Abolition
What is the definition of "Abolition" based on our Division unit?
+100 points if you can give the definition of Popular Sovereignty.
What is officially ending or abolishing a system, practice, or institution, especially slavery.
What is people of a region have the right to make decisions about their own government and laws through voting?
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was a member of this political party.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What was the effect of the invention of the Cotton Gin on the South?
This compromise, passed in 1820 prohibited slavery north of the 36°30' parallel, allowed Missouri to join the Union as a slave state, and Maine to join as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This courageous woman, also known as the "Moses of her people," was a prominent conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman
This abolitionist famously led a raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 in an attempt to start a slave rebellion.
Who is John Brown
This presidential candidate was a Northern Democrat and supported popular sovereignty to decide on slavery in the new territories.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
What were the 3 main modes of transportation in the North by 1860?
1. Canals
2. Railroads
3. Surfaced roadways
This compromise admitted California as a free state, allowed Utah and New Mexico territories to exercise popular sovereignty on slavery, and enforced a stricter Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Harriet Tubman's efforts on the Underground Railroad led to the rescue of approximately how many enslaved individuals?
What is around 300 slaves?
This abolitionist often spoke out about slavery on the Senate floor and was even beaten with a cane for his claims about pro-slavery politicians.
Who is Charles Sumner?
This presidential candidate represented the Constitutional Union Party, which aimed to preserve the Union and avoid the issues of slavery altogether.
Who is John Bell?
What are waterfalls?
This legislative act passed in 1854 allowed settlers in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery within their borders.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This is the name given to the individuals who guided enslaved people to freedom in the North.
Who are conductors?
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary, an influential figure in the abolitionist movement, was the first African American woman in North America to do what profession(s)?
What is become a lawyer and publish a newspaper?
This presidential candidate represented the Southern Democrats and supported the idea of slavery in the new territories.
Who is John Breckinridge?
What crops were grown in both the North and the South?
What is corn and wheat?
This famous Supreme Court decision declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and stated enslaved people were not US citizens and could not sue in federal court.
What is Dred Scott V Sandford?
Name at least 3 struggles Harriet Tubman faced while she was enslaved?
1. Suffered a brain injury that caused Narcolepsy.
2. She was poorly fed.
3. Had to complete household tasks at a young age.
4. Fear of being sold to a plantation further South.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
Why was the Election of 1860 such a crucial moment in the events leading up to the secession of the Southern states and the Civil War?
Southerners were worried that Abraham Lincoln's opposition to slavery would put their lifestyle and financial concerns at risk because they depended on slave labor.
How did the economies of the North and the South work together?
The South would produce and transport cotton to the Northern textile mills, where it would be manufactured and sold.
This controversial law passed in 1850 required citizens to assist in the capture and return of escaped enslaved individuals, regardless if they were in a free state.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Levi Coffin, a prominent abolitionist, earned the nickname "President of the Underground Railroad" for his role in aiding escaping slaves.
What term was used to describe his home, a prominent safe house?
What is "Grand Central Station"?