the main conductor of the Underground Railroad who helped 300 slaves escape to the North for freedom
Who was Harriet Tubman?
100
This compromise accepted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
100
the state where Abraham Lincoln was born
What is Kentucky?
200
the idea that states, not the government, should make the final decisions on matters that affect them
What is states' rights?
200
This part of the Union opposed slavery.
What is the North?
200
an enslaved man who wrote anti-slavery literature and gave speeches to white audiences about his experiences with slavery
Who was Frederick Douglass?
200
This compromise gave popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska so that they could decide if they wanted slavery.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
Abraham Lincoln's competitor in the running for Senate in 1858
What is Stephen Douglas?
300
a territory that forbid slavery
What is a free state?
300
The economy of this part of the Union was more agricultural.
What is the South?
300
an enslaved man who asked the Supreme Court for his freedom because he once lived in a free state and free territory
Who was Dred Scott?
300
This compromise allowed popular sovereignty in new territories so that they could decide if they wanted slavery.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
300
Abraham Lincoln's competitors in the running as President in 1860
Who was Stephen Douglas and John Breckinridge?
400
loyalty to one part of the country
What is sectionalism?
400
This part of the Union supported political decisions made by the government.
What is the North?
400
the author of The Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper demanding that all slaves be freed
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
400
The invisible line that permitted northern territories as free states and southern territories as slave states was created with this compromise.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
400
what Abraham Lincoln considered slavery
What is a social, moral, and political evil?
500
a series of hiding places and escape routes to bring enslaved people out of the South
What is the Underground Railroad?
500
What was the reason why the South needed more slaves in the 1800s?
The invention of the cotton gin helped increase cotton production, so plantation owners more slaves to pick cotton so they could produce more cotton and make a larger profit.
500
the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel depicting the suffering of slavery
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
500
Why were northerners upset with the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
It ignored the invisible line of northern territories as free states made in the Missouri Compromise.
500
Why did some southern states secede from the Union after Abraham Lincoln's election as President?
They thought he would make the government too strong and take away their rights of slavery.