John Brown I
John Brown II
Increasing Tensions
Slavery and Statehood
Miscellaneous
100
One who believes that slavery is wrong and opposes it.
Abolitionist
100
The place that John Brown raided on October 16, 1859.
What is Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
100
The nickname given to the state of Kansas because of all of the violence that occured there in the battle over slavery.
What is Bleeding Kansas.
100
A network of houses and other places used to help slaves escape to the North or Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad.
100
Who provided "cheap" labor for the industrial factories of the North, so they didn't have much need for slaves there?
Immigrants
200
Name one of the two men who influenced Brown to be an abolitionist. Hint: I'm not talking about his father.
Who are Laurence Hickok and/or William Lloyd Garrison.
200
One of John Brown's followers whom he put in charge of the raid on Harpers Ferry.
What is Osborn P. Anderson
200
Growing this created the need for slaves in the South. It was the #1 export in America in the early to mid 1800's.
What is cotton.
200
In 1819, how many states were in the United States. Also, how many were "free" states and how many were "slave" states?
22. What are 11 free states and 11 slave states.
200
A person who suffers death in support of a belief, cause, or principle.
What is a Martyr.
300
The state that Brown came to in an effort to make it a free state. Two of Brown's sons were captured in this state.
What is Kansas.
300
The reason John Brown was raiding Harpers Ferry.
What is to take control of the Federal Arsenal and lead a slave rebellion.
300
The principle that states the rights and responsibilities of the states should take predence over the rights and responsibilities of the federal government.
What are states' rights.
300
The 1820 agreement in Congress whereby Missouri entered the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Slavery was not allowed in any states formed north of a line even with Missouri's southern border.
What is the Missouri Compromise.
300
Founded in 1833, this group called for the immediate end of slavery in the states.
The American Anti-Slavery Society
400
The man who was sent to capture John Brown by then President James Buchanan.
Who is Colonel Robert E. Lee.
400
The place where John Brown and his group massacred 5 pro-slavery settlers.
What is Pottawatomie Creek.
400
The Massachusetts' Senator who was savagely beaten on the floor of the Senate by Preston Brooks for criticizing Brooks' uncle for believing in slavery.
Who is Charles Sumner.
400
The place that was marked as the turning point in the struggle for Kansas.
What is Osawatomie.
400
Proslavery armed men from Missouri who crossed the state line into Kansas to vote and to frighten antislavery voters away from the polls.
What are Border Ruffians.
500
Where John Brown retreated to before he was captured. Also, the city that Brown's trial was held.
What is the engine house. What is Charles Town.
500
The three crimes that John Brown was convicted and hanged for on December 2, 1859.
What are murder, treason, and insurrection.
500
The North wanted and needed the federal government to regulate these three things:
What are immigration, transportation, and industry.
500
The agreement in Congress whereby California was admitted to the Union as a free state, part of Texas was given to New Mexico, the slave trade was banned in the District of Columbia, and slavery from this moment on will be decided by popular sovereignty.
What is the Compromise of 1850.
500
The right of those living within a territory to decide upon an issue, such as weather or not to allow slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty.
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