Suffrage & Abolition
This abolitionist became famous for writing about how she was unable to raise her children
Who is Sojourner Truth?
He won the 1860 election and became the 16th President of the United States
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This person was responsible for proposing the Kansas-Nebraska act
Who was Stephen Douglas?
This word refers to the group of people who wanted to end slavery
Who are the abolitionists?
This was the root of slavery in the U.S.
What is racism?
What is suffrage?
What is the Democratic Party?
What was Bleeding Kansas?
What is segregation?
This was the slave who sued for freedom after his owners moved to a free state
Who was Dred Scott?
Who was at least one women's right's activist that we learned about?
Who are Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, or Lucretia Mott?
Name one state that voted for Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election
What was Oregan, California, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Vermont, Maine, or New Hampshire
What is popular sovereignty?
This is the belief that one race is superior to another
What is racism?
He is responsible for saying, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What law prohibited slaves from escaping to the North by allowing their master's to capture them and return them to the south?
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
John Bell was a member of this political party
What was the Constitutional Unionist Party?
This was what the border ruffians did
What is crossing the Kansas border to illegally participate in their election determining whether they would be a free or slave state?
These were law enforcers who worked for the U.S. government who were forced to help capture escaped slaves under the fugitive slave act
Who were Federal Marshalls?
It divided the Free and Slave states. The states North of the line opposed slavery and the states South of the line supported it
Where did William Lloyd Garrison encourage slaves to escape to?
Where is the North?
(Land of Liberty is also acceptable)
These were the two Democratic candidates in the 1860 election
Who were Stephen Douglas and John Breckinridge?
Name 3 parts of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Must have at least 3 of these:
California entered the US as a free State
The Fugitive Slave Act
Popular Sovereignty
Slave trade was banned in D.C.
Repealed the Missouri compromise (36-30 line)
This is when two sides have a different opinion and each one has give in a little bit to reach agreement
What is a compromise?
This is the reason the Republican Party was founded
There were no existing political parties who reflected the North's growing concerns over slavery
OR
There were no other anti-slavery parties