SLAVERY
Before the importation of slaves was banned in the U.S., where did most slaves come from originally?
Africa
What was the name for the reform movement that sought to ban slavery?
Abolitionism
Due to a food shortage in their native country, which European peoples experienced a mass immigration to the North in the 1800s?
The Irish
What did the 1820 Missouri Compromise ban North of the 36th (and a half) parallel?
Slavery
Harriet Tubman, a former slave and abolitionist, was a leading figure in what network that helped slaves get to the North?
The Underground Railroad
Where did most enslaved Blacks work before the Civil War?
Plantations
This former slave became a best-selling author and famous speaker, providing insight into life as a slave in the U.S. South.
Frederick Douglass
The vast majority of senators that represented the Southern states were of which political party?
Democratic
What did The Fugitive Slave Act required citizens to do if directed by law enforcement?
Help Capture Escaped Slaves
Which crop quickly became the biggest money-maker in the South?
Cotton
Name 3 states where slavery was illegal prior to the Civil War.
Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maine, Ohio, California, Vermont, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were the two most prominent figures in which reform movement of the 1800s?
Women's Suffrage
Name two major rights that free Black men in the North had that a Black slave in the South didn't have.
Can work for wages; can learn to read and write; can vote; freedom of movement; could testify in court; could own property
As a result of the Compromise of 1850, which state joined the Union as a free state?
California
After Abraham Lincoln was elected to the Presidency in 1860, what was the first state to secede from the Union later that year?
South Carolina
Name 3 states where slavery was legal prior to the Civil War.
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee
Reformist Dorothea Dix is best remembered for her efforts to improve conditions for which largely misunderstood class of people?
The Mentally Ill
What was the main type of job that women who worked in Northern factories had?
Seamstresses
According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, how would the issue of slavery be decided in Kansas & Nebraska when they became states?
By Popular Sovereignty
After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854, what new political party was formed by Anti-Slave activists?
Republican
Within 10%, what percentage of Southern whites owned at least one slave in 1850 according to the article you read on KhanAcademy?
~ 25%
What important field did reformer Horace Mann seek to change for the better in the 1800s?
Public Education
What invention allowed Southern workers to clean cotton 50 times faster than by hand?
Cotton Gin
Which previous act of Congress did the Kansas-Nebraska Act effectively ignore?
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
What was the name of the slave who sued his owner for his freedom, bringing the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857?
Dred Scott