Slavery and the Cotton Economy
Working slowly was an example of this type of resistance to slavery.
Passive Resistance
Abraham Lincoln is sometimes quoted as saying to this author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, "So you are the woman that wrote the book that made this great war."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This abolitionist published the newspaper, "The Liberator."
William Lloyd Garrison
This compromise said that Maine would join the Union as a free state and Missouri would join as a slave state.
The Missouri Compromise
This famous actor narrated the film we watched in class, "Slavery and the Making of America"
Morgan Freeman
This famously named line divided free states from slave states and is the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
The Mason-Dixon Line
This man was born a slave in Maryland, but escaped to the North and became one of the leading voices for the Abolition movement.
Frederick Douglas
This Southern advocate for slavery absurdly claimed that slaves were happy in their condition and that the Bible condoned and encouraged slavery.
James Henry Hammond
This crisis arose because Southerners, specifically in South Carolina, were opposed to a tariff on British goods.
The Nullification Crisis
The Missouri Compromise was made in this year.
1820
This man, a preacher, led one of the few large scale slave revolts in the U.S. South.
Nat Turner
She spent seven years hiding in the cramped attic of her free grandmother before escaping to the North and penning her autobiography, "Incidents In The Life of A Slave Girl."
Harriet Jacobs
Frederick Douglas said that this day "reveals to me, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he (a slave) is the constant victim"
The 4th of July
This party, which supported Andrew Jackson, stood for a nation of small independent-owned farms and opposed a National Bank.
The Democratic Party
Maine was made out of territory formerly part of this New England state.
Massachusetts
This book, a fictionalized tale of life on a large, slave-holding plantation, helped make Northerners more aware fo the conditions of slavery in the South.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Born a free man in the North, this man was kidnapped by slave catchers in New York and sold into slaver in the South. (Many suffered this fate, but his account has been studied extensively).
Solomon Northup
The American Colonization Society helped to found this nation in West Africa as a haven for slaves.
Liberia
This now defunct political party favored a national bank, protective tariffs and taxation to provide public schools.
The Whig Party
This "Tariff of Abominations", which led to the 1832 Nullification Crisis was passed in this year.
1828
By 1860, there were roughly this many slaves held in the southern United States, up from 1.2 million in 1810.
4 Million
This young man endured the torment of his 'mistress' and watched his 2 young children die as a result of abuse to his wife.
Louis Hughes
In response to abolitionist newspapers and literature, southern pro-slavery citizens violated federal law by restricting this these messages from coming through this.
The mail
This compromise during the writing of the Constitution, known by the fraction it employed, determined the counting of slaves for congressional representation and taxation.
The 3/5 Compromise
As per the Missouri Compromise, all lands west of Missouri, north of this line, would be guaranteed to be free territory.
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