Context-- America in the 1800s
Abolition-- the struggle for freedom
Compromise & Conflict
Close Reading-- the power of words
Vocabulary
100
This idea inspired thousands of people to head West during the 19th century.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
The abolitionist movement grew changed its tone and grew quickly during this decade.
What is the 1830s?
100
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was controversial because it advocated this method of deciding slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
"The senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him-- slavery" is a reference to which incident?
What is the caning of Charles Sumner?
100
Abolition
What is getting rid of slavery?
200
This invention caused the value of cotton to skyrocket, solidifying the need for slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
200
William Lloyd Garrison did this in 1831, forever changing the tone of the abolitionist movement.
What is the founding of The Liberator?
200
The Missouri Compromise did this to maintain the balance of free states and slave states.
What is pass the 36 30' parallel?
200
Douglass uses this literary device in many of his speeches, showing that he is a respected authority on the subject of slavery because he himself was a slave.
What is Pathos?
200
"Ms. Harvey. does. not. care." is an example of what literary device?
What is syntax?
300
Cotton affected the North and South in these two different ways.
What is industry in the North and agriculture in the South?
300
Congress responded in this way after the abolitionists began a moralsuasion campaign.
What is the Gag Act?
300
This part of the Compromise of 1850 angered the Northerners most. (Include why)
What is the Fugitive Slave Act because it required Northerners to capture and send slaves back to the South.
300
We do this to identify biased text and put together the most factual account of a historical event.
Why do we look at multiple sources?
300
This term highlighted the question of who decided if a territory had slavery-- the states or the federal government.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
This decade saw the largest number of immigrants come into the United States, all heading west.
What are the 1850s?
400
Frederick Douglass delivered this famous speech in 1852, passionately calling for the active abolition of slavery.
What is "What to the Negro is the Fourth of July?"
400
These two events basically repealed the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott Decision?
400
In the phrase "I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon", Truth uses diction is what way?
What is to create comfort and appeal to ethos?
400
Martyr
What is someone who dies for a cause?
500
The Second Great Awakening caused these two effects in the American people.
What is "free will" and increased social responsibility.
500
Harper's Ferry raised these questions about the abolition movement.
Is violence justified if it's to make peace? Does one man have the right to form a revolt, or does it need to be a group? Was John Brown a murderer or martyr?
500
The Democrats and Republicans reacted to the Dred Scott decision in these ways.
What is happiness from the Democrats and anger from the Republicans?
500
"The 347,525 Slaveholders in the Republic accomplished day before yesterday a great success-- as shallow men define success...." refers to what?
What is The Dred Scott Decision?
500
Second Great Awakening.
What is the religious revival that swept through the United States in the early 1800s?
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