Question

Review Questions

1. What were the four key factors that led the United States to civil war?
2. What do you know about The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
3. What were the Personal Liberty Laws and what were they meant to do?
4. What do you know about John Brown? What was his goal and what became of him?
5. Who was Fredrick Douglass? What part did he play in the fight against slavery?
Critical Thinking Questions
Please summarize the roles of African Americans in the Civil War.
1. What was President Lincoln’s goal for compensated emancipation? What did the slave states think of this proposal?
2. What is the difference between a free labor system and slavery?
3. In what ways do you think the idea of banning slavery felt threatening to many in the South?
Why do you think that westward expansion is important in the study of African-American history?

Answer 1

1.economic interests, cultural values, the power of the federal government to control the states, and, most importantly, slavery in American society.

2.The act required that slaves be returned to their owners

3.governments to counteract the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Acts and to protect escaped slaves and free blacks settled in the North

4.John Brown was a leading figure in the abolitionist movement in the pre-Civil War United States.First reaching national prominence for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas

5.Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.During the Civil War, Douglass was a consultant to President Abraham Lincoln and helped convince him that slaves should serve in the Union forces and that the abolition of slavery should be a goal of the war.