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100
It was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Brown's raid, accompanied by 20 men in his party, was defeated by a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee.
What is John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry?
100
The Dred Scott Case was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether slave or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court, and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
100
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
An arms storehouse.
What is arsenal?
100
Chattel Slaves were the slaves that could be traded and worked under masters command, Forced Labour were slaves who lived off with threats, and Serfdom were slaves that worked under masters command, but had more freedom.
What were the different types of slaves?
200
Manifest Destiny is the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. It gave Americans confidence that the land from sea to sea was theirs and they had the right to take it. Winning the Mexican American stimulated that belief and led to the acquisition of California and some of the surrounding area. This removed all barriers from people who wanted to start a new life in the West.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.
What is Missouri Compromise?
200
Robert Edward Lee was an American career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
200
People who worked to abolish the slavery.
What is abolitionists?
200
Innocent Africans would be forced to ride the boat and the sailors would sell them or tell them to be their slaves for they did not pay the money for riding the boat.
How did one become a slave?
300
The nominees are Abraham Lincoln(Republican), John C. Breckinridge(Southern Democratic), John Bell(Constitutional Union), and Stephen A. Douglas(Democratic). Abraham Lincoln won the election, but southerners weren't happy and did not want to have him as president.
Who were the nominees and who won the election of 1860?
300
The Kansas-Nebraska Act opened new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
300
The period before the Civil War.
What is Antebellum?
300
Slaves would usually work on the field, have a pair of cloth each year, make the food by themselves, get to rest and play after sunset, went to African American church, not get to have any source of education, and usually get physical activities for punishment.
What was it like to be a slave?
400
Cotton became the potentially lucrative staple crop in Georgia due to the new invention called 'cotton gin', education wasn't that important so it was very poor, and Baptists and Methodists in the South split from the Baptists and the Methodists in the North over the issues of Slavery.
How did the Antebellum effected in Georgia?
400
The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. It declared that all runaway slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters.
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
400
Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
400
Network of homes, farms, and churches from the South to the North and Canada where runaway slaves could rest and hide from slavery.
What is Underground RailRoad?
400
Leaders were Jefferson Davis(President of CSA), Alexander Stephens(Vice President of CSA), Robert E. Lee(Confederate General), Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, PGT Beauregard, and Braxton Bragg.
Who were the new leaders of the Confederate States of America?
500
The northern soil and climate favored smaller farmsteads rather than large plantations. Industry flourished, fueled by more abundant natural resources than in the South, and many large cities were established (New York was the largest city with more than 800,000 inhabitants). In other hand, The fertile soil and warm climate of the South made it ideal for large-scale farms and crops like tobacco and cotton. Because agriculture was so profitable few Southerners saw a need for industrial development.
What are the differences between Union and Confederacy during the Antebellum?
500
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills passed in the United States in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War.
What is Compromise of 1850?
500
John Brown was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.
Who is John Brown?
500
The act of pulling or breaking away.
What is secession?
500
Confederate States of America consisted of the governments of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860-1861, Convinced that their way of life, based on slavery, was irretrievably threatened by the election of President Abraham Lincoln and seceded from the Union during the following months. Their first capital was the Richmond.
Who, when, where, why did the secession took place? What was their first capital?
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