Rebellion and Bloodshed
This revolt took place in 1831, was lead by a slave and saw 55 men, women and children killed.
What is Nat Turner's Revolt?
This term refers to the period prior to the Civil War.
What is Antebellum?
This law was strengthened in the Compromise of 1850 to win support from the Southern States.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
She was a former slave that became a leader in the Underground Railroad and later served as a spy for the Union as well as a Civil War nurse.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
In what year did the Mexican-American War end?
What is 1848?
This raid took place in 1859 at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
What is John Brown's Raid?
This term was used by pro-slavery individuals as a way to insult the factory workers and owners of the North.
What are wage slaves?
This Supreme Court Decision in 1857 effectively opened slavery up to the entire nation by declaring that slaves were property.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
He was a former slave that became a prominent abolitionist as well as a famous speaker, publisher, and author.
Who is Fredrick Douglas?
This is the name of the treaty signed to end the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The Senator that was insulted and mocked in a speech to Congress over his pro-slavery stance was from what state?
What is South Carolina?
This part of the triangular slave trade was marked by the horrific conditions and high mortality rates of slaves.
What is the Middle Passage?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act nullified the Missouri Compromise by using this method to decide if slavery should be allowed.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
She is famous for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852 after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law.
The Compromise of 1850 allowed slavery in what new territories?
What are the Utah and New Mexico Territories?
Senator Charles Sumner from Massachusetts was beaten over the head with a cane by what Representative of Congress?
Who is Preston Brooks?
This secret network of routes and safe houses was used to free thousands of slaves.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This Senator was know for finding the middle ground and for coming up with both the Missouri Compromise as well as the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
He became the Senator of Illinois in 1858, authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and lost in the 1860 Presidential election to Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
In order to pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act the South supported this economic boost for the Northern States.
What was a Northern Transcontinental Railroad?
Though Preston Brooks died shortly after the caning incident in 1856, Charles Sumner served for this many years after the incident.
What is 18 years?
This term refers to someone that wants to abolish slavery entirely.
What is an abolitionist?
Northern States would use this article of the Constitution to defend the supremacy of federal laws over state laws.
What is Article VI?
He became the first and only President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
With a platform that opposed the expansion of slavery, the Republican Party was formed in what year?
What is 1854?