Important Figures
Civil Disputes
Movement for Abolition
Civil War
Antebellum Facts
100
This person wrote the book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
100
This made it so that the African population decided the number of representatives for a state, but only as a fraction of a person.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
100
This Black Abolitionist said, "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
100
This only freed states in rebellious southern states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
These were rules set by slave owners that slaves were required to abide by.
What are the slave codes?
200
This person led one of the biggest slave rebellions, causing the increase of harsh conditions for slaves and fear of rebellions in white southerners.
Who is Nat Turner?
200
This facilitated the allowance of California in the Union as a free state, and in return, the Fugitive Slave Act was "more strictly" enforced in the North.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
This allowed William Lloyd Garrison to share his view that slavery should be ended immediately.
What is "The Liberator"?
200
This was one of the first official entirely black unit in the Union during the Civil War.
What is the 54th Regiment?
200
This major cash crop motivated a switch from indentured servitude to slavery to increase profit.
What is tobacco?
300
This person was one of the candidates in the Election of 1860 and the author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas.
300
This enabled the entrance of Maine into the Union as a free state and Missouri into the Union as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
This society's goal was to return freed slaves to Africa.
What is the American Colonization Society?
300
This group was divided on the issue of expanding slavery into the territories.
What is the Democratic party?
300
This trade system involved Europe, Africa and the Americas.
What is Triangular Trade?
400
This person was involved in the federal case against Congress regarding the prohibition of slavery in the territories.
Who is Dred Scott?
400
This prohibited the spread of slavery into the territories acquired from the Mexican war, yet was not passed by Congress.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
400
This autobiography exposed Americans to the horrors and inhumanity of slavery.
What is the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave.
400
This group held a moderate view of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
400
This was originally invented to make harvesting easier, but instead encouraged the use of slavery.
What is the Cotton Gin?
500
This person led the Haitian slave rebellion in the 1790's.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture.
500
This was a proposal to seize Cuba.
What is the Ostend Manifesto.
500
This event contributed to the growth of the abolitionist movement.
What is the 2nd Great Awakening?
500
What battle finally gave Lincoln the initiative to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
What is the battle of Antietam?
500
This set the guidelines for the requirements and introduction of territories into the Union as states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
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