Historical People
Invented the cotton gin
Bonus: What was the month, date, and year Mrs. Audi was born in?
Eli Whitney
Bonus: June 27, 2002
Clause in the Constitution that counted slaves as three-fifths of a person
Bonus: What was the first grade Mrs. Audi taught?
Three-Fifths Compromise
Bonus: Fourth grade
The president that believed slavery would wither away.
Bonus: What number president was he?
Thomas Jefferson
Bonus: Third President
Slavery gradually died out in this part of the country
Bonus: Tell me why this happened
The North
The North had less fields to work and they had more people living there so slaves were not necessary
People that were founded in 1854 to combat slavery
Republican Party
Allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they wanted slavery.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Escaped slave who made 19 journeys into the South to help hundreds of slaves escape.
Harriet Tubman
People who opposed slavery
Abolitionists
Led a slave revolt in Virgina in 1813 that murdered 50 whites.
Nat Turner
Gave slave catchers more authority to chase escaped slaves into the North
Fugitive Slave Act
Elderly, former slave who traveled around the country giving speeches against slavery.
Sojourner Truth
A network of routes and safe houses slaves used to escape
The Underground Railroad
Abolitionist editor of The Liberator newspaper
William Llyod Garrison
Declared that blacks had no rights that whites needed to respect.
Dred Scott Case
Escaped slave whose autobiography was very popular.
Many founding fathers believed this about slavery
It was a necessary evil
Abolitionist who wrote a novel called Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Proposal to prohibit slavery in lands taken from Mexico
Wilmot Proviso
Violent abolitionist who led the raid at Harper's Ferry.
John Brown
A fictional book that depicted the harsh conditions of slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin