Road to the Civil War
Antebellum, the period in U.S. history with the institution of slavery, ultimately led to this conflict.
What is the Civil War?
This Women Abolitionist led enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This Radical Abolitionist led the biggest slave revolt in U.S. history.
Who is Nat Turner?
People who are opposed to slavery were called this.
What is Abolitionist?
Harriet Tubman led dozens of people to freedom on this.
What is the Underground Railroad?
A compromise regarding this state created the dividing line between Southern Slave States and Northern Free States in 1820.
What is Missouri.
This Women Abolitionist gave the famous "Ain't I A Women" speech advocating for Women's suffrage and Black's emancipation.
This Radical Abolitionist led a raid on a U.S. Amory.
Who is John Brown?
Abolitionists wanted to abolish this institution.
What is slavery?
This was the term for people who guided escaping slaves on the Underground Railroad.
What is "Conductor"?
Violent conflicts between slavery supporters and abolitionists caused this modern day state to "bleed" throughout the 1850's.
What is Kansas?
This Women Abolitionist wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. Which exposed slavery to Northern and Western audiences and was banned and burned in the South.
Who is Harriet Beacher Stowe?
The raid on the U.S. Armory by Radical Abolitionists was in this town in modern day wild and wonderful West Virginia where the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers converge.
What is Harper's Ferry?
This Abolitionist was the most photographed American of the 1800's.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
What are Mexico and Canada?
This Supreme Court decision in 1857 is considered the worst in U.S. History as it reenforced the institution of slavery by legalizing the practice of slaveholding even in Free States.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
What is the Women's Suffrage Movement.
Radical Abolitions differed from their Abolitionists counterparts due to their use of this controversial tactic.
What is violence?
This Abolitionist published a newspaper in New England for decades advocating for emancipation.
Who is William Llyod Garrison?
Following rugged terrain of Appalachian Mountains and the natural highway of the Shenandoah Valley this town in Virginia was a stop on the Underground Railroad.
What is Luray?
This President's victory in the 1860 Presidential Election caused South Carolina to secede from the Union sparking the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Women Abolitionists regardless of race sympathized with enslaved women over this issue regarding raising their children.
Radical Abolitionists were inspired by perceived personal messages from this Christian religious figure.
Who is Jesus?
This was the name of leading Abolitionist newspaper in U.S.
What is The Liberator?
NOT a literal subterranean transit system the Underground Railroad was instead made up of this type of network.
What are sympathetic supporters and safe houses?