"Free or Not to Free, That is the Question"
Written in 1852, this novel exposed the horror of slavery; in the south, it sparked denial, was considered offensive, and was banned, while in the north, it was popular and spurred the abolitionist movement.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
He was dubbed "The Great Compromiser."
Who was Henry Clay?
The primary cash crops of the southern agricultural economy.
What were Cotton and Tobacco?
Belonging to the period before the American Civil War.
What is Antebellum?
I was a runaway slave who used the underground railroad to escape, only to later return to the south to lead ver 300 slaves to freedom, including my family. I am the most famous underground railroad conductor, dubbed the Moses of my people.
Who was Harriett Tubman?
A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery advocates that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory; the dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The compromise added Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and added the Missouri Compromise line (36 degree latitude), declaring any part of the Louisiana territory north of the line free.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The belief that a state's interests should take precedence over the interests of the national government and the primary cause of the civil war.
What is a State's Rights?
A person who believed in abolishing slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
I won the 1860 election to become the sixteenth president of the United States; I later issue the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in the south.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
A slave preacher from Virgina who led an 1831 revolt that resulted in the deaths of fifty whites and numerous slaves.
Who was Nat Turner?
The compromise that admitted California as a free state, added the Fugitive slave law, solved a border dispute between New Mexico and Texas, and added Popular Sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Although slavery may have ended, this person invented a machine that perpetuated the slave period.
Who is Eli Whitney and what is the cotton gin?
The foundation of the southern economy.
What is agriculture (and slavery)?
I wrote a wildly debated novel about slavery, and Lincoln implied that I started the Civil War.
Who was Harriet Beacher Stowe?
A radical abolitionist who claimed to be sent by god to end slavery, he led a raid on Harper's Ferry that resulted in his execution.
Who was John Brown?
Part of the Compromise of 1850, this law forced Northerners who new about runaway slaves to report the slave to his or her owner.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Roger Taney did not rule in favor of this case.
What was the Dred Scott case?
An arms storehouse, like the one at Harper's Ferry.
What is an Arsenal?
I was a self-educated slave who escaped in 1838 and became the best-known abolitionist speaker, editing an anti-slavery weekly called the North Star.
Who was Frederick Douglas?
A case in which a slave from Missouri, claimed he was free because he had traveled and lived with his owner in Illinois and Wisconsin- which were both free. The supreme court ruled that he had no right to file suit as a slave, slaves were property, and congress had no right to ban slavery in any part of the country.
What is the Dred Scott case?
Part of the compromise of 1850, it allowed the people of each state to vote to be a free state or a slave state.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Failed idea to make land won in the Mexican-American War free from slavery
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Two political parties such as the Free-Soil Party and Republican Party
What is an antislavery party?
I was the Illinois senator who debated with Lincoln over slavery to win the Illinois legislature.
Who was Stephen Douglas?