Slavery and the Cotton Economy
Demand for this crop, which had replaced rice and tobacco as the leading cash crop in the American South, did not shrink in the early 1800's.
Cotton
Known by various nicknames, this person led many Southern slaves to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
This abolitionist published the newspaper, "The Liberator."
William Lloyd Garrison
This crisis arose because Southerners, specifically in South Carolina, were opposed to a tariff on British goods.
The Nullification Crisis
This famous actor narrated the film we watched in class, "Slavery and the Making of America"
Morgan Freeman
Working slowly was an example of this type of resistance to slavery.
Passive Resistance
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 claimed that slaves were happy in their condition and that the Bible condoned and encouraged slavery.
James Henry Hammond
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
The Missouri Compromise was made in this year.
1820
Running away was an example of this type of resistance to slavery.
Active Resistance
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 compromise said that Maine would join the Union as a free state and Missouri would join as a slave state.
The Missouri Compromise
Maine was made out of territory formerly part of this New England state.
Massachusetts
This man, a preacher, led one of the few large scale slave revolts in the U.S. South.
Nat Turner
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 region was more industrial than the others.
The North
As per the Missouri Compromise, all lands west of Missouri, north of this line, would be guaranteed to be free territory.
36 degrees, 30 minutes
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
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 region was based on agricultural products.
The South
I am from this mid-atlantic state, known as the Keystone State.
Pennsylvania