Video: Freedom's Road: Opposition to Slavery

1.Why did northern states abolish slavery?
2.Where did the southern states hope to extend slavery?
3.What did Jefferson say about slavery in a letter?
4.What would replace slave labor in the North?
5.What fraction of southerners were enslaved?
6.What were white southerners also concerned about if slaves were set free?
7.What restrictions were placed on slaves?
8.Why was learning to read forbidden?
9.What would happen to 1/3 of slave families?
10.How much would slaves be sold for?
11.What was the significance of slave songs?
12.What were examples of slave resistance?
13.Why did slaveholders fear their slaves?
14.What did they fear northerners might do?
15.What happened in the 1850s that would support slavery?
16.What was the source of wealth in the South?
17. in the North?
18.What was the source of cheap labor in the North?
19.How many free blacks were living in the North?
20.What did many (most?) of the northern whites believe?
21.What did the Supreme Court do in 1857?
22.What did the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 do?
23.What would the north and south argue bitterly about?
24.What was at stake politically?
25.What territory would become a battleground?
26.What was the goal of the Republican Party?
27.How is Abraham Lincoln described?
28.What happened when Lincoln wins the election?
29.What would the southern states form?
30.How did Lincoln view slavery?
31.What was a practical reason for Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
32.What did Lincoln favor?
33.What states was he worried about?
34.What effect did the Proclamation have on their slave population?
35.What did the London Times say about the Emancipation Proclamation?
36.What would happen in the northern cities?
37.Why?
38.What effect would the Proclamation have on northern blacks?
39.What was Lincoln's concern about black soldiers?
40.How many blacks would serve in the Union army?
41.How many would die?
42.What happened at Fort Pillow?
43.What did Lincoln propose in 1865?
44.What would Gen. Sherman do once his army reached the Atlantic Coast?
45.What were the consequences of Lincoln's death?
46.What would happen to the land given to the freed slaves?
47.What new relationships would replace slave-slaveholder?
48.What would white southerner leaders attempt to do?
49.What would Jim Crow laws do?
50.What were three reasons why the Civil War was fought?