Causes
How did the not knowing party get their name?
They’re common response was “I do not know”
Who was John Brown?
An Abolitionist
What is civil disobedience?
the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey demands, orders, or laws from the governmen
What town did John brown attack the federal arsenal?
Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
What was John brown known for?
Being a white man willing to die to end slavery.
What was the elite/planter class?
The gentleman farmers who are well educated, politically astute, and usually had come from successful families.
Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
What was the fugitive slave law?
The allowance of slave hunters to seize fugitive slaves without the due process of law
What was Elizabeth Blackwell the first to do in women’s hood?
First woman to earn a medical degree
Who were the Know-Nothing Party?
The know nothing party were natives
What was the yeoman – middle class?
Farmers who had modest homes and cabins and grew a lot of corn and cotton
Who was president of the country that was formed when states seceded from the Union?
Jefferson Davis
What were the slave codes?
Slaves were not allowed to be away from their owners
What did the Kansas – Nebraska act do?
It repealed the Missouri compromise and it created two Territories which allowed popular sovereignty.
What were the three periods of the industrialization of the North?
The steam engine, the age of science and mass production, and digital tech knowledge.
What did the poor class do?
Served as slave's overseers, drivers, and traders in the southern economy
What were anti-slavery supporters called?
abolitionist
What document was read at the Seneca Falls Convention?
The declaration of sentiments
Who was in the senate race of 1853?
Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln
Who wrote the declaration of sentiments
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What caused slaves to secede from the union?
The election of President Abraham Lincoln
Who was Elizabeth Blackwell?
A British and an American Physician
What was the Kansas – Nebraska act?
A bill that mandated sovereignty by allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed whithin a new states territory.
Who came up with the idea of civil disobedience?
Henry David Thoreau
What happened the day after Lincoln was elected?
The delegates had voted that they would remove the state of South Carolina from the union which is now known as the United States of America.