Life Under Slavery
This labor system required enslaved people to work from sunrise to sunset under threat of punishment.
What is the plantation system?
Slavery
The Missouri Compromise brought ___________ into the Union as a slave state
Missouri
This country fought the United States in the war from 1846–1848.
What is Mexico?
This author wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin to expose the cruelty of slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Why did the South not want to get rid of slavery during the Antebellum period?
What is they depended on it for money (economy); they used slaves for agriculture/cotton?
What is an abolitionist? What region were they found in (north or south)?
Someone who wanted to get rid of slavery; North
The Missouri Compromise brought ____________ into the Union as a free state
Maine
How did the United States gain Texas as a state?
What is fought and bought (Mexican American War and the Guadelupe Hidalgo Treaty)?
This region became more anti-slavery due to abolitionist media.
What is the North?
This practice prevented strong family bonds among enslaved people and reinforced control.
What is family separation (sale of enslaved people)?
This invention caused slavery to increase in the south...
Cotton gin
The Missouri Compromise was important because it kept the _______________ even temporarily
Number of slave/free states; balance of power
The U.S. justified the war using this idea of expansion.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Why was Frederick Douglass such a strong voice during the abolitionist movement?
What is he told his own story of surviving slavery.
This form of resistance allowed enslaved people to push back without open rebellion.
What is everyday resistance (slow work, sabotage, feigning illness)?
This region felt the federal government should not make laws for them or interfere with them
South
The Missouri Compromise claimed that any territory that became a state below the Missouri border would be a _________state (free or slave)
Slave
This territory dispute helped start the war.
What is the Texas border (Rio Grande vs. Nueces River)?
This type of writing used personal experience to show the brutality of slavery.
What are slave narratives?
Southern writers used religion to argue slavery was morally justified because it did this.
What is “civilize” or Christianize enslaved people?
Name 3 things/events that caused more of a divide between the North and South before the Civil War.
What are:
-Slavery
-States rights
-Missouri Compromise
-Compromise of 1850
-Uncle Tom's Cabin
What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise line?
It determined where slavery was allowed or was not allowed in new states. Slavery was allowed below the line, but not above the line
Southern leaders justified the expansion of slavery using this constitutional argument.
What is protection of property rights (enslaved people as property)?
Abolitionist literature often used this strategy to influence readers.
What is appealing to emotions (sympathy/anger)?