Ideas
The idea that slavery must be ended
What is abolitionism?
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
What is Fort Sumter?
An uprising of enslaved people in Virginia in 1831.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
A system of forced labor
What is slavery?
The theological argument that each person is made in the image of God, which was used to argue against slavery.
What is Imago Dei?
A famous leader on the Underground Railroad who made 13 trips freeing 70 people
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The location of John Brown's raid
What is Harper's Ferry, Virginia?
A law that was passed in 1850 making it illegal to help anyone escaping from slavery
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
The transition from goods made by hands to goods made by machines
What is Industrialization?
The idea that people from different racial backgrounds have different values or abilities.
What is racism?
The writer of the speech, "What to the Slave is Your Fourth of July?"
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The colony that the United States started in Africa in hopes that formerly enslaved people would want to live there
What is Liberia?
This event prompted the South to leave the Union, because they believed their interests were no longer represented in US government
What is the Election of 1860?
What happened when ten Southern states voted to leave the Union
What is secession?
Keeping two groups of people separate, such as when free African Americans in the North were required to live in different neighborhoods than European Americans
What is segregation?
This Congressman wanted to keep the country together, so he worked hard to broker two famous compromises thirty years apart.
Who is Henry Clay?
The territory that had so much conflict leading up to its vote on slavery, it was nicknamed "Bleeding --"
What is Kansas?
This famous Supreme Court case ruled that enslaved people had no rights even after they were moved into free territories.
What is the Dred Scott case?
The system of safe houses and helpers who worked to help enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The belief that the United States was intended by God to occupy all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific
What is Manifest Destiny?
This man debated Abraham Lincoln on the morality of slavery.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
The state that entered the Union as a slave state as a result of the Compromise of 1820
What is Missouri?
This created the territories of NM and UT, allowed CA to enter as a free state, and ended slave trade in DC.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
A term coined to show that cotton plantation owners were essentially aristocrats
What is "Cottonocracy"?