Odes, Overs, and Undertakers
This 18th-century poet wrote “On Virtue,” a poem about the pursuit of moral excellence and the role of virtue in the afterlife.
Who is Phyllis Wheatley?
This number of slaves would be counted as part of the population for representation purposes according to the Three-Fifths Compromise.
What is three?
This abolitionist made the famous statement that “Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S.,” arguing that African Americans earned the right to citizenship through their service.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This piece of legislation, introduced by Henry Clay, included the admission of California as a free state and established territorial governments for Utah and New Mexico.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Due to multiple events in his childhood, John Brown developed this strong conviction, which led him to take violent action against slavery.
What is abolitionism?
This former enslaved boxer from Virginia won his freedom through a series of prizefights, later challenging British champion Tom Cribb in two famous bouts.
Who is Tom Molineaux?
The Three-Fifths Compromise was primarily authored to appease this region of states
What is the South?
This president, who issued General Order 233, is known for his leadership and for the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 introduced this principle, allowing the residents of each territory to decide the issue of slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
John Brown’s 1859 raid on this Virginia town aimed to seize weapons from a federal arsenal and incite a slave rebellion.
What is Harpers Ferry?
In 1856, this woman, who had escaped slavery in Kentucky, was involved in a tragic incident where she killed her child to prevent her from being returned to slavery.
Who is Margaret Garner?
The Three-Fifths Compromise settled the debate over this, which counting the enslaved people in the population.
What is representation and taxation?
General Order 233 protected the African American soldiers in this military branch during the Civil War.
What is the Union Army?
This amendment in the Compromise of 1850 required the more stringent enforcement of laws to return runaway slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
John Brown’s execution was seen as a martyrdom by abolitionists, but as a Northern conspiracy by the South, further inflaming tensions between the North and South in the lead-up to this conflict.
What is the Civil War?
Phyllis Wheatley was thought to have exchanged letters or was at least an admirer of this prominent figure of the American Revolution.
Who is George Washington?
The Three-Fifths Compromise was part of this document, which created the structure for the U.S. government in 1787.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
General Order 233 threatened this if the Confederacy treated an African American prisoner of war as an escaped slave by selling or enslaving him
What is subjecting Confederate prisoners of war to retaliation, including enslavement or execution?
Southern states believed that the election of Abraham Lincoln would have this effect on the institution of slavery and the expansion of the United States.
What is limiting the expansion of slavery into new territories and states?
John Brown worked with this organization to protect escaped slaves from slave catchers
What is the Underground Railroad?
Phyllis Wheatley had these goals in mind when writing her poem to George Washington
What is praising Washington's leadership and expressing hope that the ideals of freedom from the American Revolution would eventually extend to enslaved African Americans?
Northern states objected to counting slaves for representation because slaves did not have this right, which was essential to full citizenship.
What is the right to vote?
The quote authored by Frederick Douglas mentions these parts of a military uniform that signifies service securing a right to citizenship.
What is the brass letter, U.S., an eagle on his button, a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket?
The Northern and Souther perspectives on slavery by the mid-19th century were economic, political, and social and included these perspectives
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North- viewed slavery as immoral, worried that the extension of slavery into western states would give the southern states disproportionate influence in such areas.
South- Slavery was important to the southern economy, fear that repealing the bill would allow the northern majority would threaten their way of life – and their economic interests.
In Kansas in 1856, John Brown and his sons carried out the Pottawatomie Massacre, killing these individuals who supported slavery.
What is pro-slavery settlers?