have power over the northern states.
Which state first seceded from the Union and when?
South Carolina, December 1820
Virginia, December 1865
North Carolina, December 1821
Texas, December 1836
Why did southerners have slaves?
For labor building furniture
For labor in their factories
For labor on their plantations and farms
For labor clearing lumber on the frontier
Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe write Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
To defend slavery to Northerners
To try to gain slave-owner’s support for abolition
To be a code-cracking book for escaping slaves
To show to Northerners how cruel slavery was
Name the secret system of stops for slaves escaping from the south.
The Underground Railroad
The Abolitionist Rebellion
The Pony Express
The Super-Spy Network
What decision did the govt. make in 1850 that greatly affected escaping slaves? P 216
Dred Scott Decision
Compromise of 1850
Banning Tik-Tok Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
As part of the decision in 1850, what did the fugitive slave act mean for escaping slaves?
People in slave or free states had to turn in runaways
Fugitive slaves were free as soon as set foot in free state
Caught runaways would be catcher's property
Slaves could no longer be U.S. citizens
*What agreement did the the Kansas Nebraska act of 1854 un-do? P 240
Missouri Compromise of 1820
The Declaration of Independence
The 13th Ammendment to the Constitution (outlawed slavery)
Dred Scott Decision (Slaves could not be US citizens)
