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Name__________________________________________________________ Period#______________The South & Slavery Video Q’sDirections: Answer the following using the video, Pageant and AMSCO. Some questions are better answered out of order as they may need more information from other sources. (Chpt. 16 Pageant/Chpt. 9 AMSCO)1. When did the first African slaves come to America?2. How did the Stono Rebellion & Bacon’s Rebellion help the shift from indentured servants to slaves? p. 73 Pageant3. Although slavery is not addressed fully at the Constitutional Convention, describe the two compromises or “achievements” of that convention in regards to slavery.a) 3/5ths Compromise:b) Slave Trade: (Does this end the slave trade completely—explain)4. What was the fugitive Slave Act?5. What were the economic and social reasons for the North & Middle states ending slavery in the late 1700s-early 1800s?Economic:Social:6. Not only did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 give the national government control of how land would be bought & organized as states in the Northwest of the Ohio River Valley, but it also outlawed what?7. How does the Missouri Compromise postpone the slavery issue? The Compromise of 1850? The Kansas- Nebraska Act of 1854? pp. 247, 297-298 & 406-408 PageantMissouri Compromise:Compromise of 1850:Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854:8. Explain what a “cash crop” is and what they were in the South.9. Who invented the cotton gin and how did it make the demand for slavery increase?10. What & where were the “market revolutions”?11. How was the North complicit in the increase in slavery even as they outlaw it in their own states?12. How was America’s expansion west contributing to the demand for slave labor?13. What was the “internal slave trade”?14. What does “Antebellum” mean?15. Describe the antebellum South—3 examples:a)b)c)16. The majority of Southerners did/did not own slaves. (Underline answer). Explain then why many Southerners supported the institution of slavery economically and socially?Economically:Socially:17. What is an oligarchy and why would the South be described as one? How might this have affected why politically slavery remained legal?a)b)18. Compare and Contrast the South & North & Slavery: Use the following areas to compare & contrast:1. Immigration 2. Politically 3.Economically 4. Socially1566545746760North020000North3982085748665South020000South19. Describe the African-American Free Communities:Northern:Southern:20. What is a “mulatto”?21. Describe slavery in general:a) Chattel Slavery:b) Uncle Tom’s Cabin:c) Deep South:d) Reading & Writing:e) Civil Rights:22. Describe the blended cultures that came out of slavery:Religion: a) Responsorial:b) Spiritual:Resistance to slavery:a) Slowdowns:b) Underground R & Rs:c) Stono Rebellion:d) Denmark Vesey:e) Nat Turner:23. What were “Black codes” and why were they implemented?24. What were ‘Slave Patrols”?25. Describe the following abolitionists:a) Quakers:b) American Colonization Society:c) David Walker:d) William Lloyd Garrison:e) Sojourner Truth/Frederick Douglas:f) Liberty Party of 1840:26. Describe the Southern Reaction to anti-slave rhetoric:a) Gag Resolution:b) Reading or writing ban:c) Slave Codes:d) Anti-slavery literature:e) Pro-slavery arguments: ................
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