By 1820, this cash crop was the most valuable export from the Southern states.
What is cotton?
100
Many prominent abolitionists originally opposed slavery because of their strong devotion to this.
What is religion / Christianity?
100
As a young woman she was disturbed by a slave auction in Kentucky. Later in life she wrote international best-seller Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
100
The Compromise of 1850 was prompted by this territory wanting to join the Union as a Free State.
What is California?
100
Because he had lived in the North for a number of years, this man sued in federal court for his freedom.
Who is Dred Scott?
200
This type of engine invented in the 19th Century revolutionized transportation by speeding travel and lowering shipping costs.
What is the steam engine?
200
Frederick Douglass was forced to flee the United States for this country after he wrote his autobiography.
What is the United Kingdom / Great Britain / England?
200
These abolitionists ended their friendship when one of them started his own newspaper, beginning a "family feud" that lasted years.
Who are Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison?
200
President Franklin Pierce shocked abolitionists when he sent federal troops to Boston in order to enforce this law, in 1854
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court determined that this category of people could not have the rights of US Citizens.
Who are African Americans? Who are black people?
300
Social movements, such as women's rights, labor rights and abolitionism, were prominent in the North compared with the South, because the North was more heavily effected by this era of invention and innovation.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
Believing that non-violence was weak and cowardly, this abolitionist took matters into his own hands in 1855 by murdering pro-slavery settlers in the Kansas Territory.
Who is John Brown?
300
William Lloyd Garrison was the first president of this abolitionist organization.
What is the American Anti-Slavery Society?
300
"Bleeding Kansas" was the unintended result of this policy, in which the voters decide the territory's fate.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
As part of their ruling, the Supreme Court declared this 1820 act of Congress to be unconstitutional.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
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As industry became important in the North, this type of small farmer suffered the consequences.
What is a Yeoman?
400
This abolitionist abandoned her Southern roots for the North, where she began advocating for women's rights alongside the abolition of slavery.
Who is Angelina Grimké?
400
After fleeing the violent mobs of Philadelphia, she wrote a book with her husband on the horrors of slavery.
Who is Angelina Grimké
400
A mob of people in this city shot and killed a guard trying to free runaway Anthony Burns from jail.
What is Boston?
400
The Dred Scott case strengthened this process in America; through which citizens become more loyal to their region, or community, than to the country as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
500
While the South relied primarily on unpaid slave labor to power its economy, the Northern factories were powered by this type of worker.
What is a wage-laborer?
500
Harriet Tubman helped lead over three hundred slaves to freedom. She traveled back to the slave-holding South this many times.
What is nineteen?
500
Abolitionists were strong supporters of this process, which moved people from slavery to freedom.
What is Emancipation?
500
Old Senate hands Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun teamed up with this Massachusetts senator to negotiate the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Daniel Webster?
500
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney used this constitutional amendment to back up his ruling that Congress could not ban slavery in US territories.