Slavery in America
What was the primary labor system used on Southern Plantations?
What is Slavery?
This 1820 compromise allowed Missouri in as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Who led the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859?
Who is John Brown?
What court case ruled that African Americans were not U.S. citizens?
Who is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
What term describes people who wanted to end slavery?
Who are abolitionists?
What invention caused an increase in demand for enslaved labor?
What is the Cotton Gin?
This 1850 law required citizens to return runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Who was a famous formerly enslaved abolitionist speaker and writer?
Who is Frederick Douglas?
What happened in “Bleeding Kansas”?
What is violence over whether Kansas would allow slavery?
Who is known as a hero and a martyr?
Who is John Brown?
What term describes the South’s dependence on agriculture and the North’s on industry?
What is Sectionalism?
What compromise introduced the idea of popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What did abolitionists want to do about slavery?
What is end it completely?
Who debated against Abraham Lincoln?
Who is Stephen Douglas?
Who is known for her advocacy for the mentally ill and her work in reforming mental asylums improving living conditions and treatment of individuals?
Who is Dorothea Dix?
What is the name of the escape system that helped enslaved people flee to the North?
What is the Underground Railroad?
What law repealed the Missouri Compromise?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Who was a powerful abolitionist and women's rights activist in the 19th century that advocated for the end of slavery and for equal rights for women?
Who is Sojourner Truth?
Name 3 events that increased tensions before the Civil War.
I would accept any 3 such as- Fugitive Slave Act, Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown's Raid, Dred Scott Decision, Lincoln's Election?
Who is known as the "Father of the Common School Movement"?
Who is Horace Mann?
What year did the Nat Turner Rebellion occur?
What is 1831?
Who was the President that signed the Fugitive Slave Act?
Who is President Fillmore?
Name two different ways enslaved people resisted slavery.
What are running away or revolting?
What was known as "King"
What is Cotton?
Who was more dependent on slavery, the North or the South?
Who is the South?