The Founding
What 1776 document states "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" and inspired debates about slavery?
Who was the African American killed in the Boston Massacre and later became a symbol of Black patriotism?
Crispus Attucks
What cash crop’s dominance led Southern leaders to declare "Cotton is King"?
Cotton
(If you got this wrong, I'm crying real tears)
Who published The Liberator and argued for immediate emancipation?
William Llyod Garrison
Underground Railroad
What compromise at the Constitutional Convention counted enslaved people for representation and taxation?
Three-Fifths Compromise
Name the poet kidnapped from Africa who became the first African American to publish a book of poetry.
Phyllis Wheatly
Which 1803 land purchase doubled U.S. territory and intensified debates over slavery’s expansion?
Louisianna Purchase
Who escaped slavery, founded The North Star, and became a leading abolitionist orator and writer?
Frederick Douglass
Leader of the bloodiest revolt and evade capture for 6 weeks.
Nat Turner
Which founding father drafted the Declaration of Independence but also owned slaves and proposed language condemning the slave trade in an early draft?
Thomas Jefferson
Who was the self-taught astronomer and mathematician who corresponded with Thomas Jefferson and helped survey the new capital?
Benjamin Banneker
What was the domestic consequence of the invention of the cotton gin on slavery and the internal slave trade?
Increase in demand for enslaved
Name the woman who escaped slavery, became a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and led hundreds to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
A series of violent clashes in Kansas between pro- and anti-slavery settlers; caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act
"Bleeding Kansas"
What 1808 federal action limited the international slave trade?
1808 Ban on Slave Importation
Which free Black leader founded a predominantly African American Freemason organization and advocated for education?
Prince Hall
What 1828 federal policy angered the South and made imported products more expensive?
Tarriff of 1828
A.K.A "Tariff of Abominations"
How did David Walker's Appeal encourage people achieve abolish slavery
By any means necessary
Largest rebellion that ended with extremely violent consequences including death and public display of these consequences
Louisiana Rebellion of 1811
U.S. Constitution took this stance on the issue of slavery
Will allow it for 20 more years then we will reevaluate later.
Which Caribbean revolution, led by Toussaint L’Ouverture, successfully overthrew European control and inspired enslaved people in the Americas?
Haitian Revolution
Explain how the Market Revolution contributed to growing sectionalism between North and South
Increased demand for cash crops like cotton, sugar, tobacco.
Anti-slavery newspapers like The North Star, Liberator, & Mystery attempting to change the minds of the people by appeal to this.
Rebellion attempted by John Brown but did not go to place and was sentenced to death by hanging