Slavery
This type of slavery dehumanized people as a form of "movable property"
What is chattel slavery?
This person thought slavery was like holding a wolf by the ears, despite owning hundreds of slaves.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What two states joined the United States during the Compromise of 1820?
What are Maine and Missouri?
The Republican Party mostly consisted of this group and Abolitionists.
Who are Anti-Slavery people?
Missouri Compromise took place in this year.
What is 1820?
During the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade almost 50% of enslaved people went to this island region.
What is the Caribbean?
This man claimed that slavery was a positive good for both the owner and the enslaved.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
When Texas gained its independence from Mexico it became this for almost 10 years.
What is a country?
This women was a key conductor on the network of safe house, boats, and wagon that took runaway slaves to Canada.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
South Carolina was the first state to succeed from the United States in December of this year.
What is 1860?
By 1860 most enslaved people lived in this region of the United States.
What is the Deep South/Cotton Belt?
This man asked "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This idea, promoted by Stephen Douglas, wanted the territories to decide for themselves whether or not to admit themselves as a slave or free state when joining the United States.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
What Compromise included banning the slave trade in DC, added California as a free state, and made a tougher Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The Mexica American War took place during this three year stretch between Texas and California joining the Union.
What is 1846-1848?
Unlike common misconceptions Africans were _______, not tricked or captured by Europeans on shore during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
What is traded?
This religious revival helped spark the Abolitionist movement.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
By 1860 cotton exports reached ____ % GDP of the nation's exports.
What is 60%?
This line refers to the line of Latitude in the Missouri Compromise that banned slavery in the territories north of Missouri's southern border.
What is the 36'30" line?
Abraham Lincoln Debated Stephen Douglas for Illinois Senate in this year.
What is 1858?
What concept changed family lineage to the mother to ensure legal slave status between a mixed race baby?
What is "Partus sequitur ventrem"?
This man authored the newspaper "The Liberator", an abolitionist newspaper and hired people like Frederick Douglass. He said the Constitution including slavery was the deal made with the Devil.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This President spilt up the Democratic Party by making support for the Kansas Nebraska Act a test of the party.
Who is Franklin Pierce?
Mississippi and others mention Lincoln's election, lack of enforcement over the Fugitive Slave Act and Anti-Slavery Sentiments in the North in these documents.
What are the Secession Documents?
The years the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was banned.
What is 1807-1808?