Film Questions
The year the fugitive slave action was passed
What is 1850?
A wave of religious revivals led by evangelical Protestants
What was the Second Great Awakening?
This political party took a national stance against the expansion of slavery in 1854
What is the Republican Party?
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The only Confederate official executed as a war criminal
Who is Henry Wirz?
The unit that Frederick Douglass' two sons served in during the Civil War
What is the 54th Massachusets Infantry Regiment?
The U.S military forcibly removing Seminoles from their land caused this event
What is the Second Seminole War (of the 1830s)
Harriet Tubman served in this role during the 1850s and helped lead slaves to freedom
What is a conductor of the Underground Railroad?
The first state to secede from the union
What is South Carolina?
The only woman to receive the Medal of Honor
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
The place where Frederick Douglass was born
What is Tuckahoe, Maryland?
The forcible movement of Cherokee from their land in the Southeast to Indian Territory
What is the Trail of Tears?
This event pushed the issue of slavery into the national debate
What is Westward Expansion?
This senator was beaten brutally on the Senate floor during the secession crisis
Who is Charles Sumner?
This people group was divided during the Civil War
What are Indigenous People?
The average lifespan for an enslaved person who was purchased in the Chesapeake and brought to Missippi or Lousiana
What is seven years?
This social movement, rooted in Protestant churches, gained traction in the early 1800s. Its goal was to address the public and social ills of drinking and alcohol.
What was the temperance movement?
An abolitionist who primarily worked in the Kansas-Nebraska and Territories and led at Harpers Ferry
Who is John Brown?
This act, passed in 1854, created Kansas and pushed the ideal of popular sovereignty
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The United State's largest employer at the end of the Civil War?
What was the federal government?
What is The NorthStar?
This event caused the Anglo-American population to increase dramatically in California
What is the Gold Rush?
A series of five laws that
* Admitted California as a Free State
*Created Territorial governments in Utah and New Mexico
* Established a new boundary between the US and Mexico
*Abolished the slave trade in D.C
* The Fugitive Slave Act
What is the Compromise of 1850
A court case that ruled that declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and denied the legality of Black citizenship in America
What is the Dred Scott Case?
The first established group of African American soldiers to fight in the Civil War
What is the First Kansas Colored Volunteers?