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1
Q

The largest slave trading center in the lower south was located in which of the following cities?

A

New Orleans

2
Q

The technology that supported and made possible the westward expansion of slavery into the Mississippi Valley was

A

The cotton gin

3
Q

Although never the largest slave market, ____ was one of the most notable, and often shot the many visitors from all over the country and so close by congressional action in 1850

A

Washington DC

4
Q

The 1860 price for the Pinefield hand in New Orleans is listed as which of the following?

A

$1800

5
Q

Laws put in place by the slaveholding southern states to safe guard the white population and protect the owning Rights of the Masters were called

A

Jim Crow laws

6
Q

Which of the following offenses was punishable by death and slave holding states?

A

All of the above

7
Q

An adaptation of the militia__ was the citizen group set up enforcing pertaining to slaves

A

The slave patrol

8
Q

The ____ system of production prevailed on most of the large agricultural plantations of the south

A

Gang labor

9
Q

Adjusted slave who assisted the master by enticing and compelling his fellow slaves to work harder and was known as a

A

Driver

10
Q

The staples of the slave diet were generally salt pork and

A

Corn meal

11
Q

The most common form of overt slave resistance in the agriculture south was

A

Running away

12
Q

What abolitionist stated “arbitrary power is to the mind what alcohol is to body; eight intoxicates”?

A

Theodore Dwight weld

13
Q

Who was the so-called president of the underground railroad?

A

Levi coffin

14
Q

What was lincolns overreaching go as he took office?

A

To Preserve the union

15
Q

By the end of the war, how many blacks had in rolled in the union army?

A

186,000

16
Q

Which of the following statements best describes black soldiers participation in the Civil War?

A

From the late 1862, there was hardly a battle fought in which some black troops did not participate

17
Q

Approximately how many black soldiers lost their lives in the Civil War?

A

38,000

18
Q

The enlistment act of July 17, 1862 provided that whites with the rank of private should be paid $13 a month and $3.50 for clothing. What or black privates to be paid?

A

$7 and $3

19
Q

How did the famous 54th Massachusetts regiment protest pay iniquities between black and white soldiers?

A

They served a year without pay

20
Q

When did the confederacy finally allow the enrollment of black soldiers?

A

in the last day of war, in March 1855

21
Q

What years did reconstruction span?

A

1865 to 1876

22
Q

Which state was not affected by the passage of the reconstruction act of 1867, the act which brought control of reconstruction firmly into the hands of Congress?

A

Tennessee

23
Q

Which reconstruction amendment overturn the Dred Scott decision?

A

Fourteenth

24
Q

Blanche K Bruce left the Senate in 1881. He was the only black person to serve a full term in that body until the election of Edward Brooke? A Republican for Massachusetts, is ___

A

1966

25
Q

And what state, during reconstruction, did blacks wield the greatest influence?

A

South Carolina