This word meant a movement to do away with slavery.
(p. 267)
What is abolitionism?
100
A slave from Missouri that sued for his freedom before the Supreme Court.
(p. 273)
Who is Dred Scott?
100
This escaped slave repeatedly returned to the South to help other slaves escape along the Underground Railroad.
(p. 267)
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
The one piece of literature that contributed most to the abolitionist cause in the years prior to the Civil War was
(p. 271)
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
Someone who wrote an influential novel depicting the life of slaves.
(p. 271)
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
The 1854 act allowing settlers in western lands to decide for or against slavery for themselves was indirectly responsible for A) the firing on Fort Sumter or B) bloodshed in Kansas
What is bloodshed in Kansas?
200
TRUE or FALSE: Dred Scott was able to escape slavery because he had lived on free soil.
(p. 273)
What is FALSE?
200
The first state to secede from the Union was
What is South Carolina?
200
The term denotes Southern extremists who threatened secession if the Republicans won the 1860 election.
(p. 275)
What are fire-eaters?
200
TRUE or FALSE: The United States was the last major western nation to ban foreign slave trade.
(p. 265)
What is TRUE?
300
The Confederate States of America chose as its first president
(p. 276)
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
TRUE or FALSE: Lincoln ordered the resupplying of Fort Sumter.
(p. 278)
What is TRUE?
300
The concept that settlers should decide the slavery issue themselves.
(p. 272)
What is popular sovereignty
300
TRUE or FALSE:Some Southern states made it illegal to teach slaves to read and write.
(p. 267)
What is TRUE?
300
The Republican candidate in the election of 1860.
(p. 275)
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
TRUE or FALSE: The North depended on foreign trade to provide much of its industrial goods.
(p. 280)
What is FALSE?
400
This novel was written in 1852 it helped to create a great rift between the North and the South.
(p. 271)
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
400
TRUE or FALSE:The South reasoned that because the states had voluntarily joined the Union, the states should be able to secede from the Union if they chose.
(p. 277)
What is TRUE?
400
He was the leading black abolitionist who traveled and gave lectures against slavery.
(p. 267)
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
In 1857 the Supreme Court decided a very important case regarding slavery and involving an individual...
(p. 273)
Who is Dred Scott?
500
TRUE or FALSE: The chief reason slavery grew in the South was that the agricultural crops grown there; required many laborers.
(pp. 261-62)
What is TRUE?
500
The four border slave states were?
(p. 279)
What are Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware, and Maryland?
500
TRUE or FALSE: Lifestyles in the North and the South were quite similar before the Civil War.
(pp. 261-64)
What is FALSE?
500
Who led the military force that captured John Brown at Harper's Ferry?
(p. 274)
Who is Robert E. Lee?
500
"Bleeding Kansas" was the result of the competition between pro-slavery and antislavery groups for control of the territory.
(p. 272)