This is the name of one of the abolitionists covered in our biography project.
What is Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Harriet Tubman, or Sojourner Truth?
100
The number of slaves in the United States ____________________________, even after 1808 when Congress made importing slaves from Africa illegal.
What is increased?
100
An 1854 law passed by Congress that allowed the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide whether to become free states to slave states.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
100
These individuals could not own property, had to give their wages to their husbands, and could not vote or attend all colleges.
What is women?
100
The economy of the south was based on agriculture, while the economy of the north relied heavily on _________________________________.
What is manufacturing?
200
________________________________ were black and white, Northern and Southern, and male and female. These individuals wanted to end slavery in the United States.
What is abolitionists?
200
Lincoln was the only candidate of four in the election of 1860 who was firmly opposed to the spread of ________________________.
What is slavery?
200
A law passed by Congress that required police in free states to help capture escaping slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
200
The Seneca Falls Convention, with over 240 in attendance, was held for this purpose.
What is to discuss women’s rights and create “A Declaration of Rights and Sentiments,” listing the 18 rights they believed women should have?
200
The economy of the south was based on ________________________________, while the economy of the north relied heavily on manufacturing.
What is agriculture?
300
Seven of the Southern states _______________________ from the Union in 1861, forming the Confederate States of America.
What is seceded?
300
Provide one reason why a southern plantation owner would be pleased with the Fugitive Slave Law.
What is slave catchers would return their slaves?
300
A law passed by Congress in 1820 that divided the Louisiana Territory into areas allowing slavery and areas outlawing slavery.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
This woman made the statement, “Look at me! I have plowed, and planted, and gathered [crops] into barns, and no man could head [outdo] me! And ain’t I a woman?”
What is Sojourner Truth?
300
The seven states seceded formed this new country.
What is the Confederate States of America?
400
This rebellion caused: The death of 60 men, women, and children from slaveowning families, terrified whites to kill over 100 innocent enslaved and free blacks, and laws that forbid African Americans from gathering in public places and holding their own religious services.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
400
The South produced two-thirds of the world’s supply of cotton, creating this saying.
What is "Cotton is King?"
400
A law passed by Congress admitting California to the Union, allowing people in the territories to decide slavery for themselves, and obtaining the North’s agreement to obey the Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
The __________________________________________ was the country’s first women’s rights meeting.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
400
The belief that each state should be allowed to make its own decisions about issues affecting it is called ___________________________________.
What is states' rights?
500
This was know for using songs to help slaves escape, giving "railroad" names to the various people and places involved. Those caught helping could be hanged.
What is the Underground Railroad?
500
Uncle Tom's Cabin was written to protest this law.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
500
In 1857, the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott Decision said slaves were ________________________________.
What is private property?
500
Provide one reason it is important to be able to state your opinion respectfully.
What is to sound intelligent, to be respected, or to have others listen to your opinion?
500
What are four of the seven states that seceded?
What is South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas?