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Solutions 2025-2026 Updated.
Legal status made slaves unable to.. - Answer marry, file legal suits, testify
1808 made this thing illegal - Answer Slave importation and trade
1808-1850, Pop. of blacks went from... - Answer 1 million to 4 million
What contributed to the slave population growth in the early 1800's? - Answer Antebellum
masters treated their slaves better because they couldn't go buy more. Sensitive to their needs
Because marriage was illegal, slaves... - Answer married outside the law
Plantation master's wife - Answer Plantation mistress
what was misogenation - Answer the mixing of races
Why did Masters let ministers preach to the slaves during the Second Great Awakening? -
Answer They believed it would make the slaves more obedient. Taught the slaves a twisted
form of christianity.
What did the slaves' own brand of Christianity emphasize? - Answer Justice, retributions,
masters would be punished in the next world. Gave them comfort and satisfaction
What were the main parts of slave culture? - Answer Music, religion, dancing, oral stories
Methods in which slaves resisted authority - Answer Played stupid, dropped things, were
inventive with this. Whites thought it was just them being inferior.
What happened when slaves tried to escape? - Answer Denied their master work. Upper
states made it to freedom (VA and MA), lower states did not. Received whippings and
, and helpers invaded and murdered whites. After rebellion was crushed, for every white man
murdered, two slaves were killed.
In what ways did most slaves fight back, since rebellion was risky? - Answer Culturally and
spiritually
18th century found the North and South dependent on different what? - Answer Labor
sources
What was the South's labor source? - Answer Slavery and a hierarchal society based on
paternalism
What was the North's labor source? - Answer The Industrial revolution created market based
competition and master worker classifications
What was the first tell tale sign that the North and South were diverging? - Answer
Demographics and the fact that the North began to have more power than the south when it
came to the House (South only had 42% of votes)
What was the first sign that demographics and voting was taking it's toll on the South? - Answer
Missouri territory applying for statehood
What was Henry Clay's Compromise for Missouri? - Answer Missouri a slave state with no
restrictions. Missouri's southern border (36'30) would be extented to west coast. No more slave
states above this line EVER. Maine would be admitted as a free state to keep the balance.
What were the attitudes towards Clay's compromise? - Answer It passed but nobody really
liked it. North thought it was a slaveholder victory, south thought the north's attitude towards
their labor source was pompous.
What did the free blacks do during the Missouri debates? - Answer Filled the House, listened
to anti-slavery speeches. This scared the south. South more determined to assert slavery
1828 was a Tarriff on... - Answer Imported goods. Said to protect American businesses and
competition, but the south took it as a shot at them because they imported a lot of British
goods.