Abolitionists
An abolitionist was someone that wanted to:
end slavery
Which abolitionist believed that violence was the only way to end slavery?
John Brown
Henry Clay helped create the _________ of ______ to make sure free states and slave states would keep balance and peace.
Compromise of 1850
How many men ran for president in the Election of 1860?
Where did slavery exist in America? (Which part?)
The South
Which abolitionist worked on the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Who wrote the book, Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What territories saw violence over the issue of slavery?
Kansas & Nebraska Territories
The Election of 1860 showed how _______ the United States was.
a. united
b. afraid
c. divided
c. divided
Which candidate in the Election of 1860 was completely against slavery?
Abraham Lincoln
Which abolitionist was an escaped slave who wrote biographies about his life?
Frederick Douglass
How did Frederick Douglass learn how to read and write, even though slaves weren't allowed to learn these things?
His owners wife taught him.
What nickname did the Kansas Territory get do to the fighting?
Bleeding Kansas
Who won the election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
Why did slavery exist in the South but not in the North?
How did Harriet Beecher Stowe's book make her an "abolitionist?"
It made people aware of how cruel slavery was.
What did Harriet Tubman threaten to do to slaves that changed their minds about escaping?
She threatened to shoot them.
The ability of the PEOPLE living in a territory decide whether or not they will allow slavery is called:
a. Sovereign Decisiveness
b. Popular Sovereignty
c. Choosing Population
b. Popular Sovereignty
Name one person that Abraham Lincoln defeated in the Election of 1860
John Breckinridge
Stephen A. Douglas
John Bell
Which 2 countries started bringing slaves from Africa to the Americas?
Spain and Portugal
Who did William Lloyd Garrison mentor, or coach, in the abolitionist/women's suffrage movement?
Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony
Which abolitionist published the newspaper called, "The Liberator?"
William Lloyd Garrison
What was one part of the Compromise of 1850 that made SLAVE states and FREE states happy?
Slave States - Enforced Fugitive Slave Laws
Free States - Ended slave trade in Washington, D.C.
What did the south threaten to do if Abraham Lincoln won the election?
Secede
Why did European countries start to bring Africans to the Americas to be slaves?
Because the native people who were slaves were dying off